Art-ducatioNAL tOURS
I specialise in making the historic interior, art and decor fun and an educational experience.
TOURS:
Martindale Hall: Marvel of the Mid-North
Tour: Sunday 10 September 2023 11am
Get to know the original Bowman and Mortlock families of Martindale through their lavish interiors! Take an expert Covid-safe guided tour with me, a qualified art historian.
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Carrick Hill: British-Australian Modernism
Join me, a qualified art historian and academic, for this tour of Carrick Hill's interiors and art collection.
By Dr Georgina Downey
Sunday 11 June 2023 at 10.30 am. Click link above to book.
Martindale Hall: Marvel of the Mid-North
Tour: Sunday 4 December 2022 11am
Get to know the original Bowman and Mortlock families of Martindale through their lavish interiors! Take an expert Covid-safe guided tour with me, a qualified art historian.
Carrick Hill: British Australian Modernism
Tour: Sunday 20 November 2022 at 10.30am.
Join me on this tour through Carrick Hill, where we will be focusing on the house interior as a reflection of the Haywards’ dual identities as both British and Australian, and how this shaped their remarkable art collection.
Martindale Hall: Marvel of the Mid-North
Tour: Sunday 18 September 2022 11am
Get to know the original Bowman and Mortlock families of Martindale through their lavish interiors! Take an expert Covid-safe guided tour with me, a qualified art historian.
Carrick Hill
Tour: Sunday 14 August 2022 at 10.30am.
Join me on this tour through Carrick Hill, where we will be focusing on the house interior as a reflection of the Haywards’ dual identities as both British and Australian, and how this shaped their remarkable art collection.
Martindale Hall: Marvel of the Mid-North
Tour: Sunday 12 June 2022 11am
Get to know the original Bowman and Mortlock families of Martindale through their lavish interiors! Take an expert Covid-safe guided tour with me, a qualified art historian.
Carrick Hill
Tour: Sunday 24 April 2022 at 10.30am.
Join me on this tour through Carrick Hill, where we will be focusing on the house interior as a reflection of the Haywards’ dual identities as both British and Australian, and how this shaped their remarkable art collection.
Martindale Hall: Marvel of the Mid-North
Tour: Sunday 13 March 2022 11am
Get to know the original Bowman and Mortlock families of Martindale through their lavish interiors! Take an expert Covid-safe guided tour with me, a qualified art historian.
Vintage Valentines Tour Carrick Hill
Tour: Sunday 13 Feb 2022 at 10.30am.
Join me on this tour through Carrick Hill, where we will be focusing on the house interior as a reflection of the Haywards’ dual identities as both British and Australian, and how this shaped their remarkable art collection.
Carrick Hill
Tour: Sunday 5 December 2021 at 10.30am.
Join me on this tour through Carrick Hill, where we will be focusing on the house interior as a reflection of the Haywards’ dual identities as both British and Australian, and how this shaped their remarkable art collection.
Martindale Hall: Marvel of the Mid-North
Tour: Sunday 24 October 2021 11am
Get to know the original Bowman and Mortlock families of Martindale through their lavish interiors! Take an expert Covid-safe guided tour with me, a qualified art historian.
Designed for Health? Nunyara Open Air TB Sanatorium Belair
Tour: Friday 1st October 2021
Come explore beautiful early 20thC 'pandemic proof' therapeutic building in the Adelaide Hills.
Carrick Hill
Tour: Sunday 20 June at 10.30am.
Celebrate the reopening of the house and join me on this tour through Carrick Hill, where we will be focusing on the house interior as a reflection of the Haywards’ dual identities as both British and Australian, and how this shaped their remarkable art collection.
Martindale Hall: Marvel of the Mid-North
Tour: Sunday 13 June 2021
Discover Martindale! Book now and take an expert guided tour with me, an art and architecture historian.
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The Owner and the Art Historian: A Joint Tour of Interiors at Anlaby
Sunday 23 May 2021
Vintage Valentines at Carrick Hill
Sunday 14 February at 11am.
Celebrate the reopening of the house and join me on this tour through Carrick Hill, where we will be focusing on the house interior as a reflection of the Haywards’ dual identities as both British and Australian, and how this shaped their remarkable art collection. AND!
We're going to invite you to don a vintage clothing item/s from any decade from the 1940s to the 1970s; with a surprise gift at the end for the best-dressed!
Martindale Hall: Marvel of the Mid-North
Tour: Sunday 6 December 2020
Discover Martindale! Book now and take an expert guided tour with me, an art and architecture historian.
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Martindale Hall: Marvel of the Mid-North
Tour: Sunday 9 August 2020
Discover Martindale! Book now and take an expert guided tour with me, an art and architecture historian. Winter Saver $15.00 off.
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Martindale Hall: Marvel of the Mid-North
Tour: Sunday 22 March 2020
Discover Martindale! Book now and take an expert guided tour with me, an art and architecture historian. 'Mad March' Save $15.00
Martindale Hall: Marvel of the Mid-North
Tour: Sunday 24 November 2019
Book now to take a tour with me, an art and architecture historian specialising in domestic interiors, and discover Martindale.
Nunyara, Belair
Gone with the Wind?: Tour of the Open Air TB Sanatorium at 'Nunyara' Belair
Tour: Friday 4 October 2019
Government House SA
Tour One: Sunday 7 October 2018.
Power, Privilege and Chintz: A peek behind closed doors
SOLD OUT - Please come along to my NEXT TOUR OF GOVERNMENT HOUSE late APRIL 2019 FOR SA’s ‘HISTORY WEEK’.
Gallery Six Art Gallery of South Australia
Tour Two: Sunday November 18 2019.
“Making Australian Interiors Modern; Gallery Six of the Art Gallery of South Australia’
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Tour Three: Sunday January 20th 2019.
'Carrick Hill: British-Australian Modernism; or how the Haywards blended Old and New.’
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Tour Four: Sunday 28th April 2019 10.30-11.30am
SA History Festival 2019
The academic
The mind of the academic is ever enquiring. Here, I document my visual arts academic career and accomplishments. I lead you to my published works and invite you to collaborate with me.
My career highlights:
published books
Doctor of Philosophy (Phd) - art history
Visiting research fellow - University of Adelaide
student mentoring
Exhibitions
Home Alone: Solitary Pleasures looks at contemporary social and cultural meanings of home. It features emerging artists that diverge from the common vocabulary of 'homescape' and offers darker, funnier and poignant critiques of the spaces that exist in Australia this century.
Join us among the teabags, tufty wool and felt. And share this unsettling and alternate image of domestic interiors.
Walkley House Tour for History Festival 2019
Come with me on a guided tour through Walkley House, North Adelaide. Designed by architect Robin Boyd in 1956, this house is a stunning example of Australian 'International’ modernism and is rarely accessible to the public.
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Tour Five : Sunday 26 May 2019 10.15-11.45am
Power and privilege: a peek through Government House
Stroll back in time through the State's most symbolic house, and learn about its art, decor, and history on this relaxed and informative two-hour tour on its biannual Open Day.
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Carrick Hill: British-Australian Modernism;
or how the Haywards blended Old and New
Sunday 23 June at 10.15 and 12.00
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