Forgotten Tasmania - Beatties Studio

08/12/2024

Beattie's Studio 2024 wrap up -

I normally do a video, but a lot has happened with me and the Beattie’s Studio collection this year and this email will have to do for my end of year message.

27/07/2024

Cataloguing the collection -

I’ve come to the realisation that before I can even decide what to do with the collection, I need to know what I’ve got. It needs to be catalogued. That’s a big job. I have no idea how many items there are, but each one needs to be photographed, catalogued and entered into a database.

11/01/2024

John Watt Beattie is the subject of our most recent video. As custodians of his work, it was great to take the opportunity to delve into the man behind them.

John Watt Beattie was an important photographer in Tasmania in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.Read the full story at www.ForgottenTasmania.com/episod...

25/08/2023

New studio revealed -

It’s been nearly a year since I digitised any more Beattie’s photos because I lost my studio when we sold Mum’s house. Now, I have a new dedicated creative workspace and I’d like to show it to you. The video is a look behind the camera at how the sausage is made.

12/07/2023

Convict Days of Port Arthur -

His number 6 lecture was released in 1905. It became a book and now I’ve re-created the lecture experience as close as I can using Beattie’s original words and photos.

30/04/2023

Mural of Beattie’s photos (some)
Salamanca square walkway to underground car park.

25/04/2023

Studio pod getting closer. Space just needs levelling and filling.

23/12/2022

2022 Rewind -

First of all, you're getting this email because you're on the Beattie's Studio & Forgotten Tasmania mailing list. I use this mailing list as a way of communicating with people interested in Beattie's Studio and Tasmanian history. You control the list, unlike any other social network. I keep your ema...

15/09/2022

New look panorama photos from Beattie's Studio -

Spoiler Alert! The new video tells this story way better than I can do in an email. But basically, I've found a new way to present the panorama photos in the collection, and I hope you will appreciate it. The panorama photos are very wide - about 36" or just over a metre in modern measurements. They...

18/03/2022

What happened to Tasmania's trains?

18/03/2022

https://youtu.be/t-iI9dor_tA

06/03/2022

Bumped into some friends from uk.