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After an introduction from TMAG curator Peter Hughes who co-curated the museum's Lloyd Rees exhibition Lands of Light: Lloyd Rees and Tasmania, the esteemed Australian architect Richard Leplastrier, friend and student of Lloyd Rees, speaks about the importance of Tasmania for Lloyd Rees and the impact of his wisdom and teaching.

Listen to Chris Tassell speak about the research into the Maritime Museum of Tasmania's recent acquisition of an extraordinary colonial sculpture which is regarded as a vituperative political comment on Governor George Arthur.

To view Chris's slide show while listening to him speak, click here.

Listen to Nick Mooney, Sally Bryant and Andrew Young provide different perspectives on the state of nature conservation in Tasmania and how we can all help. To view Sally and Andrew's Powerpoint presentations while listening to them speaking, click here.

Listen to retired TMAG Curator of Cultural Heritage, Ian Terry, as he speaks about his three year truth-telling project photographing the landscapes George Augustus Robinson passed through on his Big River Mission in 1831.

To view Ian's slide presentation while listening to his talk, click here.

Forest canopy ecologist Yoav Daniel Bar-Ness spoke to members about the Giant Eucalyptus Specimen Archive. After introducing the project, he spoke about individual trees, the Tasmanian Herbarium collections, and described the catastrophic backstory to this project and the lessons learnt.

To view Yoav's slide show while listening to his talk, click here.

On the fourth anniversary of her project Extinction Studies Dr Lucienne Rickard spoke to members about the life events, career progression and passions that have led her to perform one of the longest-running artworks to take place at our museum. 

To view Lucienne's slide show while listening to her speak, click here.

Here are the reports presented at our AGM. Read about what the Friends have been up to over the past year.

Agenda 2023 Minutes 2022.pdf

President's Report 2023.pdf

Treasurer's Report 2023.pdf

Following the 2023 AGM newly appointed TMAG Senior Curator, Cultural Heritage, Eleanor Cave, gave an entertaining talk on her life as a collection manager for ten years at the Australian War Memorial. Among other things she described grappling with hazardous materials, live ammunition and finding somewhere to store very large pieces of military hardware.

To view Eleanor's slide show while listening to her talk, click here.

In this talk art curator Mary Knights provides a brief introduction to TMAG's current Charles Dickens inspired exhibition Twist, and president of the NSW Dickens Society Walter Mason gives and entertaining account of the life and work of Dickens himself.

The recording is accompanied a slide show of works displayed in TMAG's exhibition. To access these images while listening to Mary and Walter, click here.

In 2021 TMAG's soft coral expert, Dr Kirrily Moore, joined the RV Investigator for a four week research voyage off the Western Australian coast. In this talk Kirrily Moore tells us about the voyage and its results.

To view Kirrily's slide presentation while listening to her talk, click here.