Search results for 'Judith McKay'

Members' Awards on Australia Day

Members of the Australiana Society have many distinctions. Our president Colin Thomas has already praised the work of Di Dorothy Erickson AM on receiving her Member of the Order of Australia award, but at least two more Australiana Society members were honoured. Julian Bickersteth AO and Dr Judith McK...

Reclaiming a Suite of Queensland Colonial Furniture

Adelaide House, Alice Springs: an outback house museum

Curator Judith McKay focuses on a unique house museum in the Northern Territory, originally planned in 1920 by the Rev. John Flynn of Flying Doctor fame as a model outback hospital. Its most remarkable feature was a passive ventilation system designed to cool the building on the Coolgardie safe princ...

Trust the women: women lead the way in preserving Queensland's heritage

One of the first events organised by the Australiana Society’s Queensland Chapter was a visit to Miegunyah, the historic house museum owned and operated by the Queensland Women’s Historical Association in Bowen Hills, Brisbane for the past 50 years. For the visit in June 2018, local member Judith McKay acte...

Book review: Judith White, ‘Culture Heist. Art versus Money’

udith White, Culture Heist. Art versus Money, Brandl & Schlesinger, Sydney 2017. Paperback 246 pp

The National Museum of Australian Pottery

Australian pottery exhibitions in Queensland

William Kerr, Colonial Silversmith 1838-1896

J. A. Clarke's ‘grand picture’ of Brisbane

Harold Parker: the forgotten sculptor