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

,r Our gallery in color ; ; "Queensland Art Gallery" is a book recording the growth and gene– sis of the Queensland Art Gallery in 64 pages of words and full-color pho– tographs. · The book devotes 38 pages to bcauti• ful color photographs or the gallery's col– lection covering three categories - Brit– ish and European, Australian and Quecniland. It contains sections on the gallery's genesis, its design and designer, Mr Ro– bin Gibson, as well as a section on the galler director, Mr Raoul Mellish. Information about the gallery's facili– ties and services and technical informa– tion on the gallery's site and itsconstnla. tion arc in the book. "Queensland Art Gallery" is pub– lished by The Courier-Mail in full color on glossy paper and is available at S4 from the Queensland Art Gallery Book shop, Newspaper House , 93 Quee Street, and Queensland Newspape · Campbell Street, Bowen Hills. Mail orders should be sent to Queen land Art Gallery Book, The Courier Mail, GPO Box 937, Briabane, and should include 11 for post and pad:' in . · I j The Toowoomba Chronicle 20 October 1982 ROBERT Kettson and Mike West discuss one of Mike's draw– ings at the opening of his art exhibition ot thJJ DDIAE last . · · week. West exhibits his collection· Last week in Toowoomba the first one-man Australian an ex– hibition or work by Mike West, l~turer in drawing, was OP,Clled by his friend, Robert Kettson, l~turer in .:ting, in the foyer or the Arts Building, DDIAE. Here we sec about 30 drawings, photographs and paintings whkh arc ,:olle,:tively, described as "Mental Photopaphs" . Large pell\,il drawings au.:h as "Wombat and Other Animab" and "Sirens" ·mow surreal dream-like imagery. A gouaclle nude, "Girl with a Mir– ror'', ii expressionistic in .:on,:ept. · Apparent spontaneity of paint ·appll.:ation Is in .:ontrut with deliberation and intri.:ate ·deWI seen in pendl work of the im– : aginative aroup of drawings. Photographs are mostly of nudes where the artist endeavours , to portray a sense of .:ommunion and affinity between youthful female forms and the Australian bush. Strong eroti,: overtones per– vade this exhibition as well u a degree of wry humour evident in · the surreal drawings. Toowoomba visit.on to Brisbane are reminded that some of the ex– hibitions for Festival 82 continue at the Queeruland Cultural Centre. Diversity and quality of work displayed there is su.:h that .:oir- 1lderable time is ne.:asary to mimilate mentally all itema seen. ., Kites, .:hildren1' art, photography, and .:ostumcs are still mounted for viewing. •