The late 18th century was a period of acute interNational rivalry between France and Britain in the advancement of science and Pacific exploration. The spirit of the age was overwhelmingly scientific, dominated by Enlightenment concepts such as knowledge, progress, reason and truth.
[State Library of New South Wales, NSW ]

An exhibition from the Picture Collection of the State Library of Victoria, featuring photographs by Warren Kirk. My photographs are personal documents of ordinary, everyday objects and places that are survivors of a past within my memory - and that are of interest because of their impending extinction.
[State Library of Victoria, VIC ]

This exhibition shows a great range of artists books currently being produced by young German artists. The genre of the livre d'artiste, or artist's book is a very popular one in the US, Britain, Europe and Australia. It is the result of an artist looking at the conventions of book production and seeing what can be done within them. Often the conventions are stretched in some way, typically by using materials which make a statement about the book's content, and producing a concept.
[Monash University Library, VIC ]

An exhibition from the Picture Collection of the State Library of Victoria, featuring photographs by Warren Kirk. My photographs are personal documents of ordinary, everyday objects and places that are survivors of a past within my memory - and that are of interest because of their impending extinction.
[State Library of Victoria, VIC ]

Five Prime Ministers served Australia during the war years - Menzies, Fadden, Curtin, Forde and Chifley. The nation's key decision-making bodies, the Cabinet, War Cabinet and Advisory War Council, decided the direction of the war effort in meetings held mainly at Parliament House in Canberra and Victoria Barracks in Melbourne, supported by the hard work and dedication of staff in the Prime Minister's Department and the War Cabinet Secretariat. This web publication takes you inside the walls of the offices and meeting places where the course of the war was directed and invites you to explore the stories of the places and people who worked there.
[John Curtin Prime Ministerial Library, WA ]

An exhibition of girls' annuals from 1880-1960 illustrating the changing themes over the period, particularly with regard to women's roles in society. April 22 to June 9 1996.
[State Library of Victoria, VIC ]

An exhibition of significant plates from the State Library's important collection of eighteenth and nineteenth century illustrated books on the landscapes, flora, fauna and indigenous peoples of the Australian and Pacific regions.
[State Library of Victoria, VIC ]

The Doug Moran National Portrait Prize 1998 exhibition of portrait paintings depicted a cross-section of Australian society. The Prize requires that both painters and subjects be Australian citizens, but not that the subject should be in any way well known.
[State Library of New South Wales, NSW ]