O R Y C O U N C I L I S T O F H N E S W T H
7TH TO THE 15TH OF SEPTEMBER 2013
History Week 2013 P A G E I PRINCIPAL PARTNER
MAJOR PARTNERS
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THE HISTORY COUNCIL OF NSW WELCOMES YOU TO
CULTURAL PARTNERS HISTORY WEEK 2013
Driving humanity; reflecting change; imagining reality. In the image MEDIA PARTNERS conscious 21st Century photographs shape the world. How has the development of the visual changed, informed and sculpted society?
How do historians use art and photography to inform their research? Who were the original mad men of the advertising industry?
BEVERAGE PARTNERS Who were our image makers? People have long manipulated their images and all cultures have created their view of the world through visual representations. History Week 2013 will bring the past into view through the frame of images.
History Week 2013 P A G E 1 E M O C L E W E M O C L E W FROM THE PREMIER FROM THE PRESIDENT
I am pleased to lend my support to History Welcome to History Week 2013. This year’s Week 2013 as it highlights the importance theme is Picture This, a phrase that invites of history and contributes to our understanding participants to compare past and present of our social and cultural foundations. places as visualised through art, photography, film and their own imaginations. The images Picture This is set to reflect how visual captured and recalled provide complex representations continue to influence and evidence of the past, of what we have lost and of shape modern day society on a daily basis. what we have gained. Over the last fifty years As a universally understood and accessible History has continued to broaden its horizons format, imagery has become an integral part of how we see the world. to embrace a more complex understanding of the past that extends to With the rapid nature and turnaround in which images are circulated ordinary and everyday people, places and practices, as well as the high in today’s society, it is easy to forget how far this technology has come. profile events and people deemed to have caused dramatic changes to our history. Visual representations provide powerful and complex sets I am sure this exhibition will take us on a detailed journey of the of evidence relating not only to extraordinary events and people but evolution of imagery and I commend the History Council of NSW also in relation to popular culture and ordinary people. They help us to for its continued dedication to the promotion of history in NSW. understand the great differences that exist between then and now. On behalf of the NSW Government I wish you the very best for This year the launch of History Week will celebrate and commemorate History Week 2013. one of the great Sydney Bohemian institutions, The Artists’ Ball. We are delighted to be presenting a recreation of an artists’ ball that Barry O’Farrell MP occurred in the ballroom of David Jones in the very same venue, PREMIER OF NSW decorated in the fairy tale theme of the event 80 years ago. Join us for good music, a 1930s inspired supper buffet and Hendrick’s Gin and De Bortoli Wines. The event will launch our collaboration with five leading Australian artists: Jenny Sages, Wendy Sharpe, Leo Robba, Jane Gillings and Reg Mombassa; who have each created a work inspired by an historical muse. Our muses Dulcie Deamer, Samuel Hood, Florence Broadhurst, Tracey Lee and Martin Sharp all attended the Artists’ Balls at various eras and we are excited to be presenting
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This year’s theme has drawn a positive, popular and creative response and we are proud to present a series of challenging and fascinating talks and exhibits in Sydney, the suburbs and rural NSW. The Annual History Lecture will be delivered by Chris Masters, who will reflect on the role of journalists as historians. I can think of no more appropriate person to speak on this subject because in addition to his distinguished career as an investigative journalist, Chris has written a history of the digger tradition, curated a military history exhibition at the Australian War Memorial, and narrated and written an important television historical documentary, The Years That Made Us.
Other talks and tours will focus on radical Sydney in the seventies, the evolution of the representation of the kangaroo, portrayals of rural and suburban communities, the history of gay Sydney, the history of the Australian tourist industry, and images of Diggers on the Western Front. History Week will also feature the photographic collections of our state and local archives. We are confident that this program will not only be educational but fun as well.
History Week always depends on hard work and important partnerships. We benefit from the support and insights of an Advisory Panel and I take this opportunity to thank its members. We are grateful for the commitment and inspiring contributions of the event organisers. On behalf of the History Council, our heartfelt thanks for your selfless commitment and your boundless enthusiasm. Thanks also to our generous sponsors and supporters listed on the inside cover of this program. Without your support, History Week would not be possible.
Richard Waterhouse
PRESIDENT, HISTORY COUNCIL OF NSW
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THE ARTISTS’ BALL THE YELLOW HOUSE
TYPE: IMMERSIVE EVENT T YPE: EXHIBITION HOSTED BY: THE HISTORY COUNCIL OF NSW HOSTED BY: THE HISTORY COUNCIL OF NSW
It’s an unforgettable night in Sydney 1933. The David Jones ballroom ‘It’s an artist community in the south, in the sun, and probably one of the greatest is festooned with garlands. Harlequins and columbines, Mexicans, pieces of conceptual art ever achieved.’ Martin Sharp, 1971 Persians, cowboys, cowgirls, and an assorted variety of fairies arrive For History Week 2013: Picture This, the HCNSW gets conceptual. in swathes, the Queen of Bohemia amongst them in her leopard skin How can the past be a muse for the present? How can art tell our dress. A carnivale like celebration ensues: there is dancing; there is stories? Five contemporary artists inspired by five historical muses. wild abandon; the spirit of fun takes charge. 80 years on the History Council of NSW presents: The Artists’ Ball: A Fairy Tale Begins. Dulcie Deamer … Jane Gillings; Samuel Hood … Leo Robba; Florence Broadhurst … Jenny Sages; Tracie Lee… Wendy Sharpe; Open the archive …. Experience a moment in time. Martin Sharp … Reg Mombassa Includes a 1930s inspired supper with swing band and performers. Bring your paint brush, no-one enters the Yellow House without leaving Supported by David Jones, Your Community Heritage, their mark. Artworks for sale via silent auction. Supported by David Jones, Fairfax and Roberts, De Bortoli Wines and Hendrick’s Gin. Imprint Street, GDK, Laminex, South Studios and King Street Gallery.
WHEN: 7 September 2013, 08:00PM - 11:30PM WHEN: 8-15 September 2013, store opening hours WHERE: On Seven at David Jones, Elizabeth Street Store, Sydney. Disability Access WHERE: On Seven at David Jones, Elizabeth Street Store, Sydney. Disability Access COST: $125.00 COST: Free CONTAC T: Mandy Kretzschmar, [email protected], 02 9252 8715 CONTAC T: Mandy Kretzschmar, [email protected], 02 9252 8715 WEB: www.artistsball.com.au WEB: historycouncilnsw.org.au/history/post/yellow-house-pop-up-gallery
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In this address Masters reflects on how effectively and insufficiently ANNUAL HISTORY LECTURE 2013: journalists operate as historians. And as Australians approach the THE BATTLELINES OF NEWS AND HISTORY centenary of the Gallipoli landing, he makes a case for the reframing of a foundation story that swells in importance and confusion.
The Annual History Lecture is one of the History Council of NSW’s flagship events. First held in 1996, it was inaugurated by the History Council of NSW to underline the importance of history to current issues and concerns.
A cocktail reception will follow the lecture.
Supported by ABC TV, the Centre for Media History at Macquarie University, Sydney Living Museums and De Bortoli Wines. TYPE: TALK / LECTURE WHEN: 10 September 2013, 06:00PM - 08:30PM HOSTED BY: THE HISTORY COUNCIL OF NSW WHERE: The Mint, 10 Macquarie Street, Sydney. Disability Access Arbitrating the demands of a popular audience and truth is familiar COST: $50.00 General, $45.00 Concession territory for Chris Masters. For a quarter of a century, alongside his CONTAC T: Mandy Kretzschmar, [email protected], 02 9252 8715 Four Corners reports, he made history documentaries for the ABC. WEB: historycouncilnsw.org.au/history/post/annual-history-lecture After a tortuous history of its own, his most recent, a series on Australia in the 1920s and 1930s, ‘The years that made us’, screened in June and July 2013.
This broad experience is synthesised with another direct challenge, of reporting and recording history in the now. Masters has played a prominent role in covering Australia’s longest war, the ongoing conflict in Afghanistan. Beyond producing a series of television documentaries, he has written ‘Uncommon Soldier’, the first comprehensive account of the role and conduct of the Australian soldier on this modern battlefield. Masters has also helped curate for the Australian War Memorial, ‘Afghanistan, the Australian Story’. The exhibition is due for opening in August 2013.
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PRESENTING THE PAST: A SYMPOSIUM The symposium will include keynotes, panels and interactive ON HISTORY AND THE MEDIA workshops. Morning tea and lunch included. Supported by Centre for Media History at Macquarie University, State Library of NSW, History Program, La Trobe University.
WHEN: 10 September 2013 - 11 September 2013, 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM WHERE: State Library of NSW, Macquarie Street, Sydney. Disability Access COST: $140.00 General, $95.00 Concession, CONTACT: Michelle Arrow, [email protected], 02 9850 8840, WEB: historycouncilnsw.org.au/history/post/historyandmedia/
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HOSTED BY: MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY AND THE HISTORY COUNCIL OF NSW
‘The future of history, the survival of history is going to depend at least as much, if not more on the new media and television as on the printed page.’ Simon Schama.
Presenting the Past: A Symposium on History and the Media will bring together history professionals and media practitioners to communicate our mutual interests and exchange ideas, skills and visions for the future. Presenters include media professionals from television production companies, broadcasting and funding agencies, historians, radio producers, journalists, editors and social media specialists. This two-day, hands-on symposium will give established academics, independent scholars, postgraduates and public historians working in heritage, museums and archives the rare opportunity to engage directly with media professionals in a networking and training event.
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WHEN: 7 September 2013 Online WHERE: Online Gallery COST: General, Concession, Family Pass, Free WEB: www.records.nsw.gov.au/state-archives/digital-gallery AUSTRALIAN LEBANESE IN THE PICTURE
TYPE: EXHIBITION A SUITCASE OF TRAVELLING PHOTOGRAPHS HOSTED BY: AUSTRALIAN LEBANESE HISTORICAL SOCIETY
The Lebanese have been part of the fabric of Australian society from TYPE: EXHIBITION before the 1880s. Placing them in that picture, this online digital gallery of HOSTED BY: ROYAL AUSTRALIAN HISTORICAL SOCIETY images are emblematic of the history of Lebanese settlement in Australia. A large suitcase, rescued during the closure of the Kodak factory in The photographs featured include images relating to the immigration Victoria, arrived recently at History House. Containing 43 images on experience, family and social life, military service and business. photograph boards with the words ‘A Kodak Historical Photography Presentation’, the RAHS librarian is trying to solve the mystery of the WHEN: 2 September 2013 journeys taken by this traveling exhibition. The society would like to WHERE: Online Gallery thank Mr K. Gardiner for this special and intriguing donation, and the COST: Free State Library of New South Wales for sharing their expertise in hosting CONTACT: Paul Convy, [email protected] online exhibitions. WEB: www.alhs.org.au/hw2013 WHEN: 7 September 2013 WHERE: Online Gallery THROUGH THE LENS: SNAPSHOTS OF SYDNEY COST: Free WEB: www.rahs.org.au TYPE: EXHIBITION HOSTED BY: STATE RECORDS NSW
State Records NSW will create a digital gallery using images from its collection to give a sensory experience of how the landscape of Sydney has changed over time. The digital gallery will be a pictorial display of the development and creation of three Sydney landmarks: Central Railway Station, The Rocks and Darling Harbour, and how they capture moments in time.
