RST Apology to Tasmanian Aboriginal people 2021.
RST Apology to Tasmanian Aboriginal people 2021.
The Hidden Treasures Walk to the West exhibition, featuring rarely seen nineteenth-century West Coast wilderness art, runs from 6 March to 10 April across two venues in Queenstown – the Soggy Brolly Gallery in Orr Street, and Galley Museum, Driffield Street.
The exhibition is generously supported by AusIMM Tasmania.
This is the third in the Hidden Treasures series, following on from highly successful events in Oatlands in 2025 and at Woolmers Estate, Longford, in January/February 2026.
In 1887, artist W.C. Piguenit joined a government survey party on a demanding trek from Lake St Clair to Macquarie Harbour. The wild rivers, rugged peaks and button grass plains they crossed inspired some of his most dramatic sketches and later studio paintings. Walk to the West features high-quality reproductions from this journey, shown alongside works by fellow nineteenth-century artists Simpkinson de Wesselow and John Skinner Prout.
The Royal Society of Tasmania acknowledges, with deep respect, the traditional owners of this land, and the ongoing custodianship of the Aboriginal people of Tasmania. The Society pays respect to Elders past, present and emerging. We acknowledge that Tasmanian Aboriginal Peoples have survived severe and unjust impacts resulting from invasion and dispossession of their Country. As an institution dedicated to the advancement of knowledge, the Royal Society of Tasmania recognises Aboriginal cultural knowledge and practices and seeks to respect and honour these traditions and the deep understanding they represent.
On 15 February 2021, the Royal Society of Tasmania offered a formal RST Apology to Tasmanian Aboriginal people 2021.