Lucy McEachern Commission

Apart from Lucy McEachern preparing for her exhibition at Blenheim Gallery which is on now she also undertook this year a major commission for the township of Linton in Victoria. A maquette of this sculpture is in Lucy’s current exhibition at Blenheim Gallery. 

Dr. Vera Scantelbury Brown OBE. 

A work by Lucy McEachern was commissioned for the Avenue of Honour in the township of Linton Victoria.

Dr Scantlebury was appointed resident medical officer at the Melbourne Hospital. In 1915 she joined the resident staff of the Children's Hospital.

For the next three years she performed a herculean task coping with staff shortages and other difficulties due to wartime conditions. In 1917 she sailed to England and was attached to the Royal Army Medical Corps as assistant surgeon to Dr L. Garrett Anderson at Endell Street Military Hospital.

Returning in 1919 she was given many honorary appointments to different hospitals and institutions including the Queen Victoria Hospital for Women and Children, the Women's and Children's hospitals, the

For the next three years she performed a herculean task coping with staff shortages and other difficulties due to wartime conditions.

In 1917 she sailed to England and was attached to the Royal Army Medical Corps as assistant surgeon to Dr L. Garrett Anderson at Endell Street Military Hospital.

Returning in 1919 she was given many honorary appointments to different hospitals and institutions including the Queen Victoria Hospital for Women and Children, the Women's and Children's hospitals, the Victorian Baby Health Centres Association and the Free Kindergarten Union of Victoria.

Dr Scantlebury Brown's work in pioneering the three fields of infant welfare, ante-natal and pre-school care was arduous. Often confronted by apathy or obstruction and frustrated by rivalries between the two streams of the infant welfare movement, she needed all her dedication and skill to overcome them.

Deeply respected for her professional abilities and highly regarded as a generous, warm, kindly human being, she was appointed O.B.E. in 1938.

Lucy McEachern's third exhibition has opened at Blenheim Gallery and Garden on Friday 22 September joined by fellow artist friend Sarah Gabriel with works on paper.