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Ship's Log 1872-1873 Index: Royal Society Collection
Get PDFShip's Log 1872-1873
Log book 1872, Aug. - Jul. 1873.
Log of schooner 'Lavinia' on a voyage from Sydney to
the Solomon Islands.
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Kirsty Boyle (Art Forum)
No full textKirsty Boyle will give an introduction & then an overview of the world of Karakuri from ancient Japan to Sony robots. Japan’s love of robots lies in the history of the ‘Karakuri Ningyo’. Karakuri = a mechanical device to tease, trick, or take a person by surprise. It implies hidden magic, or an element of mystery.
Boyle will also be discussing new media robot culture & some recent projects – 'tree ceremony', commissioned by the Museum Tinguely & Kunsthaus Graz for the Robot Dreams exhibition touring 2010 – 2011; ‘love the robots’ - a showcase combining media art, network performance, informal lecture & discussion centered around the theme of robots, contemporary art, culture & society and 'ocean of air', a collaboration with UN climate change scientist Ramon Guardans & Tega Brain.
Kirsty Boyle is an Australian artist whose passion for robots has driven her to travel the world in order to work with other like-minded artists & scientists. The historical & cultural aspects of science in society continue to be a major theme that informs her artistic practice. During 2002, Kirsty began study under Mr Tamaya Shobei, a ninth generation Karakuri Ningyo craftsman & last remaining mechanical doll Master in Japan. She is currently his only student, & the only woman to have ever been trained in the tradition.
Her practice is truly interdisciplinary, encompassing skills in sculpture, theatrical performance, film & animation, digital arts & design, mechanical & electrical engineering & artificial intelligence
Toby Huddlestone (Art Forum)
No full textToby Huddlestone will be talking about his current artistic practice, which incorporates artistic production through action, documentation, curating, writing & discussing. He will also discuss his increasing use of performance when choosing to deconstruct what constitutes artistic practice, which includes all aspects of 'being' an artist, not just making artworks.
Huddlestone is a practicing contemporary artist currently based in London who also works on curatorial projects. Recent projects & exhibitions include solo shows I'm so Bored of Viewing... at The Engine Room, Wellington (2010), New Zealand, R O O M, London (2010).
He is currently curator at Crate Studio & Project Space where he is curating a twelve-month programme Exhibition as Medium, which focuses on alternate models of exhibition format. As well as having undertaken residency & commission projects at Contemporary Art Society during Istanbul Biennial (2009), Outpost as part of Contemporary Art Norwich (2009) & group exhibitions We Are Grammar, curated by Paul O'Neill & Dave Beech at Pratt Manhattan Gallery, New York (2011), DEADPAN at The Royal Standard, Liverpool (2010).
He graduated from an MA in Fine Art from the University of the West of England in 2007 & completed his BA at Swansea Institute of H.E. in 2003 & has been successful on numerous occasions raising funds for independent projects & for organisations Crate & Plan 9
Ruben Santiago (Art forum)
No full textRuben Santiago’s work scrutinises the mechanisms by which collective memory is formed and the consensual granting of its symbolic value. Through installations, site-specific projects, online mechanisms, video, objects and publications, Santiago critically analyses and exposes how networks of power are distributed in tandem with the regulations and legitimising systems of control in contemporary societies.
Strategically embracing long-term processes and ongoing methodologies, his practice – which he sees as an extended experience – becomes a negotiation tool in the artist’s active role in seeking to contest and recalibrate definitions of the real. Such recalibrations have taken shape in Drainage (2010) – a site-specific intervention commissioned by CGAC to be part of Santiago’s solo exhibition Cálculo which also included Non-computable incident (2010) – a work where Santiago was allowed to change the chemical composition of the public water in a city with 100,000 inhabitants. Non-computable incident questioned the potentiality of culture and subjectivity to achieve social transformation, and how these modes and identities can be put above public health issues when political interests are involved.
Ruben Santiago, was born 1974 in Sarria, Galicia and lives and works in Madrid, Spain
Selection of concert programs collected by Eric D B Hortin
No full textSelection of some of the many concert programs collected by Eric D B Hortin .
In 1895 Horton became the organiser of a choir which won distinction in the Tasmanian Exhibition. He was founder of the Hobart Amateur Orchestral Society and later secretary. The society was to become the Hobart Symphony Orchestra. He won the Tasmanian Public School exhibition in 1837, entered the Public Service in 1897 and was chief clerk at the Education Department until his retirement in 1940.