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Blue Mountains Capital District
CAPTURING THE LITHGOW COMMUNITY HALLORAN’S WAY - A CAPITAL IDEA
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This display of photographs, family documents and ephemera donated An exhibition to mark the centenary of Canberra and the 175th to the library will provide a glimpse of the Lithgow community and anniversary of Queanbeyan. When Canberra was declared the new show how the library is involved in preserving community heritage. The Capital, Henry Halloran bought up the nearest freehold land in display will also include entries in the Lithgow Branch of the National Queanbeyan areas, where he planned to build elaborate new cities. This Trust inaugural history competition. The display will be opened on exhibition tells the extraordinary story of this man and displays some Friday, 6 September with an address by Dr Margaret Penson on the role unique and beautifully drawn maps and plans, and also photographs. of the library in preserving Lithgow’s history. WHEN: 5 September 2013, 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM WHEN: 7 September 2013 – 20 September 2013, 09:00AM - 06:00 PM WHERE: The Q Exhibition Space, off Lowe Street, Queanbeyan. (Monday to Friday), 09:00 AM - 12:00 pm (Saturday) Disability Access, Parking Available WHERE: Lithgow Learning Library Centre, 157 Main Street, Lithgow COST: Free COST: Free CONTACT: Peter Conlon, [email protected], 02 6285 6298 CONTACT: Kay Shirt, [email protected], 02 6352 9100
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QUEANBEYAN’S LIVING HISTORY WHY JOHN CURTIN MAY NEVER HAVE BEEN PRIME MINISTER T YPE: EXHIBITION HOSTED BY: QUEANBEYAN HISTORICAL MUSEUM
T YPE: TALK / LECTURE Join the folk at Queanbeyan Museum in celebrating Queanbeyan’s HOSTED BY: GOULBURN MULWAREE LIBRARY 175th Birthday. This new exhibition will give a fascinating insight AND THE HISTORY COUNCIL OF NSW into the development of Queanbeyan through the perspective of In this talk, Andrew Tink will explore why John Curtin may a variety of local people who have been interviewed over the past have never become Prime Minister. On 13 August 1940 three year by Queanbeyan and District Historical Society members for cabinet ministers died in a plane crash. Fatally destabilised, the our 175th Oral History Project. The exhibition will feature portraits conservative government gradually crumbled and a year later, of our oral history interviewees, snippets of Queanbeyan’s history John Curtin became Prime Minister. Although an RAAF officer in their own words and will be accompanied by photographs and was supposed to have been the pilot, rumours circulated that memorabillia chosen by the participants. the Air Minister had been at the controls. But the bodies were badly incinerated, hampering the identification of those in the WHEN: 7 September 2013 - 31 December 2013, 1:00 PM - 04:00 PM cockpit. The RAAF, rather than the police, had taken control (Saturdays and Sundays) of the crash site and had quickly removed the bodies. Forensic WHERE: Queanbeyan Historical Museum, 10 Farrer Place, Queanbeyan photographs of the victims in situ, which had been standard NSW Disability Access. Parking Available. police practice since the 1920s, were not taken by the RAAF. And Free for want of these photos among other things, the identity of the COST: pilot will never be proved beyond reasonable doubt. CONTACT: Kerrie Ruth, [email protected], 02 6297 2730
This talk is presented as part of the Speaker Connect program, a partnership between the History Council of NSW and the Royal Australian Historical Society. Supported by Your Community Heritage.
WHEN: 12 September 2013, 1:30 PM - 2:30 PM WHERE: Goulburn Mulwaree Library, Civic Centre, Bourke Street, Goulburn. Disability Access. Parking Available. COST: Free CONTACT: Lynn Bonomini [email protected], 02 4823 4432
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PHOTO SALVAGE Greater Sydney
T YPE: WORKSHOP BEACH, BUSH AND BATTLERS HOSTED BY: QUEANBEYAN CITY LIBRARY
Prints? Digital? Disks? How much and what details should you T YPE: EXHIBITION include? Find out the best way to store, record and preserve your HOSTED BY: CAMDEN COUNCIL LIBRARY SERVICES precious family photos, documents and records. Join us in the An exhibition of 40 framed photos by Jeff Carter (1928-2010), acclaimed library to hear from specialists in family history and records freelance photo journalist, on loan from the State Library NSW. These followed by morning tea. iconic photos reflect the lives of Australians in the twentieth century. WHEN: 9 September 2013, 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM WHEN: 26 August 2013 - 27 September 2013, 9:30 AM - 5:00 PM WHERE: Queanbeyan City Library, 6 Rutledge Street, Queanbeyan. WHERE: Camden Library, 40 John Street, Camden Disability Access. Parking Available. Disability Access. Parking Available. COST: Free. Bookings essential. COST: Free CONTACT: Brigid Whitbread, CONTACT: Jo Oliver, [email protected], 02 4654 7951 [email protected], 02 6285 6256 WEB: www.library.camden.nsw.gov.au
CAMDEN: HOW DO WE SEE OURSELVES?
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An online exhibition of photos from the 1880s to 2013 reflecting how the Camden community saw itself.
WHEN: 2 September 2013 - 30 September 2013, 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM WHERE: Camden Library, 40 John Street, Camden. Disability Access. Parking Available. COST: Free CONTACT: Jo Oliver, [email protected], 02 4654 7951 WEB: www.library.camden.nsw.gov.au
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DIGITISE YOUR PRECIOUS PHOTOS CHARLES COWELL PHOTOGRAPHY
T YPE: WORKSHOP T YPE: TALK / LECTURE HOSTED BY: CAMDEN COUNCIL LIBRARY SERVICES HOSTED BY: CAMDEN COUNCIL LIBRARY SERVICES
Bring in your precious photos and we will digitise them for you. A talk by local photographer Charles Cowell with tips for taking Please book a 15 minute time slot in sessions 10.00AM - 12.00PM, beautiful images and preserving old photographs. 2.00PM – 4.00PM, 5.00PM - 7.30PM. Maximum five photos per WHEN: 11 September 2013, 7:30 PM - 9:00 PM person. Includes 2MB USB to store your photos. WHERE: Camden Museum, 40 John Street, Camden WHEN: 10 September 2013, 10:00 AM - 7:30 PM Disability Access. Parking Available. WHERE: Camden Library, 40 John Street, Camden COST: Free Disability Access. Parking Available. CONTACT: Doug Barratt, [email protected], 02 4655 3400 COST: $5.00 WEB: www.camdenhistory.org.au CONTACT: Jo Oliver, [email protected], 02 4654 7951 WEB: www.library.camden.nsw.gov.au
MINI-DISCOVERERS ... PICTURES FRAMING HISTORY: TELEVISION AND SOCIAL CHANGE IN SEVENTIES AUSTRALIA T YPE: WORKSHOP HOSTED BY: CAMDEN COUNCIL LIBRARY SERVICES T YPE: TALK / LECTURE HOSTED BY: CITY OF CANTERBURY LIBRARY Hands-on event for preschoolers and their carers at the Camden AND THE HISTORY COUNCIL OF NSW Museum. Children will be able to see photos from the past and hear about how life was different for children living in past times. In 1972, Peter Bonsall-Boone and his partner Peter de Waal came out not just to their families and friends, but to the nation. WHEN: 10 September 2013, 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM Their decision to appear on the ABC TV current affairs program WHERE: Camden Museum, 40 John Street, Camden Chequerboard as a gay couple was a political act, with far-reaching Disability Access. Parking Available. ramifications. While most of us enjoy television as entertainment, groundbreaking programs like Chequerboard demonstrated that COST: Free television could also be a tool for social change. CONTACT: Michelle Birch, [email protected], 02 4645 5039 WEB: www.library.camden.nsw.gov.au
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WHEN: 10 September 2013, 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM
In this talk, Michelle Arrow from Macquarie University will tell the WHERE: The Powerhouse Discovery Centre, 172 Showground Road, Castle Hill story of Chequerboard, exploring the radical history of seventies COST: $10.00 General, $8.00 Concession television in Australia. This talk is presented as part of the Speaker CONTACT: [email protected], 02 9762 1300 Connect program, a partnership between the History Council of NSW and the Royal Australian Historical Society. DANGAR ISLAND Supported by Your Community Heritage.
WHEN: 12 September 2013, 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM T YPE: WALKING TOUR HOSTED BY: DANGAR ISLAND HISTORICAL SOCIETY WHERE: City of Canterbury Library, 14-28 Amy Street, Campsie COST: Free The Dangar Island Historical Society will organise a one hour walking CONTACT: Kirstin Cox, [email protected], 02 9789 9380 tour around the pristine, unique and traffic-free Dangar Island followed by a photographic exhibition, slide show, talk and refreshments. Learn how Dangar Island has been known to the Guringai Aborigines for thousands of years and observe a few of the middens left on the island. Learn about INSIDE THE VAULT Captain Arthur Philips exploratory tour of the lower Hawkesbury river and landing on the island in March 1788. Find out why the island became known T YPE: TALK / LECTURE as Mullet Island and why its name changed to Dangar Island later on. HOSTED BY: POWERHOUSE MUSEUM WHEN: 7 September 2013, 12:00 PM - 4:30 PM The Powerhouse Museum holds a remarkable collection of photographs WHERE: Dangar Island Community Hall, The Park/Yallaroi, Dangar Island covering social and documentary images to architecture, fashion Disability Access. and industry. Presented at the Powerhouse Discovery Centre - the COST: $10.00 General, $5.00 Concession, $25.00 Family Pass Powerhouse Museum’s off-site publicly accessible collection storage CONTACT: Peter Wolfe, [email protected], 02 9985 7800 facility at Castle Hill - Powerhouse social history curator, Anni Turnbull and conservator, Dee McKillop will take you on a journey through highlights of the museum’s photography collections looking at the ‘FADE TO GREY’ - DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPH WORKSHOP rational behind collecting certain photographs. Hear stories behind some of the iconic photographic images in the collection, as well as T YPE: WORKSHOP conservation and storage tips on how to care for your own treasured HOSTED BY: LIVERPOOL CITY LIBRARY family photographs. Includes morning tea on arrival and general How should you look after digital printed photographs? How can you admission to the Display Store. preserve your digital negatives? Presented by the National Archives
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of Australia, this workshop will explore both aspects of digital photography. Led by Michelle Stoddart, Manager Preservation Sydney, National Preservation Projects, Operations and Preservation, National CHILDREN’S HOMES, IN THE FRAME Archives of Australia. In conjunction with travelling exhibition ‘Max Dupain on Assignment’. T YPE: TALK / LECTURE HOSTED BY: WOLLONDILLY LIBR ARY 9 September 2013, 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM WHEN: AND THE HISTORY COUNCIL OF NSW WHERE: Liverpool City Library, Library Plaza, 170 George Street, Liverpool If photographs shape the world, what happens when you have no Disability Access. images of yourself as a child? This is the reality for many people COST: Free who grew up in out of home care in 20th century Australia. CONTACT: Joanne Morris, [email protected], 02 9821 9422 Picture research is, therefore, one of the most satisfying elements of working on the Find Connect web resource, which is a national digital history project funded by the Australian Government HOW THE IMAGE HAS BEEN USED TO SELL to assist former care leavers to connect with their past. Image collections, whether created by the NSW Government Printing T YPE: TALK / LECTURE Office, institutional staff or the Australian Women’s Weekly, HOSTED BY: LIVERPOOL CITY LIBRARY provide essential but contentious links to the past. In this talk, Jane Caro, an author, novelist, journalist, columnist, lecturer, Find Connect’s NSW State-Based Historian, Dr Naomi Parry, will unpack some of these collections, and discuss how historians might advertising writer and media commentator, will present a talk on how navigate their use and reuse, balancing the desire of some to know images have been used to advertise and market before the time of the with the sensitivities of others about the images they convey. Kardashians. Jane Caro is a sought after debater and speaker and also appears regularly in the media, including Q&A, Sunrise, The Drum, This talk is presented as part of the Speaker Connect program, a SkyNews Late Agenda, Richard Glovers Political Forum, 10 News partnership between the History Council of NSW and the Royal Soapbox and, of course, The Gruen Transfer. She presents a regular Australian Historical Society. segment on Weekend Sunrise with Joe Hildebrand: ‘Masters of Spin’. Supported by Your Community Heritage. Bookings Essential. WHEN: 7 September 2013, 1:30 PM - 2:30 PM WHEN: 12 September 2013, 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM WHERE: Wollondilly Library, 42 Menangle Street, Picton WHERE: Liverpool City Library, Library Plaza, 170 George Street, Liverpool COST: Free Disability Access CONTACT: Carmelina Nunnari, COST: Free [email protected], 02 4677 8306 CONTACT: Joanne Morris, [email protected], 02 9821 9422
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SNAPSHOTS ON THE ROAD TO BURRAGORANG
