in 1888 the English first fleet of convicts and soldiers arrived in Sydney Harbour.
Other fleets were to follow and eventually free settlers and the colony of New South Wales grew.
Before the English, many tribes of the Eora aboriginal nations used the country for shelter and food. Gradually they were displaced and the settlers land grab meant that the first nations people’s way of life would change and be lost.
My oil painting Imagining before Arthur Phillip represents the southern shore of Sydney Harbour, from Garden Island along to Goat Island.it is the land where the Cities Central Business centre is today,
Graden Island known as Ba-ing-hoe
Wooloomooloo known as Wooloomooloo
Mrs Macquaries Point, know as Yurong
Farm Cove known as Woggan-ma-gule
Bennelong point , known as Jubùghallee
Sydney Cove, known as War-ran
Dawes point, known as Tar-ra
Darling Harbour, known as Tumbulong
Goat Island, known as Me-mil
