Queensland Art Gallery Presscuttings Book 1 : Presscuttings, 1959-1962

`71117:Pl'4 70'17'74'7 r°74,P557417.177`.17:N 'I. Want art in all phas KEITH and Margaret McNeil are a husband and wife art team who believe that art should enter into every phase of living. Its probably this that lit,111eellitotilislelisi,own l7fleleatnds. makes them an keen on 113'leet wide, and is double - teaching children art storied at. one end. Mr. Mc - through the creative allneili l sonicollile the woodwork method. done. but the rest Is all his Soft-voiced little Mrs. awn work McNeil, who pioneered ex- No frilly bits perimental classes for crea- tive art in Tasmania, will MR. and Mrs. McNeil are tell you: "We try to get the both interested in in - children to express their own dustrial art and they firmly feelings and their own ideas believe in the "beautiful and -instead of imposing the functional-pure form with- teacher's ideas on them." out any frilly bits." Help them see s. with oil aints. but she does Mr MpcNeil works mostly AND her tall, grey-hairedI showing the some pastel andtaonidl wash. husband will chime in work of the children attend - with: "They never COPY- tag Mrs. MeNell's Saturday you Just help them to see." morning creative art classes Mrs. McNeil explained: at. the National Gallery will "With children you are not be -150Fitert- to=morrow at4 p.m. at the Gallery by the Director -General of Educa- viduals. Some may develop Lion iMr. H. G. Welkin). Into artists, others may v be Work by some of Mrs. Mc - architects Neips pupils was recently or designers.' 'y lsed be the national Mr. and Mrs. McNeil havestation.:in Sydney' sod the been married for 20 years. film will he sent to England. They are Tasmanians who met as art students at the Hobart Technical College. They were married in Syd- ney, and have spent all their married life in Brisbane. necessarily teaching them to be artists, but rather to be- come more 'rounded' Ina. Watercolours MR. McNeil paints in watercolours and did the murals at the Boulevarde Motel. His great mterest lies In the graphic arts, typ- IN THE STUDIO of their home at el Terrace, Indooroopilly, Mr. and ography, and design as ap- Mrs. Keith McNeil work on their paintings and discuss their ideas on art. They plied to printing. He says with a grin that designed their ;some, and Mr. McNeil did most of the building himself. Now he he is also "pretty keen on hopes to hase more time for his watercolours. Both he and Mrs, McNeil are domestic architecture" which interested in teaching art to children in order to develop their personalities. explains why he made time to build his Indooroopilly Art display by children An exhibition of chil- dren's creative art will he on view at the Queensland National Art Gallery until De- cember 1. This exhibition show the work of the children attending the Saturday morning creative art classes at the galleries under the direction of Mrs. M. McNeil. It is perhaps in child art that we find the purest form of self ex- pression. There are no inhibi- tions or following of schools of thought or copying, but the forth- right setting down of un- influenced reaction. In this show every con- ceivable subject has been exploited with enviable enthusiasm.- MELVILLE HAYSOM. Surprising AN exhibition of children's thing not. to he missed, youngsters ranging from 8 to are trills' miirprising. Among the tumid, tit the work 111),MIr lily- hit1111. ut St With MP Bird'. ut .1 Im - - Of there boys K111;1 way. Franris he11111... and Iirrharrl SrS111,111. tNpl.t. - ':ill of WIlildrr lu Ili q Saint's lace Is enehatitmk. Then there i V. Rotel !son 's IIIarnall Wyly pill llcl Christ figure. a lovely pointing horse In fl mural by three girls, an- other charmingly painted horse by John Lee. In the Printroom one won- ders at Roes Sallaway's Itfe- work by children creative all Al the National Gallcl v is really some. - One is reltietent to single out works of those 14. as they all have something, hut certain efforts Modelled 'nisi olt Lord Ncl-ott and Ihr same hot, refined timid iiiit of a head. hranrls Bennie did a figure I. posed in triangu- lar planes, quite nn experi- ment for one so young. Helen Bletchle painted a (Damao(' "Kura." Robin Re- fAllmck flu expresmve head and charming flower piece: Bernard Scanlon an amazing -Scaled k'imire," little Russel a landscape with figures with unusual feeling for volumes in a child aged The youtiscr glom) did it Ii 11Zf' "Circus." full of fun 'There line also iha rtntng masks. linoctits, and varying s in balsa wood. Congratulations to the children and to their fine leacher, Mrs. Margaret Me - Nell. The exhibition will he °Owl - ally mulled be the Director - General of Erfficatinn tMr H G. Makin), at 4 p.m. to -day. Mrs. E. E. Ovens with her painting of Cape Leeuwin, Western Australia, oneT of 37 which are at present being displayed at the exhibition of art by women mem- bers of the Royal Queensland Art Society. The exhibition con- sists of paintings. weaving and sculpture rreated by Brisbane women, and is being held at 419 Upper Ed- ward Street. Brisbane. It will remain open until 4 p.m. today, This is the first lime any of the paintings hart' hreh exhibited. All the exhibits are for Sil' and proceeds will go towards equip- ping a new sketching and painting class which Is to be estab- lished next year for women. On Friday at 4 p.m. the Oireetor-General of Education tMr. II. G. %Violin]) will open an exhibition of child- ren's creative art at the Queensland Nat- ional Art Gallery. This exhibition will show the work of the children attending the Saturday morning Creative Art (lasses at the National Gallery tinder the direction of Miss M. McNeil. This exhibition will remain open until De- cember I.