Natural history artist and teacher, accompanied the New South Wales colonial geologist, Samuel Stutchbury on a geological and mineralogical survey of the colony.
Photographer, works professionally as a photographer at the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery and also has an extensive private practice as an exhibiting artist-photographer.
In 1875, Miss E. D'Arcy, of Queensland showed a watercolour, 'Geraldine' enlarged from a photograph at the Metropolitan Intercolonial Exhibition in Sydney, NSW.