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

Tclegruph, Wednesday, Marck 4, 1959 5 tOft Art Review by Dr Gertrude Langer Creative works in Centenary contest ENTRIES in the Queensland Centenar3 Eisteddfod Art Competition now on display at the National Gallery fall into two groups: 1. Works that are creative and - 2. Works that are more then leas aiming at imitation of outward appearance. The first group, quite largely represented, stimulates in- terest. The winning entries are realists., yet go far beyond the superticially factual. Betty Cameron's "Dr. Going." broad and simple in conception. is a fearless and unflattering study, yet the painter's human warmth shines through. as It does also in her unfinished portrait of Robert Names. However, as a !Minton!. Jun 5liiivig's -Russell Cuppaidge" is quite out -holding. atchiteeture of this picture. building tip front beautifully painted hands. the elusive subtle and personal enlist!. which itunveys everything - form. spare. HMI mood. the uncompromising scrutiny into things deeper than the skin- all this makes this work memorably. Loving care ()Him. interesting Bart trait paintings are C. Munro 's -John Rigby." Marykr Degefis' Mnlitc." and Ft, Yentes' Groom," differing approaches in the landscape section must have set problems to the Judges A. E. Read's winning "North of Capricorn" is painted with loving rare for (let all and ex- ecution. Striking a happy balance between the real and a sort of fairy tale mood. 1/1111111111i has a Rood deal of chitin. Primitive style Aimonu ()I iler 1/MI11111V of note ,1 t. Peter Freeman's "Bin ans al Gardens.' with hint; of the in timer of Stud, Maximilian -Woollitlira. Roy Chu!, het'. "Licht :atm the o Ill in Ihr City- u,h It- itialit tole, of rolollr, Henri Bast in'. "Gust fnIr,utne primate style. Nall Ilvt man', -Barrier Itrrt" n mew Ilrl:,t tier HITI11,11i .11111 (le Cil ,1 's "N41,1 Pt.!) Bn e." %WM- stet s "13nwin Landscape," lain Right's "Samford Val- le," nnei Lilian Clunthorrie's "Cut iumbin " The exhihttlon will remain open until March 31. pain ng of v (I u e it nsla II d Deputy l'rernier. Mr. K. J. Morris. 10 Brisbane arils t. Winifred Robbins. which is one of the entries in the 15110 Centenary Art I...M- utation. Results are expected to be an- nounced tomorrow night. The exhibi- tion. in the Queens- land National Art Gallery will be warn to the public to- morrow. Schoolgirl's canvas wins centenary art honour HE paint on the canvas was still wet when young Gay Forrest submitted her entry for the Queensland Centenary Eisteddfod Art competition. .who lives next door to tin She lett the portrait in oils art .school" 11. the Queensland NationalGov is n sub-.lnninr Art Gallery-and then \vent at Somerville House. but she home and laughed at he tellis nil tidying art as One for entering the competition of her Junior subteets. She at all. rinse Latin instead. Now Gay-IS years old last tsiie would like to make December-is glad she did career of painting . "but not. have second thoughts first I'd like to travel over - about her entry. .seas" Her competition portrait of Brisbane stockbroker. ill r. Gag's Portrait and the Lance A. Jones-is among, 01h.n.` in the nollrait RIP the honoured 22 portraitsIn"'"0" sections selected by the Judges to PnAneturn a "in, in the gallery, to the o on( at theArt nn des6n'il! lery whit March 31 front Critics' raise 10 a.m. to 5 pm. on Week. p clays and 9 pin to 5 p.m Gay's entry did not win an on SimOnVs award tthe £300 first. prize went to Miss Betty Cameron for her portrait of Dr. J. V. DuhiR,, but (Titles said it promise and was a considerable achievement for an artist so comparatively (My painted the portrait at SIN ronsectinve Saturday ,fternontis between 2.30 and Her mother works fnr MI Jones. Gay began studying art 5erinftsiy when she was In. Last year she entered her first, contest-The Sunday Mail Child Art Competition -and shared Brat prize with' a portrait. of "a little boy DIELI 11.1.1.: IIAISCIM A selection cf portrait and landscape paintings from the entries submitted for the Queensland Centenary Eisteddfod Art Competition is at the Queensland National Art Gallery, Gregory Terrace. _. cuuragits. and should The esli.bition is ell- In: in its outlined Plan', Ltd . f, Tattier overpowei prove stimulatin,f to . iill lr Pa San of the portraits t:l'aTjtioepitie wl'zilen.21.3)eBrettyof Cam-! te themselves over to the suggest that the paint - era have entirely given ',Ion. a young Brisbane roil of the ugly. Arthur Evan Read. win- cairitairsatc, tlelraissteictispturoefd ..tgorous manner the 11 a r.scape. has crystallised a nor of the prize for land - sitter. Dr. J. V. Ming. 'Queensland town in his John Dalton shows a 'North of Capricorn Brisbane Architect in a The Judges fared a two-way semi -abstract hard talk in this see - fashion, and Maryke Ron, the over-all quid- Diveus has preserved a 10' being higher than likeness in Jon Molvig, that found in (hr our- Esq. Girl's work traits. titer Abraham'', Winter Landscape is welt promising painted but lacks a little fe,lin. Curcher P°11."st. "gect 15.'ihancllegs wellRoy his dramatic shows promise with Lance Light after the Storm in A Jones. Esq. member of the city. lirisbnme Stock Exchange. - thdrew Sibley's Mr. A. Spooner, F.A.S.A. F.C.I.S.. Manager Tully do-opera- tive Sugar Milling Assoc. .4t THE .%R'l'IS'l', Gay Forrest, 15, of Hawthorne, who entered the 1500 Queensland Centenary Art competition, and had her entry hung at the lip Brigham. Art Ciallerv. ...WITH THIS PORTRAIT THE PORTRAIT, of Mr. Lance Jones, a member of Brisbane Stock Exchange. photographed in the Art Gallery.