Colonisation

A hand-coloured aquatint of views in the island of Sri Lanka

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

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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

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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

Vue de George’s Street a Sydney [Nouvelle Galles du Sud]
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