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The Gallery will be open until 9pm this Friday, Saturday and Sunday.
Elegance in exile is an exhibition surveying the work of Richard Read senior, Thomas Bock, Thomas Griffiths Wainewright and Charles Rodius: four artists who, though exiled to Australia as convicts, created many of the most significant and elegant portraits of the colonial period.
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![Truggernana [Trukanini], a native of southern part of V.D. Land](/files/1/8/5/e/i8535-th.jpg "Truggernana [Trukanini], a native of southern part of V.D. Land")
![Woureddy [Wurati], a wild native of Brune Island](/files/8/9/0/b/i8536-th.jpg "Woureddy [Wurati], a wild native of Brune Island")
Joanna Gilmour explores the life of a colonial portrait artist, writer and rogue Thomas Griffiths Wainewright.
Malcolm Robertson tells the family history of one of Australia's earliest patrons of the arts, his Scottish born great great great grandfather, William Robertson.
Joanna Gilmour describes how colonial portraitists found the perfect market among social status seeking Sydneysiders.