THE BODY AS THE ARCHIVE T YPE: EXHIBITION HOSTED BY: THE OAKS HISTORICAL SOCIETY T YPE: TALK / LECTURE HOSTED BY: FAIRFIELD CITY MUSEUM AND GALLERY Ever wondered what travel was like in colonial times? This exhibition AND THE HISTORY COUNCIL OF NSW presents a photo story of how European settlers travelled to the Many people know of old family photographs from the turn of the Burragorang Valley. It will explore the challenges and shifts in modes century or even earlier kept in albums or crates in an aunt’s attic or of transportation to rural outposts. grandmother’s closet. The black and white figures in these pictures 7 September 2013 - 15 September 2013, 10:00 AM - 4:00 PM look, more often than not, awfully rigid and solemn. WHEN: WHERE: Wollondilly Heritage Centre & Museum, 43 Edward Street, The Oaks In this presentation, Elisa deCourcy looks at family portraiture, Disability Access. Parking Available. among a number of other styles of photography from the COST: $2.00 nineteenth century including criminal mug shots, social portraiture The Oaks Historical Society Inc, [email protected], 02 4657 1796 and anthropological photography to explain how people were CONTACT: categorised according to class, gender, respectability and health according to how they posed for their picture. How did the angle individuals were asked to stand on, the distance of their face from PICTURES, PRANKS, AND PRINTERS the camera, their clothes and the props used in the picture, affect how the person within the frame was photographed into holding a T YPE: TALK / LECTURE particular identity? HOSTED BY: HAWKESBURY REGIONAL MUSEUM This talk is presented as part of the Speaker Connect program, a AND THE HISTORY COUNCIL OF NSW partnership between the History Council of NSW and the Royal Isn’t the NSW Public Service the last place you’d find a rich culture Australian Historical Society. of image making and unofficial creative practice? You might be Supported by Your Community Heritage. surprised. Research into the history of the NSW Government Printing Office indicates that - far from being a dry account of WHEN: 12 September 2013, 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM mundane printing tasks - the final three decades of the Government WHERE: Fairfield City Museum and Gallery, cnr The Horsley Drive Printing Office (1959-1989) were years of creative and resistant and Oxford Street, Smithfield.Disability Access. Parking Available. responses to hard times, resourceful adaptation to technological COST: Free change, and a good deal of fun. CONTACT: Carmel Aiello, [email protected], 02 9609 3993
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institutions. ‘The Writing is on the Wall’ will showcase creative works Jesse Adams Stein will take you on a rollicking ride through the eccentric working life of ‘the Guv’ - as it was known by its developed during the course of the Memory Project with a photographic employees. Discover the unexpected stories that lie behind posed display, an exhibition, artists talks and a forum on ways in which the institutional photographs, and see how the Guv’s employees arts and culture sector contribute to the public narrative about sites pictured their workplace through illustrations and amateur film. associated with trauma, loss and separation. Bookings are essential. Witness the Guv awkwardly transform from hot-metal into 14 September 2013, 12:30 PM - 4:30 PM computerisation, and enjoy the gallows humour that characterised WHEN: the last days at the Guv in 1989. WHERE: Kamballa, 1 Fleet Street, Parramatta COST: $2.00 This talk is presented as part of the Speaker Connect program, a CONTACT: Bonney Djuric, [email protected], 0437 221 149 partnership between the History Council of NSW and the Royal Australian Historical Society. Supported by Your Community Heritage. Hunter WHEN: 7 September 2013, 2:30 PM - 3:30 PM WHERE: Hawkesbury Regional Museum, 8 Baker Street, Windsor CONTOURS OF PAST COST: Free CONTACT: Prue Charlton, T YPE: DISPLAY [email protected], 02 4560 4434 HOSTED BY: DUNGOG LIBRARY
This exhibition will showcase Dungog local fashions from the 1890s to the early 1950s through a display of photographs, advertising material and some locally sourced pieces. THE WRITING IS ON THE WALL WHEN: 7 September 2013 - 15 September 2013, library open hours WHERE: Dungog Library, Mackay Street, Dungog TYPE:OPEN DAY COST: Free HOSTED BY: PARRAMATTA FEMALE FACTORY PRECINCT MEMORY PROJECT CONTACT: Maureen Kingston, [email protected], 02 4992 2094 What does it mean to have a place called home? This and other questions have brought together a team of artists, historians and former occupants as the Parramatta Female Factory Precinct Memory Project to explore the history, heritage and legacy of the precinct’s historical
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CONSERVE YOUR PRECIOUS PHOTOS NOW AND THEN
T YPE: TALK / LECTURE T YPE: EXHIBITION HOSTED BY: NEWCASTLE REGION LIBRARY HOSTED BY: NEWCASTLE REGION LIBRARY
Learn tips and tricks about how to store and care for your precious old The exhibition creates the legacy of both local heritage, personal photographic photos. Local Studies Librarian and custodian of Hunter Photobank Sue collections in regional towns, landscapes and stories that can be found all over Ryan will share her experience working with historical photos. the country. Now and Then is a national photography project with a twist; members of the community hold up an old photo in its original location and WHEN: Wednesday 11 September 2013, 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM rephotograph it telling both a story of the past and how times have changed. WHERE: Newcastle Museum, Workshop Way, Honeysuckle Disability Access. Parking Available. WHEN: 16 August – 6 October 2013, 9:30 AM - 08:00 PM (Monday - Wednesday), COST: Free 09:30 AM - 05:00 PM (Thursday and Friday), 09:30 AM to 02:00 PM (Saturday) CONTACT: Sam Willcox, [email protected], 02 4974 1400 WHERE: Lovett Gallery, Newcastle Region Library, Laman Street, Newcastle Disability Access. Parking Available. COST: Free UNEARTHING HUNTER HISTORY THROUGH PHOTOS CONTACT: Carol Edmonds, [email protected], 02 4974 5324 WEB: http://www.abc.net.au/open T YPE: TALK / LECTURE HOSTED BY: NEWCASTLE REGION LIBRARY
Journalist Greg Ray and his wife Sylvia are the authors of three historical books about the Hunter that feature stunning images from the region. Join them for a talk and see some of their fascinating photos.
WHEN: Thursday 12 September 2013, 5:30 PM - 7:00 PM WHERE: Newcastle Museum, Workshop Way, Honeysuckle Disability Access. Parking Available. COST: Free CONTACT: Sam Willcox, [email protected], 02 4974 1400
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WHEN: 7 September - 15 September 2013, 9:30 AM - 08:00 PM (Monday -Friday), ‘WISH YOU WERE HERE’ AND OTHER STORIES 09:30 AM - 02:00 PM (Saturday) WHERE: Wallsend District Library, Bunn Street, Wallsend T YPE: EXHIBITION COST: Free HOSTED BY: NEWCASTLE REGION LIBRARY CONTACT: Gillean Shaw, The picture postcard has not only played an important role in tourism [email protected], 02 4985 6680 or 02 4921 5255 but has also been an important link between families and friends. An exhibition of postcards from the collection of the Newcastle Region Library. 1983 - CAPTURED IN TIME The exhibition in the Local Studies Gallery will be launched on Friday, 6 September 2013. T YPE: OPEN DAY HOSTED BY: HENRY KENDALL COTTAGE AND HISTORICAL MUSEUM WHEN: 6 September – 2 November 2013, 9:30 AM - 08:00 PM (Monday -Wednesday), 09.30 AM - 05:00 PM (Thursday and Friday), 09:30 AM - 02:00 PM (Saturday) To celebrate History Week 2013 and our local museum’s 30th Birthday WHERE: Local Studies Lounge, Newcastle Region Library, Laman Street, Newcastle - Henry Kendall Cottage and Historical Museum, West Gosford Disability Access. Parking Available. invite you to a special exhibition ‘1983 - Captured in Time’ that will bring the past into view through the frame of photographic images COST: Free and memorabilia of the day. In 1983 the Central Coast hosted one of CONTACT: Sue Ryan, [email protected], 02 4974 5330 Australia’s biggest and most memorable rock music festivals, the Hawke era began and No Dams earrings were the rage - where were you? VINTAGE DUPAIN: FRUITS OF A FORGOTTEN INDUSTRY WHEN: 10 September 2013, 11:00 AM - 2:00 PM WHERE: Henry Kendall Cottage, 25 Henry Kendall Street, West Gosford T YPE: EXHIBITION Disability Access. Parking Available. HOSTED BY: WALLSEND DISTRICT LIBRARY COST: Gold Coin Donation Photographs by Max Dupain in the Hunter Valley before 1950 are CONTACT: Brisbane Water Historical Society Inc., among several dozen forgotten images of historic Australian winemaking [email protected], 02 4325 2270 being given new audiences through wine studies research at the University of Newcastle. This exhibition will provide an extraordinary glimpse of mid-twentieth century wine production when the Hunter remained one of Australia’s few surviving wine regions after the 1930s decline in wine growing. Best enjoyed with a glass of Hunter wine.
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Illawarra / South Coast Mid-North Coast
THE IMAGE-MAKERS OF FEDERATION AUSTRALIA MORE THAN A PARK BENCH
T YPE: TALK / LECTURE T YPE: TALK / LECTURE HOSTED BY: WOLLONGONG CITY LIBRARY HOSTED BY: TWEED HEADS LIBRARY AND THE HISTORY AND THE HISTORY COUNCIL OF NSW COUNCIL OF NSW Gary Werskey will examine the career of A.H. Fullwood (1863- In 1816, Macquarie opened one part of his lands to the public, 1930) artist illustrator for the ‘Picturesque Atlas’, ‘Sydney Mail’, officially inaugurating the Royal Botanic Gardens, Sydney with the and ‘The Bulletin’ - to demonstrate how Sydney’s Bohemians completion of the Macquarie Wall, probably the oldest constructed shaped the art and imagination of Australians in the period element of the Garden. Throughout the next (nearly) two hundred 1880-1900 and beyond. One exceptional feature of pre-Federation years various people have contributed to the visual impact of the images is that they were mainly produced not by photographers but garden with statues, sculptures, fountains, walls, benches, bridges, by some of the era’s leading painters and graphic artists - most of steps, obelisks, pavilions and memorial plaques, to say nothing of whom were based in Sydney. Unfortunately for Sydney’s artist- the special plantings also intended as memory markers. illustrators their art has since been sidelined by the art-world and its Each work made a statement about the values of the people who chroniclers in favour of the Heidelberg painters. One of the notable installed it, either aesthetically or in what they chose to remember. Jo casualties of this telling of history was the Anglo-Australian artist Henwood will explore how the installations are seen with different eyes A.H. Fullwood who was equally prominent as a painter and black by contemporary viewers, so that some are retired and others take their and white artist. place as the garden’s relationship with the people continues to evolve. This talk is presented as part of the Speaker Connect program, This talk is presented as part of the Speaker Connect program, a a partnership between the History Council of NSW and the partnership between the History Council of NSW and the Royal Royal Australian Historical Society. Supported by Your Australian Historical Society. Supported by Your Community Heritage. Community Heritage. WHEN: 13 September 2013, 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM WHEN: 13 September 2013, 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM WHERE: Tweed Heads Library, Corner Wharf and Brett Streets, WHERE: Wollongong City Library, 41 Burelli Street, Wollongong Tweed Heads. Disability Access. Parking Available. COST: Free COST: Free CONTACT: Eileen Smith, CONTACT: Christie Campbell, [email protected], 02 4227 7693 [email protected], 07 5569 3150
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Murray New England / Northwest
ALBURY-WODONGA GROWTH CENTRE EXPERIMENT REPRODUCING THE PICTURES
T YPE: TALK / LECTURE T YPE: TALK / LECTURE HOSTED BY: ALBURY LIBRARY MUSEUM HOSTED BY: MUSEUM OF PRINTING AT THE NEW ENGLAND REGIONAL ART MUSEUM The Albury-Wodonga National Growth Centre Project was a big, bold, brave attempt to attract city people to a regional centre. The three A picture might be worth a thousand words but before computers the governments launching it were embarking on an exciting adventure in work that went into preparing a picture for print was extraordinary. the spirit of co-operative federalism. But at base, Albury-Wodonga was This talk by Museum of Printing curator Dr Benjamin Thorn looks at a marketing exercise. Promotional pictures show what was being sold the processes that were used from the 1940s to the 1970s and the men of to tourists, investors, and potential and existing residents - employment, the printing industry who performed them. Most of the material derives housing and services available in these districts. Promotional from an extensive series of oral history interviews so that we gain insight photographs also reflected how the place was well endowed with nature’s into an historical industrial process in the words and through the eyes of beauty, rich and rare. Building on the photographic collection at the the people involved in it. The talk will be illustrated by printing blocks Albury Library Museum, Bruce Pennay from Charles Sturt University and other artefacts from the period. will trace and draw out bottom-up versions of the Growth Centre story. WHEN: 12 September 2013, 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM Why did people come? What did they experience? WHERE: Museum of Printing at NERAM, Kentucky Street, Armidale An exhibition on the topic will be mounted at the Albury Library Disability Access. Parking Available. Museum in October 2013 to mark the 40th anniversary of the COST: $2.00 inauguration of the three-government Albury-Wodonga Growth CONTACT: Benjamin Thorn, [email protected], 02 6772 5255 Centre Agreement.
