Macquarie Perceptions: Tim Miller

Sep 01, 2015, 12:53 PM

A contemporary artistic response to Lachlan Macquarie's term as governor of NSW, and the crossing of the Blue Mountains.

Artist Tim Miller became fascinated with the expansion of settlement west of Sydney during Macquarie's tenure. What would have been seen by the first European explorers and how their arrival might have been perceived by the local Indigenous peoples?

Source: ABC Radio National 'Earshot'