Queensland Art Gallery Presscuttings Book 10 : Record of press coverage, March 1982 - May 1984

,' The Courier-Mail Wednesday 30 June 1982 Fit for a king. Part of• Nlge;/an king'• outt/1 embroidered •Ith more than one and• hall million be•d• le dl1pt•1•d b1 Jumoke Deba10. Di~s .wedding . .. , gown on show ; The PrlncH1 of Wal••' wedding gown WIii be.the focal point i of a1pectIculIr International exhibition planned for Bri1b1n• 11 part otthe FHtival '82 celebratlon1. · The princess' gown ·.wedding to P 0 tln~e · excite everybody"· dis: and accessories for her , Charles in St Paul's Ca-· played in the area the 1.thedral last year will ·be .. gallery has set aside for I . on display at the Queens- the exhibition. land Art Gallery for 10 Austra.lian gemstones ; weeks from September and Aboriginal artefacts 1 20 to December 5. will contrast with color- Festivlll '82 executive ful carnival costumes · director, Mr Norman· from Trinidad, opera Llewelyn, said. the exhibi- singers' dainty outfits •tion also would comprise from Hong Kong and a costumes, masks and .frightening Sri 1..Jankan jewellery from every ·death mask. country and dependency Miss Dcbayo said she in the Commonwealth. had been prompted by a Peraonallty ~f:!~:); ;r~~t!~! i~r;~~ He said the !'priceless" Commonwealth", exhibition had been co– ord ina t_ed in the past eight months by London Unpac~ing media personality and. Already. aboui 80 pcr– arts' enthusiast, Jumoke cent of the display has ar- Debayo. · rived in Brisbane for un- 1 "It is her brainchild packing and Miss De- 1 and no one else in tlie bayo will return from world could have brought London with the remain– it to such spectacular fru- der in August. ition." Nigerian-born, Miss Mr .Llewelyn said ad- Debayo was educated in mission to the exhibition England and is well would be free and it known there and in Afri– would be seen only in ea for her work in fill'(ls, Brisbane. · , plays, radio, television Miss Debayo, who was 'and newspapers, usiatant-"director of-fet• She compered the tividea at tbe Edmonton •Duke ol Edinburglr Sil– Game•f said ltem,··had ver Jubilee Ball in Lon- been borrowed from gov• don.and •acted as a con– ernment1, gallerlea and aullant for FESTAC - :-;rlnto collector,, · the Second World Black · ·She prOl1\iHd there and African Festival of · ~861d llc!.: ~t.bl ~J to , A_rta aacl CIIJ(ure. . , \ ,