Portrait – Moomba Queen – Marita Jones 1987

VAN DER TOORREN, Bob

Registration number

1284040

Artist/maker

VAN DER TOORREN, Bob

Title

Portrait – Moomba Queen – Marita Jones

Production date

1987

Medium

photographic paper

Dimensions (H x W x D)

55 x 45 cm (framed)

Credit line

By courtesy of Bob VAN DER TOORREN Hon. L.M. A.I.P.P. A.R.M.I.T. of Block Arcade Studios
City of Melbourne Art and Heritage Collection

Keywords

Moomba, Queen, Portrait, Marita Jones, Bob Van der Toorren, 1987

Summary

Framed colour studio portrait of 1987 Moomba Queen, Marita Jones. Jones was the last Moomba Queen crowned, as in the wake of disquiet regarding the gender politics of the system of King and Queen, this royal Moomba tradition was renovated, with the Moomba Monarch introduced in 1988. The Monarch system lasted until 1999, its demise precipitated by the controversy of announcing Zig and Zag as the Monarchs for that year.