WHEN: 8 September 2013, 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM WHERE: Albury Library Museum, 553 Kiewa Street, Albury. Disability Access. COST: Free CONTACT: Karlie Hawking, [email protected], 02 6023 8333
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Northern Rivers
THE ARDLETHAN COT
SECURING THE SHADOW T YPE: TALK / LECTURE HOSTED BY: TAFE AND THE HISTORY COUNCIL OF NSW T YPE: EXHIBITION From the provocatively desperate to the positively inspirational, HOSTED BY: RICHMOND RIVER HISTORICAL SOCIETY charities have long used images in their fundraising. The Nineteenth century advertisements exhorted photographers to ‘Secure Benevolent Society of New South Wales, in the interwar period, used photographs of young children in named cots to advertise the shadow, ere the substance fade!’ As far back as the 1870s, across the one of their major sources of fundraising in that period: cot Richmond River region of northern NSW photographers were capturing endowments. Organisations or auxiliaries could have a cot (or on film the changing landscape and its peoples. Their enthusiasm for the a bed or a bassinette) named after them in return for an annual new medium extended into the new century and the advent of moving endowment. pictures. This exhibition will feature the works of prominent early photographers of Lismore and district, and their tools of trade, as well as Patricia Curthoys details this aspect of the Society’s fundraising by exploring the story behind one particular cot - the Ardlethan cot, some early cinematography. endowed by the Ardlethan branch of the Benevolent Society from WHEN: 9 September - 4 October 2013, 10:00 AM - 04:00 PM (Monday - Friday) 1917 to 1933. It places the story of the branch’s fundraising efforts WHERE: Lismore Museum, 165 Molesworth Street, Lismore in Ardlethan, in south-western New South Wales, within the larger COST: Free story of the Benevolent Society’s fundraising efforts in this period. In so doing it brings to life just one of the stories behind these CONTACT: Richmond River Historical Society, photographs of cots. [email protected], 02 6621 9993
This talk is presented as part of the Speaker Connect program, a partnership between the History Council of NSW and the Royal Australian Historical Society. Supported by Your Community Heritage.
WHEN: 7 September 2013, 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM WHERE: Glen Innes Severn Learning Centre, TAFE University Of New England, Glen Innes COST: Free CONTACT: Eve Chappell, [email protected], 02 6732 1035
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Riverina
THE BLOKE IN THE BACK WITH A FUNNY HAT
T YPE: TALK / LECTURE PHOTOGRAPHY AND FANCY DRESS HOSTED BY: RICHMOND-TWEED REGIONAL LIBRARY AND THE HISTORY COUNCIL OF NSW T YPE: TALK / LECTURE What people wore and how they wore it are always more HOSTED BY: MUSEUM OF THE RIVERINA fantastical than the fashion history publications indicate. AND HISTORY COUNCIL OF NSW Capturing those nuances leads to the creation of interesting In her presentation, Helen Walters will explore the role of characters. Costume designers and creators use images from photography as part of fancy dress practice and the reasons why the past to inform the design of costumes for theatre, film and people want to have visual memories of themselves and their television. Photographs play an integral part in research into the friends wearing and playing dress-up. A fancy dress party is a re-creation of costumes of the past, especially as many costumes fleeting and frivolous event where appearance plays centre stage involve the creation of rounded characters rather than fashion and people can deliberately flaunt, subvert and challenge the norms duplicates.In the reverse, costume is also a useful tool in the of everyday behaviour and fashions. Photography and fancy dress dating of photographs, newspaper clippings or film. Fiona Reilly have a long history and the famous Duchess of Devonshire’s Ball will discuss how she has in the past helped archives, individuals in 1897 is an early example of the connection between photography and organisations to date images through costume. Frustratingly, and costuming. Today people use their phones and cameras to a great many documentaries use incorrectly dated images to record their fancy dress antics and then share their experiences on visually support their material. This can be picked up easily by Youtube and Facebook. taking note of the costumes within images. This talk is presented as part of the Speaker Connect program, a This talk is presented as part of the Speaker Connect program, partnership between the History Council of NSW and the Royal a partnership between the History Council of NSW and the Royal Australian Historical Society. Australian Historical Society. Supported by Your Community Heritage. Supported by Your Community Heritage. WHEN: 11 September 2013, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM WHEN: 10 September 2013, 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM WHERE: Museum of the Riverina, cnr Baylis and Morrow Strees, WHERE: Murwillumbah Branch - Richmond-Tweed Regional Library, Wagga Wagga. Disability Access. Parking Available. Tumbulgum Street, Murwillumbah COST: Free COST: Free CONTACT: Tina de Jong, [email protected], 02 6926 9654 CONTACT: Linda Bell, [email protected], 02 6670 2427
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Sydney
SHIFTING THE RURAL GAZE
TOURING THE PAST T YPE: TALK / LECTURE HOSTED BY: BL AND SHIRE LIBR ARY T YPE: EXHIBITION AND THE HISTORY COUNCIL OF NSW HOSTED BY: UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY Lawrence Bamblett presents the history and stories of a How did the Australian past become an object of the tourist gaze? This tiny rural community in central NSW, which will challenge many expectations. Drawing on his recently published book, exhibition charts the way Australians began to discover they had a past Dr Bamblett brings an astonishing history of a remarkable worth visiting. Convicts, bushrangers and rebellious diggers became place to light. Using oral testimony, historic photographs and standard tourist fare surprisingly early. At the same time, Australia’s past contemporary accounts, your picture of a typical Australian rural was also acquiring a patina of nostalgia, as artists discovered the beauties community will be changed as Lawrence Bamblett shifts the gaze of colonial architecture and country towns recognised the benefits of from that of an outsider to that from within. This talk will both promoting their history to tourists. From Port Arthur to the Dog on the tell about a history of place and its people, but also show how Tuckerbox, this exhibition explores the variety of pasts that tourists history itself changes depending on the vantage point of both the visited, the exhibits that drew them in and the souvenirs they took away. historian and their audiences. Bamblett’s talk will reveal a part of Australian history too often ignored, while interrogating our WHEN: 26 August 2013 - 15 February 2014, 10:00 AM - 04:30 PM historical assumptions. (Monday - Friday), 12:00 PM - 04:00 PM first Saturday of the month. WHERE: Macleay Museum, University of Sydney This talk is presented as part of the Speaker Connect program, a Free partnership between the History Council of NSW and the Royal COST: Australian Historical Society. CONTACT: [email protected], 02 9036 5253 WEB: http://sydney.edu.au/museums/ Supported by Your Community Heritage.
WHEN: 11 September 2013, 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM WHERE: Bland Shire Library, 6 Shire Street, West Wyalong COST: Free CONTACT: Joanne Russo, [email protected], 02 6979 0274
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COST: $5.00 per person TEN YEARS AT CIRCULAR QUAY (Optional Yum Cha lunch at East Ocean Chinese Restaurant: $18.00 per person) CONTACT: Mr King Fong, [email protected], 02 9452 3761 T YPE: EXHIBITION HOSTED BY: TIM COLE TOURISTS’ PICTURES OF THE PAST For ten years, 1992-2003, Sydney photographer, Tim Cole was captured by the endless stream of faces and happenings that make the Quay ... the T YPE: TALK / LECTURE soul to Sydney. Buskers, locals, NO WAR, olympics and reconciliation HOSTED BY: UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY are all themes captured in these beautiful hand printed black and white This talk by Associate Professor Richard White considers the ways prints and the odd colour photograph. in which tourists came to visualise Australia’s past as a destination WHEN: 7 September 2013 - 20 September 2013, worth visiting. It will cover a range of ways in which tourists learned 9:00 AM - 05:00 PM (Monday - Friday) to ‘see’ the past over the last century - through art (especially etchings), WHERE: Gateway Building, Foyer, Circular Quay. Disability Access postcards, photography, posters, film, souvenirs, coffee table books - as COST: Free well as considering the ways they themselves took away their own tourist CONTACT: Tim Cole, [email protected], 0424 287 495 snapshots (what’s been called the ‘circle of representation’). The talk relates to specific ‘historic’ tourist sites in (particularly regional) NSW.
WALKING INTO CHINATOWN’S HISTORY WHEN: 10 September 2013, 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM WHERE: Law School, University of Sydney T YPE: WALKING TOUR COST: Free HOSTED BY: CHINESE AUSTRALIAN HISTORICAL SOCIETY CONTACT: Craig Barker, Let us take you through the history of Chinatown both on foot and with [email protected] (for bookings), 02 9036 5253 photographs which captured Chinatown’s historical moments. King Fong, Vice President of the Chinese Australian Historical Society and a TOURING THE PAST - CURATOR’S TALK long-standing merchant in Chinatown, will take you through the streets of Haymarket and talk about the history of this culturally distinctive EXHIBITION TOUR part of Sydney. At an optional Yum Cha lunch which follows the walk, HOSTED BY: UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY the stories of Chinatown and her people will be told through a collection Associate Professor Richard White leads a tour of the Macleay of historical pictures. Museum’s exhibition ‘Touring the Past’ focusing on material displayed WHEN: 10 September 2013 10:45 AM - 12.30 PM in the exhibition which examines the history of Australia’s tourist WHERE: meet at the cnr of Dixon and Hay Streets, Sydney industry. This free floor talk highlights objects including photographs,
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art, postcards and souvenirs that represent the development of a sense of Australian history that could be visited, and are currently exhibited in ‘Touring the Past’. SEE THE MACQUARIE GROUP COLLECTION - THE LAND AND ITS PSYCHE WHEN: 11 September 2013, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM WHERE: Macleay Museum, University of Sydney T YPE: TALK / LECTURE COST: Free HOSTED BY: ROYAL AUSTRALIAN HISTORICAL SOCIETY CONTACT: Craig Barker, [email protected], 02 9036 5253 ‘Works of art that echo our pragmatic and occupied lives have a presence that is pervasive and provocative yet hard to quantify’.