From: Royal Society Collection Horton Bequest RS6/4(1) album & RS 6/4(4)
3 scrap books and one folder containing press cuttings and programs of musical and theatrical performances,
mostly Tasmania
Norfolk Island plan Index: Royal Society of Tasmania Collection
Get PDFMiscellalleous returns and photocopies of plans, etc. relating to Norfolk Island c. 1848 - 1856
including New Gaol 1848 and Norfolk Island from Flagstaff Hill, the new home of the Pitcairn Islanders' from the Illustrated London News 13.12.1856
Also letter in regard to referencen to Norfork Island convict Elizabeth Parr from the Alexander Turnbull Library Wellington C.1. addressed to the curator TMAG, dated 26 Feb 1952
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Diaries of T & J M Hudspeth Index: Royal Society Collection
Get PDFThomas Hudspeth, born in 1761, was a surveyor and school master at Bowsden, Northumberland, U.K. In 1791 he married Alice Fox-Maule. Some time after 1822 he, together with four of his eight children, Elizabeth, Catherine, James and Alexander, joined his eldest son John Maule at 'Bowsden ' , Jericho, V.D.L.
John Maule Hudspeth, 1792-1837, after medical training undertook work as ship's surgeon, finally with the Hudson Bay Company in 1815. In 1817 he started practice in Bowsden, married Mary Lowrey, an old school mate in 1819 and emigrated to V.D.L. in 1822. He had an appointment as
Assistant Colonial Surgeon but his major interest was his farming property 'Bowsden'. Also includes letters from Lt.Governor
Sorell, J.Scott, Colonial Surgeon, Major T. Bell, Royal Society RS.
Sir Ernest Clark Bequest Index: Royal Society Collection
Get PDFBritish civil servant and Governor, Sir Ernest Clark was
during his career, Permanent Secretary to the Treasury,
Northern Ireland, 1921-25; Director Underground Railway
System of London; Member of the Economic Mission to
Australia, 1928-29; Governor of Tasmania, 1933-1945.
Royal Society RS.
Thomas Crouch Index: Royal Society Collection
Get PDFThomas James Crouch (1805 - 1890) was born in London,
arrived in Hobart in 1825 and was Sheriff's clerk and
in 1836 was appointed Under-Sheriff. He was a
prominent Methodist (although originally Anglican)
and also organised the Temperance Alliance. He married
Sarah Rothwell at St David's Cathedral in 1832. Sarah
became a Quaker after the Quaker missionaries James
Backhouse and G. W. Walker lodged with them. There
were several children, including Ann, who married
R.W.G. Shoobridge in 1871, Mary who married R. S. Caseley
a Wesleyan minister in South Australia, Thomas James who
became an architect and designed Melbourne G.P.O., and
George Stanton, farmer, newpaper proprietor and auctioneer,
who died in 1914.
Miscellaneous papers 1826 - 1853
Including lease, bank book, letter from G. W. Walker, gold
digging licence, correspondence of William Woollett about survey of allotment at Great Swanport, birth certificate of James
Rothwell Crouch 22 January 1843 (Quaker certificate of witness of birth), bank book of Ann Crouch, small ms music book inscribed "CC to KL".
(23 papers)
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Botanical Gardens Index. Royal Society Collection
Get PDFBOTANICAL GARDENS
See also minutes of Council Meetings.
The Botanical Gardens was originally one of the main functions of the Royal Society (first called the VDL Society for Horticulture, Botany and the Advancement of Science). The founder of the Society in 1843, the Lieutenant Governor, Sir John Eardley Wilmot, handed over to the Society 14 acres of the Colonial Gardens on the Queens Domain to be developed as Botanic Gardens on the lines of the Botanic Gardens at Kew and promised a grant of £200 a year. It was originally intended that a secretary with scientific knowledge of the leading branches of Natural History should be appointed, at a salary of not less than £200 p.a. with house, and he would be responsible for the Gardens. Indeed the Society hoped to appoint Joseph Hooker, son of William Hooker the botanist.
In 1844 the Government grant was raised to 1400 p.a. and Dr. G.F. Story was appointed Secretary at £200 p.a. The head gardener, Herbertson, a former Government House Gardener, succeeded in June 1844 by George Grant, was to take instructions from him. From the end of 1845, however, the Government grant was reduced again to 1200. The Society then proposed to appoint a 'practical botanist' who could take charge of the Gardens and also act as secretary, and wanted to appoint F.W. Newman, who arrived from Sydney in September 1845 as head gardener, as secretary. The Governor pointed out that such an appointment was 'inconsistent with the objects of the Society' as a secretary to a learned and scientific institution' should be a person 'of superior education and scientific and literary acquirements' (minutes Oct. 1845). Accordingly an Honorary Secretary, Rev. John Lillie, was elected to succeed Dr. Story from December 1845 and F.W. Newman was appointed Superintendent of the Gardens at [80 p.a. (raised in 1848 to [120). Newman died in August 1859 and Francis Abbott junior, who had served an apprenticeship under Newman from 1852 and been employed in the Gardens, was appointed Superintendent and remained until his death in 1903.
In 1885 the Gardens and Museum were transferred to the State under a Board of Trustees consisting partly of Government officials and partly of members of the Council of the Royal Society. In 1950 a new Board was established for the Botanical Gardens consisting of 4 Government nominees and representatives of the City Council, Royal Society and University of Tasmania