Members Hour: Museum of Sydney
Welcome to Members Hour at the Museum of Sydney
Explore the stunning exhibition Coomaditchie: The Art of Place with First Nations Curator Tess Allas.
Tess will discuss her own family’s activism in Aboriginal affairs and human and workers rights in the Illawarra and across NSW that fed into the activism of the times more broadly throughout the nation.
Celebrating the 30th anniversary of the founding of the Coomaditchie United Aboriginal Corporation in the Illawarra in 1993, the exhibition showcases works by the Coomaditchie artists.
Members receive 10% off retail and dining at This Way Canteen.
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About the curator
Related exhibition
![The first three decades (decade 3), Coomaditchie artists and community members, 2022, acrylic on unstretched canvas, 302cm x 213.5 cm.
Coomaditchie United Aboriginal Corporation](https://images.mhnsw.au/fotoweb/embed/2024/01/1d30872a02ee4f2b96517367cc5a0024.jpg)
Now showing
Featured exhibition
Coomaditchie: The Art of Place
Experience community life by the ocean through the works of First Nations artists in Coomaditchie: The Art of Place at the Museum of Sydney. These loving and lyrical artworks, which include paintings, ceramics and screen-prints, speak of life in and around the settlement of Coomaditchie, its history, ecology and local Dreaming stories
Saturday 30 March
Museum of Sydney
Corner Phillip and Bridge streets, Sydney NSW 2000- Cafe
- Wheelchair accessible
- Wednesday 28 August 9am–10am
Related stories
![Coomaditchie Lagoon](https://images.mhnsw.au/fotoweb/embed/2024/04/0146a69a326e4242a1171dee896b8cfe.jpg)
First Nations
Coomaditchie: The Art of Place
The works of the Coomaditchie artists speak of life in and around the settlement of Coomaditchie, its history, ecology and local Dreaming stories
![The mission, Lorraine Brown, 2007](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/zl9du87e/production/bc5573a87b323b94815e4a7562745ea4633a1e19-1500x894.jpg?fit=max&auto=format)
First Nations
Coomaditchie: Of place
These works record the extraordinary arc the artists of Coomaditchie have travelled over more than three decades
![Dragonflies, Meahala Langlo-Brown, 2022](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/zl9du87e/production/0d73ddc96d371d6ff15502e7a7f258fc564f46c7-2000x693.jpg?fit=max&auto=format)
First Nations
Coomaditchie: Lagoon stories
These panels detail the ecological life in and around Coomaditchie Lagoon
![A view of the shacks on the Port Kembla end of the Official Camp](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/zl9du87e/production/4e0e7656fd107783a5624f4fefd8644d2d287338-1644x981.jpg?fit=max&auto=format)
The fight for Coomaditchie
Listen to audio recordings and read transcripts of selected letters held in the State Archives Collection