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

"COURIER MAIL" Brisbane, ald. "TELEGRAPH" Brisbane, QId. "COURIER MAIL" Brisbane, 611d. BRISBANE SCULPTOR * YES'YEBDAY'S picture of prier-winning Brisbane sculptor. Leonard Millen,. HIS DESIGN WON £200 SYMBOLIC figures reach. lag towards the sun - and enlightenment-are featured In this design by Leonard Shitla, for use on the exterior of extensions to the Public Library in William Street. The design won £200. First prize of ART SHOWING An exhibition of Brit- I ish graphic arts will be I thoun at the Queensland National Art Gallery from August 25 to Sep- tember 22. The exhibi- tion has been postponed from July 14-August 11. "COURIER MAIL" Brisbane, Qld. 1 SP 195 FOR SERVICE TO ART -HIS OWN PORTRAIT in A STAFF REPORT ER HOW to say thank.you artistically was the lesson of a ceremony at the Natiqnal Art Gallery yesterday. The matt being thanked was 79 -year-old Mr. Maurice Herring. He has been trustee and honorary treasurer of the gallery for nearly 30 years. Mr. Herring thanked them all, but-still the crusader for better art facilities. - added: "We have reached a stage where it is going to be im- possible to carry on unless Mr. Pizzey and his Govern - Mr. Herring's eight fellow ment give us pretty consider - trustees wanted to show that they appreciated his record able financial help. term of public service to art in Queensland. So they commissioned his likeness in oils from Vic- torian artist A. D. Colqu- houn. Goes on show From this morning Mr. Herring's portrait-361n. by 30in., will form a permanent part of the gallery for which he has done so much. Yesterday afternoon the trustees, headed by Mr. Edgar Ferguson, offered their reward in style: They entertained Mr, Her- ring, last survivor of thy board of trustees formed in 1030, and his wife, to afternoon tea and pleasant conversation. Then they asked the Educa- tion Minister (Mr. Pizzey) to unveil the painting, showing Mr. Herring in thoughtful mood with one of his favourite pies, the Centenary BRISBANE sculptor Leonard Shillam yes- terday won the £200 prize for the hest sculpture design for use on the exterior of 1959 Centenary Year extensions to the Pub- lic Library in William Street. With Victorian artist 'tress tress wife, Kathleen. live in Lindsey Edward, who won Holmes Street, Brighton. the £500 prize for the best Mr. Shillam. who described wall decoration design, they the prize as a hallmark in became the first winners of Centenary Year competi- tions. his career, said yesterday that erection of his sculp- ture probably would cost up to £700. A former poultry farmer, To be cast In aluminium, Mr. Shillam and his sculp-,the sculpture shows that symbolic figures reaching to- wards the rays of the sun. 20ft. High It. will be about 20ft. high on the river side of the Pub- lic Library extension exter- nal wall, and is meant to represent the dissemination of enlightenment to man- kind. The winning 68ft. by 14Ift. mural to decorate the curved William Street side or the Library extension is de- scribed as "not a literal sub- ject, but one suggesting basic primitive organic forms, ageless, belonging to no par- ticular age, indicative of growth and development.." It will be erected as a glass mosaic. Judges said it had the virtue of permanence, add- ing that they did not expect any public reaction against its unrepresentationnl style. 52 Entries There were 31 entries In the wall decoration section (Queensland M. New South Wales 2, Victoria II, rind Tasmania 21. and 21 in the sculpture section (Queens- land fi. New South Wales I Victoria P. Tasmnnia I. and England I i. The panel of judges for both sections was the Dean of Architecture at Queens. land University (Professor n. P. Cummings). Director of the Queensland National A Collcry Robert From MP 1158 195i, Garden lecture DR. Karl Langer will give an illustrated lec-, ture on landscape gardening, to members of the Queens-, land National Art Gallery Society at the Gallery to- night at 8 p.m. "COURIER MAIL" Brisbane, Gild. c itii 'Aft 'Winston show CANBERRA.-The exhibi- tion of Sir Winston Churchill's painting now touring Norili America Queens and on show at the Queensla National Gallery in Brisbabe fromBelitTmber ICI to September 21, the Prime Minister (Mr. Men - vie. announced last night. "TELEGRAPH" Brisbane, QId. Cairns, QId. SIR WINSTON'S PAINTINGS AUSTRALIAN EXHIBITIOtf CANBERRA, July 15.-Paint- Ines by Sir Winston Churchill will be shown in Canberra and all State capitals. The Prime Minister :Mr. R. G. Menzies> said to -day he had completed arrangements with Sir Winston to exhibit the paintings which were now touring the United totes and Canada. The exhibition in the Brisbane etional Gallery would be from epternber 21 to October 12. "COUNTRY LIFE." CHURCHILL. ART IN SEPTEMBER x- CA hitton of SiX Winston 'Churchill's paintings.. _now, in North Atneria, will hi on show the Ql1011:S. land tonaltit, Gallery m 1 BrisbR Sptember '10 to [September 21. The Prime Mininced ster, ,Mr. MelizieS. annou Goth night that he had c mpetd arrangements with Sir Winston for the \exhibition to tour Aus- tralia. The exhibition WOuld the shown first in Can- tierrit trom August a August 11. WORLD TRAVELLERS FIND AUSTRALIA STIMULATING IN Brisbane this week on their first visit to Queensland and impressed by everything they have seen are Mr. and Mrs. Ian Bell of Canberra. Mr. Bell Is Counsellor and Official Secretary to the High Commissioner for Great Britain, resid- ent in Canberra, Lord Carrington. Mrs. Bell is a graduate of Oxford University. They have been in Australia for a year. Mrs. Bell has tremendous admiration for Australian women. "They are smart. energetic, and combine home so cleverly with a career," she said. She paid tribute to the men whom she said were an enormous help to their wives. It was refreshing to hear Mrs. Bell's high praise of Queensland's capital. "I think Brisbane is one of the most attractive capital cities in Australia." said Mrs. Bell, who, with her husband, saw as much as possible of Brisbane during their short stay. On Mrs. Bell's itinerary was Newstead, the Queens- land University, and with her husband the National Art. Gallery. Mr. Bell. himself a painter, had heard glowing reports of the work being done by the Director of the Gallery, Mr. Robert Reines. MRS. IAN BELL Mr. and Mrs. Bell can be said to be citizens of the world. They have lived in South America, Ethiopia, Czechoslovakia, Saudi Arabia (they were turned nut after the Suez (Tito, and London. Australia was a rare acid unexperh,d posting, in the Foreign Office, and they were findlInt It stimulating and Asked of educational progress In Saudi Arabia, Mrs. Bell said it was a primitive country nnd education for the masses was a slow process. Those who were educated, im- mediately sought white collar Jobs and it was difficult to place them. Of Czechoslovakia, Mrs. Bell said the everyone lived in fear of the secret police. Women had equality with men, but shared their hazards even to manual labour. "Equality of women is not always what is ex- pected." said Mrs. Bell. One of Mrs. Bell's en- gagements while in Bris- bane was with University Women graduates at the home of president of the Graduates Association, Mrs. J. F. Kenys. She spoke of "Life be- hind the Iron Curtain." Before leaving Queens- land on Sunday, Mr. and Mrs. Bell visited Too- woomba and Charleville for a glimpse of country life. They will return to Queensland by caravar In August or September fcr holiday at Noosa accom- panied by their three sons the oldest on vacation from school in England. The two younger sons tv- tend the Grammar School nl Conherr