Curator’s Tour – Making Good Exhibition
Thursday November 24
Old Government House, Parramatta Park, Parramatta
- WHAT: Curator’s Tour – Making Good Exhibition
- WHEN: 24 Nov 2022
- WHERE: Old Government House, Parramatta Park, Parramatta
- HOW MUCH: National Trust members $10, family $45, adults $24, concession $20, children under 5 enter free.
Join the Old Government House Curator, Anna Ridley, on the fourth Thursday of the month for a behind the scenes peek at Making Good: Convict Artisans in Exile.
Find out how convicts used their ingenuity, skill, perseverance, and entrepreneurship to ultimately gain their freedom in the colony, and helped to build a modern settlement in the process.
Learn more about these artisans including James Oatley, Laurence Butler, Alexander Hart, Joseph Lycett, and James Bloodsworth, and discover their complex relationships with the governors and Old Government House, and how their works went on to furnish the homes of the early elite.