Queensland Art Gallery Annual report 1999-2000

Prog rams o- Assis--ance SCHOLARSHIPS FOR YOUNG ARTISTS The Hobday and Hingston Bursary The Gallery continued its program of supporting young This bursary is awarded annually by the Gallery to the developing artists by awarding annual scholarships and most promising undergraduate from a Queensland bursaries. tertiary art course. The bursary was instigated by Florence Emily Hobday in memory of her husband, the Trustees Creative Art Scholarships for Children artist Percy Stanhope Hobday, and of her brother, Arthur Trustees Creative Art Scholarships for Children were James Hingston. For this bursary, tertiary institutions are awarded to 24 primary school students aged 8-12 years. asked to nominate their most outstanding student, with Within the Scholarship Program, which has been in the recipient receiving $1000 towards their continued existence since 1941, the students attended four two-day development as an artist. workshops held throughout the year in the Gallery In 1999, the bursary was awarded to Deanne Studio. The Gallery supplied all art materials and tutors, Brogan, a graduating student from the Diploma of Visual and the workshops were conducted to take full Arts course at Southbank Institute of TAFE, Brisbane. advantage of the exhibitions on display. In 2000, Deanne is the first TAFE student to receive the Bursary significant changes were made to the scheduling and formatting of the Scholarship Program to allow greater YOUTH TRAINING participation of students living outside Brisbane. The Gallery participates in youth training and mentoring Application forms are distributed to all regional and in various ways, as part of its commitment to the metropolitan schools in Queensland. training of young arts professionals. During the year, the Gallery acted as a host for secondary and tertiary The Melville Haysom Memorial Art Scholarship students undertaking work experience in museum, This scholarship is designed to assist art students or curatorial, and conservation studies; provided young artists, 25 years or younger, by providing Studio traineeship and volunteer opportunities for young space at the Gallery, access to the Gallery's resources people seeking careers in art museums; and participated and expertise, and financial assistance for a period of in a critical writing mentoring scheme. three months. The winner of the 1999 Melville Haysom Memorial Traineeships and Apprenticeships Art Scholarship was Jemima Wyman, a graduate of the The Gallery's Multimedia and Audiovisual Trainee Queensland University of Technology. During her commenced a twelve-month training program in June scholarship, Jemima created a collection of colourful 1999 to produce documentary videos for exhibition and eclectic art works that will be exhibited within an display and for inclusion on the Gallery's website. He exhibition at Palace Gallery, South Brisbane in produced documentary videos on artists who were September 2000. represented in the Asia-Pacific Triennial, the The scholarship is funded by a grant from Mrs Queensland artist Betty Quelhurst, and the German Yvonne Haysom in memory of her husband, Melville avant-garde artist Erich Buchholz. These were all Haysom, who died on 25 December 1967. Melville produced to accompany exhibitions. Haysom was a recipient of The Godfrey Rivers Bequest In March 2000, the Cadet Trainee Curator Award, a member of the Victorian Art Society and the (Indigenous Australian Art) completed his two-year Fellowship of Australian Artists, and a Life Member of cadetship at the Gallery This cadetship combined the Royal Queensland Art Society professional curatorial experience in the Indigenous