Convict Women in Private Assignment - 18 October 2024

Image: Ruffles on the Rajah (detail). 2018 Bern Emmerichs

Seniors Week 2024 Talk

Presented by the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery (TMAG) and Council on the Ageing (COTA) Tasmania

The Luck of the Draw:
Convict Women in Private Assignment

Come and hear about some of the convict women who were assigned to the Haig family whose ‘big house’, Narryna, is one of TMAG’s House Museums. At the conclusion of the talk, participants will be invited to visit Not So Easy: Australian Design and Identity since Federation exhibition to view the work Ruffles on the Rajah (2018) by Bern Emmerichs.

Presenter Felicity Hickman is a volunteer guide at both TMAG and Narryna and has spent many years researching the lives of Andrew and Elizabeth Haig and their servants.

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