EDMUND CAPON AUSTRALIAN IDENTITY THROUGH COLONIAL ART The first bank to collect art as part of its business culture was the Monte del Paschi di Siena. In 1481, it commissioned a local artist, T YPE: TALK / LECTURE Benvenuto di Giovanni, to paint a fresco for its headquarters. The HOSTED BY: ROYAL AUSTRALIAN HISTORICAL SOCIETY presence of works of arts by local artists on the halls of commerce Join Elizabeth Ellis OAM for a talk on colonial art. Elizabeth is continues today at Macquarie Group with some 700 works spread a biographer of early Australian artists, and her work includes across 30 cities around the world. ‘Rare and Curious: The Secret History of Governor Macquarie’s Collectors Chest’, which provides a glimpse into life in early Led by the collections independent consultant, Felicity Fenner, settlement New South Wales. She is currently the Emeritus Curator join a tour of the collection at Macquarie Groups Martin Place of the Mitchell Library at the State Library of New South Wales. office followed by drinks and a discussion on the significance of the collection and the sense it gives to our complex Australian The talk will take place at GPO 1, Martin Place, which currently heritage in the old Banking Chamber for the GPO building hosts ‘Macquarie the Governor, 1810 to 1821’ a collaborative which currently houses the exhibition ‘Macquarie the Governor exhibition between the State Library of NSW and Macquarie Group 1810-1821’. Collection. Attendees are invited to stay explore significant items from the library’s collection such as Lachlan Macquarie’s chair, holey WHEN: 11 September 2013, 05:55 PM sharp for 06:00 PM start dollars and dumps and convict material. WHERE: Macquarie Group, No. 1 Martin Place, Sydney. Disability Access . WHEN: 11 September 2013, 12:45 PM - 1:15 PM COST: Free WHERE: GPO 1, Martin Place, Sydney CONTACT: [email protected], 02 9247 8001 COST: Free CONTACT: RAHS, [email protected], 02 9247 8001
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FOLLOWING PHOTOGRAPHY’S FOOTSTEPS MEMORY KEEPERS JOURNEY
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Council Historian Ian Hoskins leads an informative walk beginning Photographs of christenings, weddings, celebrations in our homes and in Lavender Bay at the site of Holtermanns Tower now owned by the colourful gardens, our children starting school and graduating, are often Shore School, where some of the most significant panoramas of Sydney the only glimpses of our distant lives for grandparents and loved ones Harbour were taken between the 1870s and 1900. We stop at Christ left behind long ago. These photos speak for themselves and no words Church to talk about the work of Harbour Bridge photographer Frank are necessary: ‘We are doing fine. We have changed, but we have not Cash and then continuing on across the Harbour Bridge to Observatory forgotten who we are. We miss you. We are happy in our new adopted Hill and Sydney Observatory where morning tea will be served on the country...’ This exhibition and floor talk will explore how photography verandah with views back to the Holtermann site. Participants will has helped us to remember our important events, faces and places that hear about the work of astronomer photographer HC Russell at the connect us with each other, our traditions, and our roots in our new Observatory, see the historic transit telescope and the Signal Station homeland. which pre-dates the 1858 Observatory and is rarely opened to the public. WHEN: 15 September, 2013 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM Please wear sturdy shoes, sunscreen and a hat. WHERE: St Lazarus Serbian Orthodox Church, 14 Renwick Street, Alexandria Disability Access. Parking Available. Note: This walk includes stairs. If you would like to attend but have COST: Free, donations welcome. mobility issues please contact us to discuss your needs. CONTACT: Mirjana Djukic, [email protected], 0421 971 901 WHEN: Friday 13 September 2013, 9:30 AM - 12:30 PM WHERE: meet at corner Blue and William Street, North Sydney Disability Access. Parking Available. COST: $10.00 General, $8.00 Concession, includes Observatory entry and morning tea CONTACT: [email protected], 02 9921 3485 WEB: www.sydneyobservatory.com.au
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of books showing how widely the nurse was used in adult and children’s ROZELLE BRIDES literature throughout the ages. Visitors will also be able to view archival film from the 1920s, ‘30s and ‘50s revealing the often difficult working and T YPE: EXHIBITION living conditions of women in bush nursing, district nursing and midwifery. HOSTED BY: LEICHHARDT LIBRARY The exhibition will remain in place for several weeks and may be The Sidney Riley Studios of Rozelle were professional wedding viewed by the public on Tuesdays or by appointment. photographers between 1939 -1945. These stunning glass plate negatives depict an era long gone. Full length portraits of wedding groups Transport: Buses along Parramatta Road to Mallett Street. Limited including brides in traditional full length gowns and 1940s knee length street parking on Mallett Street and surrounding areas. day dresses. Some of the bridal parties include men and women in WHEN: 10 September and 12 September 2013, 10:00 AM - 3:00 PM World War II uniforms. Images are courtesy of the Mitchell Library, WHERE: C1.02, Sydney Nursing School, University of Sydney, Camperdown State Library of New South Wales. Rozelle Brides is an initiative by COST: Free Allan Davies of the State Library of NSW, curated by Amie Zar. CONTACT: Noeline Kyle or Lynette Russell, WHEN: 1 September 2013 - 30 September 2013, 9:00 AM - 8:00 PM [email protected], 02 9351 0635 or 0403 868 051 WHERE: Balmain Library, 370 Darling Street, Balmain. Disability Access WEB: sydney.edu.au/nursing/about_us/our_campus/nursing_history_research_unit COST: Free CONTACT: Amie Zar, [email protected], 02 9367 9335 TAKE A BOW WEB: www.leichhardt.nsw.gov.au/Library
T YPE: EXHIBITION IMAGES OF THE NURSES HOSTED BY: CITY OF CANTERBURY LIBRARY Focussing on local theatres in the area, this exhibition will include a loop T YPE: EXHIBITION of content on our digital screen, including photographs, ephemera and HOSTED BY: SYDNEY NURSING SCHOOL snippets of information relating to the theatres that were in the local area Images of the nurse, idealised under the gaze of patients, doctors and and a display of theatre related realia, posters and original photographs. community, are widespread in Australian culture and history. This WHEN: 12 September 2013, 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM exhibition uses a collection of these images to show how the nurse WHERE: Campsie Library, 14-28 Amy Street, Campsie has been portrayed over time. The images, collected from covers of Disability Access. Parking Available. published books from Australia and overseas, from individual nurses, COST: Free. Bookings essential. nursing associations and archives, reflect social and community customs CONTACT: Kirstin Cox, [email protected], 02 9789 9423 within the times in which they emerged. The display will include copies
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RELIEF WORK IN WILLOUGHBY DURING THE DEPRESSION BORONIA AND FEDERATION CHATSWOOD IN 1913
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Join us as we bring the past alive through a pictorial exhibition This guided walk will explore the unique sub-division designs within of our Depression era relief works collection. These unique and the Conservation Area, the development of Chatswood’s grand powerful photographs illustrate the activities undertaken by the relief Federation bungalows, their demolition for commercial development workers during the 1930s in Willoughby. These activities included and community action in the 1980s to protect local heritage values. the construction of the Walter Burley Griffin designed Incinerator, The walk will commence from and finish at the Willoughby Museum. the Eastern Valley Highway, various infrastructure activities such as This guided walk is a complementary event to our exhibition ‘From road and footpath construction, drainage and kerbing. The exhibition Home to Museum: Celebrating 100 Years’ at the Willoughby Museum will look at the faces embedded within each image, the local and which celebrates the centenary of the Federation cottage Boronia, now international historical context, as well as what historians can glean the home of the Willoughby Museum and explores its place in the from the collection. Willoughby City Library Services recently digitised historical development of the south Chatswood residential area and it 800 nitrate negatives and this is the first time that the collection has been fine Federation homes. The year 1913 is a key focus of the exhibition, presented as the focus of a single display. which explores the sub-divisions, the fine Federation homes and WHEN: 5 September 2013 - 31 October 2013, 9:00 AM - 09:00 PM everyday living of the era through historical photographs, maps and (Monday -Thursday), 09:00 AM - 06:00 PM (Friday), 09:00 AM - 05:00 PM domestic objects. (Saturday), 02:00 PM - 05:00 PM (Sunday) WHERE: Chatswood Library on The Concourse, Lower Ground, The cost includes free entry to the current exhibition. 409 Victoria Avenue, Chatswood. Disability Access. Parking Available. WHEN: 8 September 2013, 10:00 AM - 12:30 PM Free COST: WHERE: Willoughby Museum, 58 Johnson Street, Chatswood Shirley Ramrakha, Local Studies Librarian, CONTACT: COST: $10.00 General, $20.00 Family Pass [email protected], 02 9777 7900 CONTACT: Willoughby District Historical Society, [email protected], 02 9410 3203. Phone or email Willoughby Museum.
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FROM GLASSPLATE TO CYBERSPACE ADAM FOREST GRANT: A LIFE IN PHOTOGRAPHY T YPE: SYMPOSIUM
T YPE: TALK / LECTURE HOSTED BY: AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL MARITIME MUSEUM HOSTED BY: CITY OF SYDNEY Explore how cultural institutions are using digital community platforms Laila Ellmoos, Historian at the City of Sydney’s History Unit, looks at to share their photographic collections and unlock social and family the life and work of photographer and engineer Adam Forrest Grant. histories. A lively panel discussion chaired by Paula Bray, Manager, Visual and Digitisation Services, Powerhouse Museum and featuring Adam Forest Grant (1885-1949) was an engineer at Sydney Municipal Lisa Murray, City Historian at City of Sydney, Geoff Hinchcliffe, Council from 1908 until his death in 1949, working his way up from Director of Digital Library Services and Chief Information Officer draughtsman to become Supervising Engineer of Building Works. at State Library NSW, Bernard Di Broglio, Internet Coordinator, Outside of work hours, it was said that his ‘interests lay in those Mosman Council; Mitchell Whitelaw, Associate Professor at University subjects somewhat off the beaten track’. Apart from taking an active of Canberra and author of the Visible Archive and ANMM’s online interest in microscopy, swordsmanship and woodwork, Grant was collection Penelope Hyde and Nicole Cama. a talented and keen photographer. A foundation member of the Photographic Society of NSW, he roamed the streets of Sydney with Enjoy light refreshments and an after hours viewing of the exhibitions. a camera for over 40 years, capturing unique glimpses of the city’s WHEN: 11 September 2013, 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM architectural detail and industrial beauty, now lost to history. Grant’s WHERE: Australian National Maritime Museum, 2 Murray Street, Darling photographs were donated to the City of Sydney Archives collection Harbour, Sydney. Disability Access. Parking Available. by his granddaughter Helen Grant. COST: $20.00 General, $18.00 Members A selection of Adam Forest Grant photographs will be on display at CONTACT: Annalice Creighton, [email protected], 02 9298 3655 Customs House Library during September in celebration of History WEB: www.anmm.gov.au/events Week 2013.
