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Weaving lomandra on Gumeroi country
First Nations

Weaving their magic: Amy Hammond and Lorrelle Munro

We spoke to weavers Amy and Lorrelle, co-founders of Yinarr Maramali and weavers-in-residence at The Weaving Room in the Museum of Sydney

Brilliant little jewels – Chinese pith watercolours

Watercolours on pith paper that were produced in China for the Western export trade through most of the 19th century still have an extraordinary vividness

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

Threads in the archives

Non-paper materials are not common in the State Archives Collection and the wonderful details, colours and textures captured in these items are a beautiful sight to see

Children and adults dressed in period costume holding ribbons attached to pole.
Onsite

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

Candid street photograph of pedestrians taken in Martin Place, Sydney, by an unknown Ikon Studio photographer during 1950.

Vali Myers: teenage Ikon in street photograph

Two young women stride confidently, hand in hand, up Sydney’s Martin Place on a sunny winter’s day in 1950

[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

Meet Andrei Davidoff

In 2015 our artist-in-residence, Andrei Davidoff, set up his potter's wheel at Vaucluse House and created an intriguing collection of site-inspired ceramic pieces

Students sitting on the hillside, creating a watercolour painting of the view towards the Blue Mountains.
Onsite

TEST 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