Reflections on Australian Seashores: A floor talk

To mark the closing of our successful photography exhibition Australian Seashores, join curator Dr Anthony Gill for a free floor talk in which he will guide us through the exhibition Australian Seashores and research into the remarkable work by William J Dakin, Isobel Bennett and Elizabeth Carrington Pope.

Tony will reflect on how the exhibition has been received and feedback from family, past students and users of the book Australian Seashores (1952) to demonstrate the remarkable impact that Australian Seashores continues to have in terms of Australian's understand our own environment and how exhibitions continue to evolve.

Tony Gill has had more than 40 years of experience volunteering or working in natural history museums, beginning with an internship at the Australian Museum in 1981. Prior to joining the Macleay Museum in 2010, he was a researcher of shallow marine fishes for the Natural History Museum, London, and museum curator in the School of Life Sciences and assistant director for collections in the International Institute for Species Exploration, Arizona State University.

Tony received his PhD from the University of New England in 1991 based on research conducted at the Australian Museum. He was later a Smithsonian Postdoctoral Fellow in the National Museum of Natural History, Washington, D.C. and Lerner-Gray Research Fellow in the American Museum of Natural History, New York.

Header image: William Dakin examing zonation pattern on rocky shore, Long Reef, Sydney, NSW, Macleay Collections, HP84.7.11.1 a