WHEN: Wednesday 11 September 2013, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM PICTURING WARRINGAH WHERE: Customs House Library, 31 Alfred Street, Circular Quay Disability Access. T YPE: EXHIBITION COST: Free HOSTED BY: WARRINGAH LIBRARY SERVICE CONTACT: Laila Ellmoos, [email protected], 02 9246 7274 Idyllic images of blue skies, white breakers, abundant wildflowers WEB: coslibrary.eventbrite.com.au and luminous lagoons have often been used to represent Warringah. An exhibition in the Local Studies Room at Dee Why Library explores
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the many different images of Warringah which have been created over the years. From subdivision plans decorated with graphic art to HUNTERS HILL - A PHOTOGRAPHIC RECORD photographic postcards, artworks of local scenes and ephemera designed to encourage local tourism, discover how Warringah has been pictured T YPE: EXHIBITION in the past. HOSTED BY: HUNTERS HILL MUSEUM Our exhibition tells the story of the people who developed Hunters Hill WHEN: 7 September 2013 – 30 October 2013, 10:00 AM - 9:00 PM - using their entrepreneurial spirit to create the vibrant garden suburb WHERE: Warringah Library Service Dee Why Library, we see today. Visitors will see how Hunters Hill has developed from an 725 Pittwater Road, Dee Why industrial area based on its proximity to Sydney Harbour and Cockatoo Disability Access. Parking Available. Island, to a haven of elegant houses, stone walls and beautiful gardens. COST: Free See how families lived in the past, with a fine tradition in literature, CONTACT: Tina Graham, [email protected], 02 9942 2610 theatre and art which continues today. Learn about the families whose WEB: www.warringah.nsw.gov.au influence caused Hunters Hill to be called The French Village. See how people enjoyed themselves at sport and social activities. SYDNEY BY GASLIGHT WHEN: 7 September 2013 - 31 December 2013, 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM (Monday - Friday) T YPE: TALK / LECTURE WHERE: Hunters Hill Museum, 22 Alexandra Street, Hunters Hill HOSTED BY: CITY OF SYDNEY HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION Disability Access. Weatherman Dick Whittaker will take you on a pictorial tour of COST: Gold Coin Donation colonial Sydney as you have never seen it. Gaslight came to Sydney CONTACT: Ian Adair, [email protected], 02 9879 9443 quite early in the 1840s. The night was never the same again, safer for some helping them to find their way home but more dangerous with others abroad at night with malice a forethought. These amazing PICTURING OUR PAST photographs will provide you with an insight into how life was in the early days of Sydney. T YPE: DISPLAY HOSTED BY: HURSTVILLE CITY LIBRARY, MUSEUM & GALLERY WHEN: 7 September 2013, 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM On display will be a selection of photographs from Hurstville Library, WHERE: Glebe Town Hall, 160 St John’s Road, Glebe. Disability Access. Museum & Gallery’s photographic collection. These images will COST: $2.00 provide an insight into Hurstville’s past and will include some select CONTACT: City of Sydney Historical Associaion, photographic equipment from our collections. [email protected], 02 9518 8730 WEB: www.sydneyhistorical.org.au
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WHEN: 7 September 2013 - 15 September 2013, 9:30 AM - 9:00 PM photographing the subjects for the ‘Living Hurstville: Portraits of a (Monday - Friday), 9:30 AM - 4:00 PM (Saturday), 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM (Sunday) Community’ exhibition and how the concept of personal photography WHERE: Hurstville City Library, cnr Queens Road and Dora Streets, Hurstville has changed over time. Disability Access. Parking Available. WHEN: 8 September 2013 , 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM COST: Free WHERE: Hurstville Museum and Gallery, 14 MacMahon Street, Hurstville CONTACT: [email protected], 02 9330 6444 Disability Access. Parking Available. WEB: www.hurstville.nsw.gov.au/lmg COST: Free CONTACT: [email protected], 02 9330 6444 LIVING HURSTVILLE: PORTRAITS OF A COMMUNITY
FOREST ROAD THEN AND NOW T YPE: EXHIBITION HOSTED BY: HURSTVILLE MUSEUM & GALLERY T YPE: WALKING TOUR This photographic exhibition will focus on people that have an HOSTED BY: HURSTVILLE MUSEUM & GALLERY association with the Hurstville area. The exhibition aims to capture the Forest Road has been an economic and social hub of Hurstville for over diversity, passions and individual stories of the local community. a century. Join us at Hurstville Museum & Gallery for a photographic WHEN: 7 September 2013 - 15 September 2013, 10:00 AM - 04:00 PM presentation on Forest Road then, followed by a walking tour (Tuesday) and 02:00 PM - 05:00 PM (Sunday) highlighting Forest Road now. Please note participants must be able to WHERE: Hurstville Museum and Gallery, 14 MacMahon Street, Hurstville stand and walk for a period of up to one hour. Event will be re-scheduled Disability Access. Parking Available. in wet weather. Walking shoes and sun protection required. COST: Free WHEN: 14 September 2013, 10:30 AM - 11:45 AM CONTACT: [email protected], 02 9330 6444 WHERE: Hurstville Museum and Gallery, 14 MacMahon Street, Hurstville WEB: www.hurstville.nsw.gov.au/lmg Disability Access. Parking Available. COST: $10.00 PHOTOGRAPHY: CAPTURING THE REAL PERSON CONTACT: [email protected], 02 9330 6444
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How do you capture the essence of a person in a single image? Join photographer Reanne Potter as she discusses the process of
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BELONGMENT: ARE YOU IN THE PICTURE?
COLONIAL PHOTOGRAPHS OF ABORIGINAL PEOPLE T YPE: EXHIBITION HOSTED BY: LEICHHARDT LIBRARY T YPE: TALK / LECTURE HOSTED BY: HURSTVILLE CITY LIBRARY, MUSEUM & Tony Dixon, of Lilyfield (1937-2007) drew portraits of people he met GALLERY AND THE HISTORY COUNCIL OF NSW from the community in Leichhardt. Some call him Leichhardt’s Eternity Histories of Australian photography and exhibition catalogues Man, others a true Aussie Larrikin. ’Belongment’ is a word Tony coined, have engaged with selected images of Aboriginal people in following his citizenship ceremony in 1996 at the Leichhardt Town Hall. Australia, yet no synthesised overview of the photographic This exhibition epitomises Tony’s apt new expression, as portrayed in images of Australia’s indigenous people has been produced. In this over 200 portraits, whacky cartoons and poems, short reflections on talk, Leonarda Kovacic fills in this gap by presenting the iconic life and his exquisite banners. All were created in local spaces in the images of Aboriginal people and familiarising the audience with Leichhardt community and reflect its diversity and character. Tony was the differences and commonalities in the colonial portrayal of also a pivotal member of the Italian Welfare Craft Group which sold Aboriginal people, both as individuals and groups. The lecture analyses the seminal works of colonial photographers of Aboriginal handicrafts for many years from a small shop in Market Town. Many people (Nicholas Caire, Fred Kruger, Paul Foelsche, Charles Kerry, of his outstanding screen-printed items including t-shirts, aprons and Henry King, and others), and situates them within the broader magnificent banners will also be on display. context of international trends in photography of indigenous people WHEN: 6 September 2013 - 31 October 2013, 9:30 AM - 8:00 PM and other underprivileged strata of society. Amply illustrated by Leichhardt Library, 23 Norton Street, Italian Forum, Leichhardt slides, the lecture explores the key issues arising out of the visual WHERE: representation of race and culture and encourages us to understand Disability Access. Parking Available. the complexities of cross-cultural engagement in the process of COST: Free picture-making. CONTACT: Amie Zar, [email protected], 02 9367 9335
This talk is presented as part of the Speaker Connect program, a partnership between the History Council of NSW and the Royal HOSPITAL BY THE SEA Australian Historical Society. Supported by Your Community Heritage.
WHEN: 15 September 2013, 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM T YPE: DISPLAY HOSTED BY: NURSING AND MEDICAL MUSEUM WHERE: Hurstville Museum and Gallery, 14 MacMahon Street, Hurstville. Disability Access. Parking Available. Picture our ‘sea’ history from bare rocks (at one time, wrapped in COST: Free fabric by Christo, ‘Wrapped Coast - One Million Square Feet - Little CONTACT: [email protected], 02 9330 6444 Bay, Sydney, Australia. 1969.’), through to vegetable gardens, the dairy
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WHEN: 11 September 2013, 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM farm and the now 18 hole golf course, all overlooking the sea at Little WHERE: Macquarie University Art Gallery, Building E11A, Bay. Also, the original clock tower which was used to toll the time, call Macquarie University. Disability Access. Parking Available. people on an emergency, and the lower section was used as a meat safe/ COST: Free smoke house. CONTACT: Rhonda Davis, Macquarie University Art Gallery, [email protected], 02 9850 7437 WHEN: 7 September 2013, 10:00 AM - 2:00 PM WHERE: Nursing and Medical Museum, 2 Brodie Street, Little Bay Disability Access. Parking Available. BERT IVE AND THE HISTORY OF FILM AUSTRALIA COST: $5.00 CONTACT: Lyn Smith, [email protected], 02 9387 4412 T YPE: TALK / LECTURE HOSTED BY: MARRICKVILLE LIBRARY AND HISTORY SERVICES
In 2013 the NFSA’s Film Australia Collection turns 100, and throughout PICTURE MARGARET PRESTON’S HOUSE AND GARDEN the year the NFSA is celebrating the 5000 documentaries produced IN BEROWRA 1932-1939 by the Australian government from 1913 to 2008. These films
T YPE: TALK / LECTURE represent Australia’s audio visual record - our collective memory. On HOSTED BY: HISTORY TEACHER’S ASSOCIATION OF NSW 10 September the NFSA’s Manager Access Projects, Graham Shirley, will talk about the career of the Commonwealth’s first long-term One of Australia’s best-loved artists Margaret Preston lived in Berowra for cinematographer, Bert Ive, as well as the history of the organisation a period of seven years from 1932 to 1939. Historians of late have come behind him, the federal body eventually known as Film Australia. to recognise Preston’s time spent in Berowra had a major impact on her work as an artist ‘the direct contact with Australian native plants and the WHEN: 10 September 2013, 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM rock engravings made by the Guringai people’ left an indelible mark that WHERE: Marrickville Library, corner Marrickville and Petersham Roads, changed her trajectory. The Berowra property which comprised 11 acres Marrickville. Disability Access. Parking Available. traversed a beautiful sprawling garden and in its quiet seclusion allowed COST: Free, but bookings essential. Preston the time for reflection and to delve into modes of experimentation CONTACT: Marrickville Library and History Services, in her art production. Historical works by pioneering photographer [email protected], 02 9335 2173 Harold Cazneaux (1878-1953) cast alongside contemporary photographic works by Effy Alexakis allows an intimate glimpse into Preston’s Berowra house and garden. The efficacy of the photographic works illuminates the life and work of Margaret Preston in Berowra in ways that places the viewer in that time and space. Presented by Rhonda Davis.
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WHEN: 9 September 2013 - 26 September 2013, 9:00 AM - 4:00 PM PICTURE MARRICKVILLE WHERE: Australian History Museum, Building W6A, Level 1, Macquarie University, North Ryde. Disability Access. Parking Available. T YPE: TALK / LECTURE COST: Free HOSTED BY: MARRICKVILLE LIBRARY AND HISTORY SERVICES CONTACT: Jane Thogersen, [email protected], 02-9850-8870 Marrickville Library and History Services collect the history of the Marrickville district, and one of our most exciting areas of SCAN AND SHARE: FAMILY PHOTO OPEN DAY collecting are pictures and photographs. This talk will highlight recent additions to our visual collections, together with significant T YPE: OPEN DAY items from our collections ranging from the nineteenth century HOSTED BY: STANTON LIBRARY through to the present day. Including street parades, soldiers, buildings, estates, parks, and a long forgotten families, come and Do you have family links with North Sydney? Bring your picture Marrickville’s past and present. interesting family photos to the North Sydney Heritage Centre for help with identification and dating. We will create a digital scan for you WHEN: 12 September 2013, 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM and for North Sydney’s on-line collection of over 8,000 local images. WHERE: Marrickville Library, corner Marrickville and Petersham Roads, We would love to hear any stories you can share about your photos. Marrickville. Disability Access. Parking Available. Individual timeslots to be arranged on booking COST: Free. Bookings essential. CONTACT: Marrickville Library and History Services, Bookings essential. Individual time slots to be arranged on booking. [email protected], 02 9335 2173 WHEN: 7 September 2013, 10:00 AM - 4:00 PM WHERE: Stanton Library, 234 Miller Street, North Sydney
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The exhibition at the Australian History Museum at Macquarie University will explore the way the camera has portrayed, documented, and influenced the changing face of Australia and the Australian population from the mid 19th century to today.
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and Federation era houses that were built on the subdivision. Ending ‘VINTOGRAPHY’ WORKSHOP at St Thomas Rest Park where Holtermann is buried, there will be an exhibition of North Sydney panoramas displayed at Sexton’s Cottage as T YPE: WORKSHOP well as a light morning tea.Note: Low-medium grade walk. Please bring HOSTED BY: STANTON LIBRARY a hat, sunscreen and drinking water and wear sensible shoes Vintographers David Jenkins, Jill Lacina, Tony Peri and Kirsten Spry WHEN: Sunday 15 September 2013, 9:00 AM - 11:30 AM follow in the footsteps of the earliest photographers, using vintage WHERE: Stanton Library, 234 Miller Street, North Sydney image-making processes to create modern artworks. These alternative Disability Access. Parking Available. photographers will discuss their contemporary photographs hand- COST: Free, but bookings essential. made from digital and film cameras as salt prints, cyanotypes, wet-plate CONTACT: Stanton Library, [email protected], 02-9936-8400 collodion ‘Tintypes’, and photogravures. Tony Peri will demonstrate one WEB: www.northsydney.nsw.gov.au of these techniques, by making a bromoil print (oil pigment photograph).
