A publication of 465 pages including a detailed index, illustrations, photographs and maps. non-fictionThe Fellowship of First Fleeters has attempted to locate and document the known resting place of every man, woman and child who arrived in Australia on the First Fleet in 1788. Where possible, when graves were identified, a commemorative ceremony was carried out and a plaque recognising the grave as that of a First Fleeter was attached. In 1990 the current findings were published in “Where the First Fleeters Lie”. Since then the Fellowship has conducted some 40 additional ceremonies. Dispatched Downunder brings the record up to date. Photographs from the original publication were added, all of the maps have been redrawn and grave locations closely specified; additional biographical material has been added; gravestone shapes have been recorded; an Index has been provided; and the material has been reorganised as to chronology and locations. Of the 1,373 arrivals, the Fellowship has documented and recorded the resting place of 702 persons including 102 who have been immortalised with their own Fellowship of the First Fleeters plaque.first fleet, convicts australia, first fleeters biographies

Ian Parry (born 1947) is a Melbourne-born artist living in Tasmania, active since 1974 and collected by National and State Collections. He was winner of the 1990 ACTA Maritime art Prize. He also took part in 2006, to the ANL Art Prize organised each year at the Mission since 2003. In his biography on his website: Ian Parry was born into a family of seafaring descent. His extensive career as a respected practising artist and teacher, has uniquely included a fishing fleet apprenticeship and years as a single handed fisherman in Bass Strait. "In the early 70's when I first showed at the renowned Powell St gallery in Melbourne, the paintings were large, abstract, with allusion to the experience of the world of water, sky and land. My visual world has always been permeated with the wet parts of this place and continues to be so to this day. Maritime and geological charts and the daily necessity of plotting a course, appear in paintings where necessary, as a means of getting a schematic representation of the subject into play, trying to free the work from the tyranny of the horizon line but frequently returning. Now-a-days I am returning to abstraction, making paintings that allow me free rein with colour and composition, aiming for a sense of permanence and independence in each work." Maritime ArtLarge moulded gilt wood frame, non glazed painting of shipping, oil on canvasSignature and date bottom right corner: "Parry 89"p & o nedloyd, shipping, melbourne ports, docklands, wharfside, wharves, ian parry, maritime art, acta maritime art prize, artwork-paintings