Queensland Art Gallery Annual Report 1991-92

PUBLIC PROGRAMS Visiting national exhibitions co-ordinated plinths constructed in their own travelling crates; Scott Whitaker and and installed included the photographic ten travelling crates to accommodate the Allyson Reynolds, two young Queensland artists Kundat Jaru Mob', portraying the remote new display cases; and one accessory crate. who were recipients of Western Australian Yaruman community, Extensive maintenance work on the the Melville Haysom and the annual 'Moët & Chandon Touring A r t demountable internal walls in the Gallery was also Memorial Art Exhibition (1992). undertaken. Scholarship. Assistance was provided for the five Gallery 14 Tutor Kate Ryan with installations - 'Resistance (Julie Brown-Rrap), EDUCATION participants in the 'Diario per una vita nuova' (Dennis del Favero), The program of presentations to enhance Gallery's school holiday 'Beyond the Everyday' (Elizabeth Gower), 'from visitors' enjoyment and understanding of the printmaking workshops. Paradise work' (Rosemary Laing) and Collection and temporary exhibitions continued 'oneWORLD' (lan Howard). to be consolidated and expanded. The refurbishment of modular walls used The range of free guided tours was expanded in galleries 4 and 14 was undertaken and the by offering a 'menu' of topics from which booking * modular shop display system was redesigned groups select tours and general visitors are and refurbished for use in association with offered tours on a rotational basis at advertised n;u- Tij 'Toulouse-Lautrec...' times. The Section continued its involvement with the Training for Volunteer Guides included practical appraisal of exhibition proposals and the studio activities lectures by artists staff and 4 documentation (such as indemnity and contracts) visiting experts including Claude Bouret, Curator accompanying exhibitions from the Bibliotheque Nationale Paris A visit I Workshop to the Sensitivity Unit attached to the Craigslea To better preserve and present works in the Pre School prompted an awareness of Collection and on loan for exhibitions, the experiences of the disabled in preparation for Workshop made several new frames. Collection involvement with the Disabilities Assistance works for which mouldings were machined for Program. Several Volunteer Guides unable to new frames to be gilded by the Framer are listed maintain full commitment to the program joined previously under the Framing report. Six other the recently- instigated category of Active small frames were moulded and approximately Reserve They provide assistance with major - 120 standard frames were made temporary exhibitions 1 / The set for the 'Toulouse-Lautrec...' exhibition Self guided tours and other information sheets f1 ' was the largest and most detailed of any continued to be developed. With the opening of10 constructed by the Workshop at the Gallery. the Gallery on the afternoon of Anzac Day, a Three Workshop staff were fully occupied special focus tour sheet, 'Art and War', supported for approximately nine weeks. Fittings, works on display from the Collection. Information fixtures, display stands and card racks were sheets also accompanied the display of a group of also produced for the Gallery's special 'Toulouse- recently conserved Netherlandish works; the first Lautrec...' shop. two pots acquired from Japan's Six Old Kilns; and The travelling exhibition 'Decorated Clay' the 'Artwork of the Month' series. Text from occupied three Workshop staff for approximately exhibition didactic panels was also made available eight weeks in completing thirty-two crates. This for sale as illustrated sheets. work involved thirty artworks packed into Interpretive support for the exhibition thirteen travelling crates; eight demountable 'Toulouse-Lautrec . . . ' included a resource kit, 43