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WHERE: Stanton Library, 234 Miller Street, North Sydney T YPE: EXHIBITION Disability Access. Parking Available. HOSTED BY: RANDWICK CITY COUNCIL
COST: $5.00 Join us for the launch of our exciting new exhibition at Bowen Library, CONTACT: Stanton Library, [email protected], 02 9936 8400 showcasing the photography of Alan Lloyd. Alan has captured the WEB: www.northsydney.nsw.gov.au beautiful art deco architecture of Randwick, Coogee and Maroubra in an extensive photographic archive that will be showcased in this exhibition. Art Deco objects will also be on display, loaned by the local DISCOVERING THE HOLTERMANN ESTATE community to enhance this exhibition. Following the launch and lunch, Alan Lloyd will speak at 2 pm about his work in accumulating this T YPE: WALKING TOUR HOSTED BY: STANTON LIBRARY important photographic archive. Event is free but bookings are essential for catering purposes. Well known for the extraordinary panorama of Sydney Harbour taken from his Lavender Bay mansion, Bernard Otto Holtermann previously WHEN: 14 September 2013, 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM resided in the spacious grounds of St Leonards Lodge, now Crows Nest, WHERE: Bowen Library, 689-673 Anzac Parade, Maroubra which was subdivided when he moved to Lavender Bay. This walk takes COST: Free in the site of the original Holtermann home and explores the Victorian CONTACT: Georgina Keep, [email protected], 02 9314 4888
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COST: $10.00 ART DECO ARCHITECTURE IN RANDWICK CONTACT: Georgina Keep, [email protected], 02 9314 4888
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Join Alan Lloyd and Georgina Keep for a guided tour of Randwick’s art T YPE: TALK / LECTURE deco past. This walking tour will take in highlights of Randwick’s most HOSTED BY: RANDWICK CITY LIBRARY striking examples of art deco architecture. It is a prelude to the Picture Perfect exhibition at Bowen Library, opening on 14 September. Places Local photographer Alan Lloyd will look at the surviving examples limited. Payment must be at the time of booking at any branch of the of Art Deco architecture in the Randwick and Coogee area. Using his Randwick City Library Service. extensive collection of local photographs, he will discuss the application of art deco’s geometric shapes and ornamentation in local construction WHEN: 11 September 2013 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM during the interwar years. The talk will be presented in conjunction WHERE: Randwick City Library, Level 1 Royal Randwick Shopping Centre with the exhibition of Alan Lloyd’s photographs on the Art Deco Belmore Road, Randwick Architecture of Randwick and Coogee at the Bowen Library. COST: $10.00 Saturday 14 September 2013, 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM CONTACT: Georgina Keep, [email protected], 02 9314 4888 WHEN: WHERE: Randwick City Library, Level 1 Royal Randwick Shopping Centre Belmore Road, Randwick ART DECO ARCHITECTURE IN COOGEE COST: Free, bookings essential (gold coin donation for afternoon tea). CONTACT: Freda Backes, [email protected], 02 9349 3572 T YPE: WALKING TOUR WEB: www.randwickhistoricalsociety.org.au HOSTED BY: RANDWICK CITY LIBRARY
Join Alan Lloyd and Georgina Keep for a guided tour of Coogee’s art EMBODIED SPACES deco past. This walking tour will take in highlights of Coogee’s most striking examples of art deco architecture. It is a prelude to the Picture T YPE: TALK / LECTURE Perfect Exhibition at Bowen Library, opening on 14 September. HOSTED BY: FRIENDS OF CALLAN PARK
Places limited. Payment must be made at the time of booking at any Photographic Exhibition in conjunction with Callan Park Seminar. branch of the Randwick City Library Service. Ella Condon’s haunting photographic work arising from her research: 12 September 2013, 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM WHEN: ‘interprets the lingering presence in the spaces of the former Lunatic WHERE: Randwick City Library , Level 1 Royal Randwick Shopping Centre Asylums. Space is like a receptive membrane; walls retain memories and Belmore Road, Randwick resonate with energies of the past. Within the structure of this building,
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echoes and residues of the past remain. The challenge of my project COST: $20.00 has been how to portray these experiences, how to capture the soul of CONTACT: Roslyn Burge, [email protected], 0413 733 218 or 02 9818 5049 the space.’ Condon’s interest in presence, and a feeling of untold stories was developed in her Honours body of work. Working late at night in THE HAT - A SOCIAL HISTORY her studio at Callan Park, the unnerving feeling of a presence led her to investigate the buildings’ history further. TYPE:EXHIBITION Condon is currently undertaking research at Parsons School of Design, HOSTED BY: SYDNEY ANTIQUE CENTRE New York on behalf of Sydney College of the Arts, and is also completing The rise and decline of the hat throughout the 20th century as a Master of Fine Art (Research) at Sydney College of the Arts. depicted in photographs and original hat displays. Glennis Murphy
WHEN: 8 September 2013, 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM and Louise Murray have shops in the Sydney Antique Centre. Both WHERE: NSW Writers’ Centre, Callan Park, enter main gates at intersection of have been involved with antiques and vintage clothing for many years. Cecily and Darling Streets, Rozelle. Parking Available They believe there are many stories to be told by observing hats from COST: $20.00 the 20th Century. Roslyn Burge, [email protected], 0413 733 218 or 02 9818 5049 CONTACT: WHEN: 7 September 2013 - 15 September 2013, 10:00 AM - 6:00 PM ellacondon.com/w/embodied-space WEB: WHERE: The Exhibition Gallery/ Sydney Antique Centre, 531 South Dowling Street, Surry Hills COST: Free FOUNDATIONS OF MADNESS CONTACT: Glennis Murphy, [email protected], 02 9361 3244
T YPE: SEMINAR HOSTED BY: FRIENDS OF CALLAN PARK ‘OUT AND OUT’ This seminar features Tony Griffiths highlighting the life of Douglas Grant, a Ngadjonji man, draughtsman and digger, who designed and constructed T YPE: TALK / LECTURE the Sydney Harbour Bridge War Memorial at Callan Park. Peta Longhurst HOSTED BY: PRIDE HISTORY GROUP draws on her research into the archaeology of mental institutions in NSW Well known Sydney photographer William Yang will give an historical/ to explore the connections between psychiatric theory and Callan Park’s autobiographical presentation based on a selection of his images buildings and landscapes.The seminar will be followed by a tour of the from the late 1970s and early 1980s that first saw the emergence of an tunnels and the Harbour Bridge War Memorial at Callan Park. identifiable gay culture in Sydney.
WHEN: 8 September 2013, 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM WHEN: 7 September 2013, 7:00 PM - 8:00 PM WHERE: NSW Writers’ Centre, Callan Park, enter main gates at intersection of WHERE: Surry Hills Library & Community Centre, 405 Crown Street, Surry Hills Cecily and Darling Streets, Rozelle. Parking Available. Disability Access.
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COST: Free CONTACT: Robert French, [email protected], 02 9568 1995 DAVID BOYD: HIS ART, HIS LIFE, HIS FAMILY WEB: www.pridehistorygroup.org.au T YPE: EXHIBITION HOSTED BY: NATIONAL TRUST NSW
The exhibition David Boyd: his work, his life, his family is not just KANGAROO: THE EVOLUTION OF AN IMAGE an account of an individual, but also of a family. With more than 100 works, paintings, drawings, sculptures and ceramics by David Boyd and T YPE: TALK / LECTURE his extended family the exhibition will explore the threads that connect HOSTED BY: SYDNEY MECHANIC SCHOOL OF ARTS AND THE HISTORY COUNCIL OF NSW the works, and to reveal to the viewer that the art of David Boyd is linked intrinsically with that of this remarkable artistic dynasty. George Stubbs painted the first portrait of a kangaroo by a European based on a skin and some rough sketches brought back The exhibition includes the works of five generations of the Boyd by Sir Joseph Banks, who travelled on the Endeavour with Captain family including David’s grandparents and great grandparents; his James Cook. own parents Doris and Merric; brothers Arthur and Guy; sisters Mary In his talk, John Simons will address the way in which George and Lucy; daughters Amanda, Lucinda, Cassandra and his late wife, Stubbs’ painting of a kangaroo and the many subsequent Hermia. There will also be works by members of the wider Boyd family, engravings that it generated produced a standardised way of seeing including John Perceval and Sidney Nolan. kangaroos in Australia for much of the nineteenth century. The 17 August 2013 - 23 September 2013, 11:00 AM - 5:00 PM talk will consider the significance of this and address some of the WHEN: ways in which other images challenged the Stubbsian orthodoxy. WHERE: S.H. Ervin Gallery, Watson Road, Observatory Hill, The Rocks, Sydney. Disability Access. Parking Available. This talk is presented as part of the Speaker Connect program, a COST: $5.00 partnership between the History Council of NSW and the Royal CONTACT: S.H. Ervin Gallery, [email protected], 02 9258 0173 Australian Historical Society. Supported by Your Community www.nationaltrust.com.au/placestovisit/sheg Heritage. Can’t make this talk? It will be available online later in WEB: the year.
WHEN: Tuesday, 10 September, 12.30 pm to 1.30 pm THE PHOTO-MAD 20TH CENTURY WHERE: Sydney Mechanics School of Arts, 280 Pitt Street, Sydney. Disability Access T YPE: TALK / LECTURE HOSTED BY: WE A SYDNE Y COST: Free CONTACT: Melanie Ryan, [email protected] In 1896 Kodak released the first re-loadable roll-film camera. From that point on and into the 20th century, photography became a simple affordable
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enjoyment for millions of people. People took to the outdoors and captured WHEN: 8 September 2013 - 13 September 2013, 10:30 AM - 3:00 PM images of everything. This presentation will demonstrate how, as the WHERE: Kuo Min Tang, 75 Ultimo Road, Haymarket, Sydney 20th century progressed and cameras increased in sophistication, the art COST: Free of people-photos flourished and evolved. The cameras technical advances CONTACT: Kuo Min Tang, [email protected], 02 9211 5865 in the 1930s enabled portraits to be taken in adverse lighting resulting in a change to the art of portraiture. The talk will also explain how from the late 1950s an innocence seemed to diminish in the style of portrait capture so A PICTURE AND A THOUSAND WORDS that by the end of the century and under the influence of pop-culture and T YPE: TALK / LECTURE the deliberate discarding of photographic technique, people and fashion HOSTED BY: UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY photography had almost become an in your face form of visceral images. Is a picture really worth a thousand words? Help decide over a cocktail WHEN: 8 September 2013, 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM in an award-winning small bar at this unique event. See (and hear) WEA Sydney, WEA House, 72 Bathurst Street, Sydney. Disability Access WHERE: historians Matthew Allen, Hannah Forsyth, Dave Earl and Nick Irving $10.00 COST: discuss the context and creation of some captivating historical images. CONTACT: Natalia Borisova, [email protected], 02 9268 7530 In just ten minutes, the speakers will delve into the histories of four fascinating, but largely unexplored subjects: Norman Lindsay’s women,
HISTORIC IMAGES OF KUO MIN TANG IN SYDNEY the Vietnam moratoriums, the role of alcohol in Australian society, and the creation of farm colonies for ‘subnormal’ boys and men.
