Creative arts

View of Rouse Hill House & Farm
Onsite

A Colonial Eye

Students investigate the role of artists during the early colonial period and consider how they contributed to the development of the colony

Some kitchen items on the table in front of the fireplace
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Colonial Life at Elizabeth Farm

As they explore the Macarthur family home, which dates from 1793, students learn about the lives of the family and their convict servants and the impact of colonisation on the traditional owners of the Parramatta area

The Regent, New South Wales 1819, R. Browne pinxt, no.27 Philip Street, Sydney / Richard Browne

From the collection: Richard Browne watercolours

A Dublin-born convict artist, Richard Browne spent most of his seven-year sentence at the secondary penal settlement of Newcastle. In 1812–13 he was commissioned to make a series of drawings to illustrate a planned natural history publication

Painting of rectangular modernist house with white ramp on righthand side in bushland setting.

From the collection: Rose Seidler House artwork

The Rose Seidler House, Christopher Zanko, 2020, acrylic on wood relief carving. Sydney Living Museums

Vibrant pencil and watercolour image with animal eyes and swirling patterns.

King's Cross: bohemian life In Sydney

Artists, intellectuals, writers, radicals, revellers and misfits made Sydney's King's Cross home from the early years of the 20th century well into the 1970s

Children and adults dressed in period costume holding ribbons attached to pole.
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Lessons from the Past

Integrating outcomes from History, PDHPE and Creative Arts, this program gives students the opportunity to learn firsthand about what school life was like in the late 19th century

Two children, one seated, at piano in drawing room.

Meet the movie maker

To launch a fundraising campaign to mark the centenary of Vaucluse House as a public museum, Sydney Living Museums worked with Gregory Read from Paperbark Films

[1] Rhodanthe anthemoides [2] Zerochrysum [3] Coronidium oxylepis [4] Chrysocephalum : watercolour by Gertrude Lovegrove, c1891

The artist and botanical collector

There are only a handful of known remaining copies of 'The Wild Flowers of New South Wales', a small booklet of watercolours and descriptions published in the late 19th century by Shoalhaven-based artist Gertrude Lovegrove and botanical collector William Bäuerlen