Title

Garden of the East: photography in Indonesia 1850s-1940s.

Venues

National Gallery Of Australia (21 February 2014 – 22 June 2014)

Date

(2014)

Summary

Multi-artist exhibition. Located: Australia (ACT). Photographs.

Curator

Gail Newton

Documentation

Catalogue

Abstract

In 1852, at the age of eighteen, Walter B Woodbury left behind his engineering apprenticeship in Manchester to try his luck halfway around the world in Australia’s Victorian goldfields. On arrival, he realised the easy pickings were gone and he took a variety of jobs, soon changing from a rather sheltered British ‘new chum’ into a seasoned colonial. [Gallery publicity]