AUGUSTE  BLACKMAN

                                    presents

                          JOHN  McDOUALL  STUART

                                AN  UNSUNG  HERO

                                  July 20th - Aug 12th

Artist, Auguste Blackman has always been an admirer of the intrepid and tenacious explorer John McDouall Stuart described as Australia's greatest inland explorer.

Historian Earnest Favenc wrote "Stuarts victory was all his own; he had followed in other persons footsteps,he had crossed the true centre, and he had made the coast at a point much further north than his rivals"

John McDouall Stuart and his companions completed the first crossing of Australia from Adeliade to Van Diemens Gulf in 1882. This year we celebrate the 150th anniversary of this remarkable achievement.