T YPE: EXHIBITION WHEN: 9 September 2013, 6:30 PM - 7:15 PM HOSTED BY: CHINESE NATIONALIST PARTY OF AUSTRALIA WHERE: Grasshopper Bar, 1 Temperance Lane, Sydney During the History Week 2013 the Kuo Min Tang is pleased to invite COST: Free, but bookings essential. you to a photographic exhibition of historic images of Kuo Min Tang’s CONTACT: Dave Earl, [email protected] members and their families and friends across Australia and the Pacific Islands. Since 1922, the headquarters of Kuo Min Tang at 75 Ultimo Road in Haymarket has become the center of social and cultural activities NOTABLE AUSTRALIANS for the Sydney Chinese community, and the site for dances, dinners, T YPE: EXHIBITION social gatherings and the screening of Chinese movies. The exhibition HOSTED BY: RESERVE BANK OF AUSTRALIA will testify to the rich history of the Sydney Chinese community and its connections with broader Chinese communities in Australia and Most of us see famous Australians every day. Every time we use Pacific Islands. The exhibition will be launched by Mr. Eugene Seeto and Australian banknotes, we spot celebrated identities who were prominent Professor Judith Brett at 10:30 am on 8th September 2013. for their endeavours. A new booklet produced by the Reserve Bank guides us through their individual histories, and compares their
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appearance on the banknotes with other portraits depicting them. rests with the RAHS. To honour Frank Walker’s contribution to the Visit the Reserve Bank’s Museum during History Week to collect a preservation of historical images, the RAHS is holding a lecture and copy of the booklet, and to explore the Museum’s story of the nation’s exhibition that make selections from his photographic collections and banknotes, discovering the ways that they have reflected the changing scrap albums available. face, and character, of the country. WHEN: 9 September 2013, 05:30 PM for 06:00 PM start - 7:00 PM WHEN: 9 September 2013 - 13 September 2013, 10:00 AM - 4:00 PM WHERE: History House, 133 Macquarie Street, Sydney. Disability Access. WHERE: Museum of Australian Currency Notes, 65 Martin Place, Sydney COST: Free Disability Access. CONTACT: RAHS, [email protected], 02 9247 8001 COST: Free CONTACT: [email protected], 02 9551 9743 THE PHOTOGRAPHIC RECORD WEB: www.rba.gov.au/Museum
T YPE: TALK / LECTURE EXPLORE THE COLLECTIONS OF FRANK WALKER HOSTED BY: ROYAL AUSTRALIAN HISTORICAL SOCIETY The National Archives of Australia holds an extensive collection of T YPE: EXHIBITION photographic and audiovisual records created by Commonwealth HOSTED BY: ROYAL AUSTRALIAN HISTORICAL SOCIETY government agencies. Paul Wood, acting Assistant Director, Access and The Royal Australian Historical Society invites you to explore the Communication in the Sydney office of the National Archives, will provide images collected by one of its beloved past Presidents. In the late an overview of these records and provide an insight into this collection. 19th and early 20th centuries Frank Walker, an inaugural member WHEN: 10 September 2013, 05:30 PM for 06:00 PM start - 7:30 PM of the Australian (later Royal) Historical Society cycled over 22,000 WHERE: History House, 133 Macquarie Street, Sydney. Disability Access miles (almost 35,000 kms) around country New South Wales taking COST: Free thousands of photographs on glass plate negatives, some of which he CONTACT: RAHS, [email protected], 02 9247 8001 used as a lantern slides for his many lectures. Other images were also reproduced as illustrations in historical articles, and some were issued as postcards by Sydney publisher Tyrrell’s and are now considered AN AFTERNOON TEA WITH A DIFFERENCE collectors items. T YPE: OTHER In the spirit of a true archivist, Walker was determined that the HOSTED BY: ROYAL AUTOMOBILE CLUB OF AUSTRALIA extensive historical information he had amassed should not be lost to future generations. With this aim, he compiled scrap albums of news Guests will be asked to bring along their own precious images. cuttings, photographs and ephemera. Much of his personal archive now This would be an excellent opportunity to exchange stories based on
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the photographic images from their personal family collections. Most WHEN: 12 September 2013, 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM families have such photo-collections and this will be an occasion to WHERE: History House, 133 Macquarie Street, Sydney relate those stories to a responsive audience outside of the family. Disability Access What better way to show off your family photographic history without COST: Free, but bookings essentials. the limiting confines of family comment? CONTACT: Military History Society of NSW Inc., [email protected] or [email protected], 02 9660 7225 During the afternoon guests will hear the history and the background of our unique collection of the Society’s Miniatures and later an opportunity to view the originals in our Sirius Room. Guests will IDENTITY AND ASPIRATION also hear the story of Sydney’s Spit Bridge with the presentation of the photographic images of how it evolved and the progressive bridge T YPE: TALK / LECTURE building as it occurred. The Society’s collection of memorabilia will be HOSTED BY: AUSTRALIAN HERALDRY SOCIETY on display on this occasion. In an illustrated presentation, Stephen Michael Szabo will examine WHEN: 12 September 2013, 2:30 PM - 4:30 PM several examples of individuals who sought grants of arms and then WHERE: The Sirius Room, Level 5, The Royal Automobile Club of Australia, used them in a variety of artistic and ornamental media in order to 89 Macquarie Street, Sydney reshape their identities and status in colonial Australia. Stephen Michael COST: $10.00, includes afternoon tea Szabo is a graduate of the University of Sydney. When not scraping CONTACT: Lorna Ford, 02 9522 8924 a living in the NSW Public Service, he obsessively pursues research into various aspects of heraldry, but especially the use and display of heraldry in colonial Australia. THE LOST DIGGERS WHEN: Friday 13 September 2013, 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
T YPE: TALK / LECTURE WHERE: Sydney Mechanics School of Arts, 280 Pitt Street, Sydney. Disability Access HOSTED BY: MILITARY HISTORY SOCIETY OF NSW COST: Gold Coin Donation CONTACT: Stephen Michael Szabo, [email protected], 0431 701 055 This lecture by Ms Lauren Hewitt, Curator of Photographs at the www.heraldryaustralia.org Australian War Memorial, will be based on a collection of 800 WEB: photographic plates found in the attic of a farmhouse in Vignacourt, France. This remarkable collection of images recording the lives of diggers stationed in Vignacourt during World War I was acquired by Mr Kerry Stokes and generously donated to the Australian War Memorial.
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WEDDING PORTRAITS - PORTRAIT OF A NATION A VIEW ALONG THE CORRIDORS OF POWER T YPE: TALK / LECTURE AT SYDNEY TOWN HALL HOSTED BY: CHINESE HERITAGE ASSOCIATION OF AUSTRALIA
Using wedding album portraits, Dr Kathie Blunt will explore how T YPE: OPEN DAY Asian/Australian marriages that took place between 1945-1970, when HOSTED BY: CITY OF SYDNEY the White Australia policy was still in force, were actually forging In 19th century Sydney, commissioning a painted portrait was a and maintaining links with the Asia/Pacific region. Significantly, marker of person’s position in society. For those select aldermen these portraits reveal a historical cultural shift in Australian society. on the City of Sydney Council who were elected to the position Through the legacy of their children, a new national portrait was of mayor, a portrait demonstrated their rank in society but also recognised the rank of office. The City’s Civic Collection contains created - a new ‘face of the nation’ - a truly Australasian one. In addition, a rich selection of portraits of former mayors and lord mayors. This using newspaper cartoons and other photographic material from the open day will be a unique opportunity to explore the ‘corridors of colonial era, attitudes towards Asian/Australian relationships that have power’ at Sydney Town Hall. Join the City’s Curatorial and History permeated the Australian psyche will be also be explored. Units to view portraits from the collection. Floor talks will be held
WHEN: 14 September 2013, 2:30 PM - 4:30 PM hourly from 12.30PM to 3.30PM.
WHERE: Sydney Mechanics School of Arts, 280 Pitt Street, Sydney. Disability Access. WHEN: Saturday 14 September 2013, 12:00 PM - 4:00 PM COST: $10.00 General, $8.00 Members WHERE: Sydney Town Hall, 483 George Street, Sydney. CONTACT: Dr Kathie Blunt, [email protected], 02 4861 3078 Disability Access. WEB: www.chineseheritage.org.au COST: Free CONTACT: Laila Ellmoos, [email protected], 02 9246 7274 WEB: coslibrary.eventbrite.com.au
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WHEN: 10 September 2013, 9:30 AM - 12:30 PM PICTURE IT - MACQUARIE THEN AND NOW WHERE: Powerhouse Museum, 500 Harris Street, Ultimo. Disability Access COST: $30.00 General, $20.00 Concession T YPE: WALKING TOUR CONTACT: Anni Thurnbull, [email protected], 02 9217 0168 HOSTED BY: ULTIMATELY SYDNEY
Enjoy a leisurely one hour walking tour of Macquarie Street. Discover why Lachlan Macquarie was named ‘The Father of Australia’ and how he left our shores in disgrace. Along your walk, your guide will discuss images PHOTOGRAPHER DAVID MIST CELEBRATES taking you back in time to the early 19th century to uncover Sydney’s THE SWINGING SIXTIES, AGAIN! fascinating past. Finish your tour with a photograph of the great man himself. Prizes will be given to anyone who shows up dressed in period. T YPE: TALK / LECTURE WHEN: 8 and 15 September 2013, 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM HOSTED BY: POWERHOUSE MUSEUM WHERE: Macquarie Street (Walking Tour), cnr Macquarie and Bridge Streets, Modelled on the Birds of Britain book of 1967 which featured entrance to the Botanic Gardens, Sydney photographs of influential young British women like Mary Quant, Disability Access. Parking Available. Dusty Springfield and Marion Faithfull, David Mist’sMade in COST: $25.00 General, $20.00 Concession, $60.00 Family Pass Australia book of 1969 focused on Australian ‘bird life’. Revisit the era in conversation with photographer, David Mist and Museum CONTACT: Helen Fraser, [email protected], 0407 903 162 curator, Anne-Marie Van de Ven as David chats about the 60 odd WEB: www.ultimatelysydney.com.au black and white shots he took of trendsetting young Australian dress designers, artists and models, TV, radio and business personalities like Olivier Newton-John, Maggi Eckardt, Prue Acton, CARING FOR PHOTOGRAPHS Georgie Gold and Marion Hall Best.
T YPE: WORKSHOP WHEN: 11 September 2013, 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM HOSTED BY: POWERHOUSE MUSEUM WHERE: Powerhouse Museum, 500 Harris Street, Ultimo. Disability Photographs are a wonderful visual record of history and everyone Access. collects them. But that history can disappear if they are not looked COST: Free with Museum entry (Adult $12.00, Concession $8.00, after properly. In this workshop, you can find out about different Family $30.00) photographic processes and learn conservation techniques such as CONTACT: Anni Turnbull, [email protected], 02 9217 0168 surface cleaning, appropriate storage and archival framing of photos. The second session will demonstrate how to get good results from digitising and scanning your collection. Morning tea included.
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Castle to Colony
The Remarkable Life and Times of Lucy Sarah Gray (1840–1879)
BY M EG VIV ER S Lucy Gray (née Waters) (1840–1879) grew up in Ireland during the Famine. At twenty-two, she travelled to New Zealand and then to Australia. She would later settle in a remote region of north Queensland. This biography is centred around Gray’s own account of her remarkable experiences. As well as an articulate and creative writer, Lucy was also a talented artist, and many of her drawings and watercolour paintings are included in the book.
‘Of all the depictions of colonial Australia which survive from a woman’s point of view, Lucy Gray’s is among the richest and best…’ EMERITUS PROFESSOR ALAN ATKINSON
Hardcover, RRP $39.50, ISBN: 978-1876344924, CopyRight Publishing Brisbane Copies at a discount from: Dr Meg Vivers, 95 Tulong Road, Armidale, NSW 2350, Australia [email protected], phone: (02) 6775 2242 The History Council of NSW would like to thank all organisations involved in creating events for the annual History Week 2013 program. History Week is an initiative of the History Council of NSW. We support and facilitate the registration of the events hosted by organisations and individuals during the week. The History Council of NSW is not responsible or liable for the content, quality or outcome of any registered event for History Week 2013. All images sourced have been approved by the respective authorities. All information provided was correct at the time of printing, however may be subject to change. Please contact the individual event hosts to verify event details.
DESIGN: IddyBiddy Studio www.iddybiddystudio.com FRONT IMAGE : Dulcie in the leopard skin costume worn to the Artists’ Ball, 1924 [i.e. 1923], image courtesy State Library of NSW.
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