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

The Courier-Mail 5 October 1982 '. iJt The Go,emor-General, Sir Ninian Stephen, walks past :t:'d Sno~don pi~- ture In the Queensland Art Gallery yesterday. Sir Ninfan opens arts exhibition The arts Commonwealth and the sports Commonwealth were in a heppy union, the Governor-General, Sir Ninian Stephen, said last night when opening eight exhibitions at the Queensland Art Gallery. · He said it was impossi- monwealth Games would ble not to be impressed at be. the opening oarade of the Welcoming Sir Nini– -Brisbane Commonwealth an, the Queensland Art Games. Gallery president of trus• The teams competing tees, Mr Justice P.O. illustrated one character• Connolly, said he had to istic of the Com- confess that the doors to monwcalth today - it's the exhibition did not splendid diversity. open tonight, but a "few But the excitement of wccu ago." the competition of sport He said he thought Sir was matched by the visu- Ninian had "forgiven 111 al noa~mpetitive arts. for that." He aiid there wu no Sir Ninian caused con- better way of displaying troveny in August wbea the cultural skills of the he did not o~n the Bril– Commo11wealth "in all bane Exhibition oa the th~ir splendid ,ariety" traditional opeaina day: than tbo exhibition of He reportedly Nid lhlt CommoDwealtb art. wu became the &~bi- Tbe exhibitions, wbidl lion had been open al– he apened, inchtdc a ., ready a • -m~ ol day,. lcc1101 of coatamcs 1 maab aad ~luy or the CONIOll...itlt ud I JO ran ot 11tt COtll-; ............. le . ,, 7' llllnanallo~ •"'A....i•rt. ........«,,_ ... Ca • n~cn~ IIIVllff«;dlUI LVUGJ - ll 3 splendid diversity. But the excitement of the competition of sport was matched by the visu– al non-competitive arts. He said there was no better way of displa yi ng the cultural skills of the Commonwealth "in all their splendid variety" than the exhibition of Commonwealth art. The exhibitions, which he opened, include a sc- 1 cc tion or costumes, masks and jewellery of the Commonwealth and · 130 years of the Com– monwealth's photograph– ic history. There are also exhibi– tions of Aboriginal art, children's art from the Commonwealth, crafts, textiles and tapestries, and "Art in Sport," a col– lection of color and black and white sporting photo– graphs, arranged in asso– ciation with The Courier– Mail. Sir Ninian said dis– plays such as these showed what it meant to be people or the Com– monwealth. •· "The Commonwealth of the arts wears many faces, one or them is the face of youth," he said .. This was shown in these– lection or children's art on display. Sir Ninian said he hoped the tradition of the arts Commonwealth would be handed on to fu. ture generations just as. the tradition of the Com- LIIC '1:;AlllUlll\Jtl UIU IIUL open tonight, but a "few weeks ago.·• He said he thought Sir Ninian had "forgiven us for that. " Sir Ninian caused con– trove rsy in August when he did not open the Bris– ba nc Exhibition on the traditional opening day. He reportedly said this was because the Exhibi– tion had been open al– r~ady a numb~r of days. I ...