Category: Publications

‘MANNING CLARK HOUSE: REFLECTIONS’, 2002, MCH CANBERRA ‘…Manning Clark House has long been a place where creative people, politicians, servants of the public, craftsmen, labourers and their friends met and talked and talked and talked. At the same time, four generations of a family used the house as a home. The two purposes often intersected,…

‘THOROUGHLY MODERN: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF MALCOLM MOIR + HEATHER SUTHERLAND’, CANBERRA 2012 ‘…Heather McDonald Sutherland and Malcolm Johnson Moir were born in Sydney in 1903 within two days of each other. Heather was born 25 May 1903 at Point Piper, the eldest of four children from her father William’s first marriage to Clare.…

THE AUSTRALIAN ADVENTURE OF PEREGRINE LANGTON MASSINGBERD , TAKEN FROM JOURNAL 16 OF PEREGRINE LANGTON MASSINGBERD 1832-1833: AN EDITED AND ILLUSTRATED TRANSCRIPTION ‘…he [Peregrine Langton Massingberd] showed me… his paintings… eight of which were views taken in Tasminia [sic] … All these paintings were every one of them most interesting performances. Nothing could be more…

‘HONG KONG HOUSE’, HKETO SYDNEY, WATERMARK PRESS, 2012 This book was prepared for the Hong Kong Economic & Trade Office, to celebrate the history, connections and presence of Hong Kong in Sydney and Australia. The 144 page 25 cms. square format book was published by HKETO as a ‘cultural gift’ for Chinese and Australasian clients…

‘THE WALLPAPERED MANSE: THE RESCUE OF AN ENDANGERED HOUSE’, 2013 This book is about the former Presbyterian Manse in Moruya, a coastal town on the south coast of NSW. The publication traces the history of the manse since its construction in 1865 and the conservation project, which has brought the property back to life. But…

DOMAIN HOUSE: The University of Tasmania Returns to the Queens Domain, 2015 DOMAIN HOUSE: THE UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA RETURNS TO THE QUEENS DOMAIN has been commissioned by the University of Tasmania to commemorate the University’s establishment in 1890, and to document the life and times of the University’s first home, the former High School of…

‘THREE COTTAGE LANDSCAPES: A REFLECTION ON FORTY YEARS OF CONSERVATION PRACTICE’, 2013 In the Journal of the Australian Garden History Society, January 2013. ‘ … Strong regional characteristics of the eastern Riverina in NSW, the NSW south coast, and southern Italy, both differentiate and unite each of the cottage landscapes lovingly conserved and retold here’. An…