Colonisation
Collection insights from a guest refugee curator
Jagath Dheerasekara has exhibited in solo and group exhibitions and his work is held in both institutional and private collections across Australia
Convict Sydney
The Convicts’ Colony
Part one starts in 1788 with Sydney established as a British convict colony on the clan lands of the Gadigal people
Convict Sydney
For the civic good
With the Napoleonic Wars over in 1815 and Britain crowded with returned soldiers, poverty and crime, part two finds the colony swamped with incoming convicts
Convict Sydney
Limits of location
In 1829, the stern-minded and ‘coldly efficient’ governor Sir Ralph Darling stood before a map of the colony and drew a semi-circular line roughly 400 kilometres from the centre of Sydney