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

The Daily Sun 4 Nov e mbe r 198 2 i 18M !ENDERi LfT FOR~ ~,J NEW STAT(- I MUSEUM AN Sli;3 ...., .. for the fflUNIMI bulking - third .... of the 0uNnaland Cultural Centre-was~ t9d yesterday by the i = s.. Government. ~ = The llinlater for Houa- i _ing and Woru. Mri S Wharton, oaid the S = tender had been awar-j ded to Prentice (Qld) pty = Ltd. "The whole centre : should be flniahed by· 19!6 with tendel'II being: called for the final sta,e, i the dtate Libruy, within• 12 montha," he said. "The new butld.lne wtll provide the Queensland Museum wtth three Umee the space tliey have now. ' "The present museu·m ! Is overcrowded and the Internal structure Is; unsound." · = The - museum will be ~ connected to the = Queenaland Art Gallery • by a Pedestrian mall, : provjdtnr visual access· to the displays :M hours a 5 day. E ..................... , ...................... ~ Atl THE STUNNING exhibition, "Inter– national Directions In Glass", on view at the Queensland Art Gallery until November 21, Is prompting many "ooohs and aaahs". ~-. Of the 60 works contributed,by vari• ous countries, 34 arc by Amcri,cana. . This is no wonder because 1t wu an the United States, a country without the glass traditions of the Old World, that revolutionary idcu about glua .i.rt were first developed ,.nd where the ill· dividual studio glv.s movement fow,d support first. With the revival of crafts since the early 1960s, the studio glass movement spread. The exhibition is so varied that the interest is sustained. Quality and craftsmanship arc high throughout, but people with fixed idca.s about glass wi11 have to rcconaider, and open their cyca and minds to a wealth of creative options within reach of ~1- isation in this fascinating and veraat1le Credit goc, to t e Art allcry o Western Australia, which initiated this cllhiblti011, the craft board and ind111- tries ~ umted. and Michael &– son wbo wu the aelcctor of the works. Elion'• aim was to cover a1 many different approaches aa possible and to have good representation of ~rcc main categories: v~ (small obJ,cct,_~lp– tun:), installation and tw~onal works. ' or course, it ii impoaible to do jus- tice to such a number of worb of merit. and I must be forgiven for mentioning just a few among tb01e I admired. · The large corutruction of p)ateglasa nnd blown &)ass by Tbcrman Statom. (I bear it toolc five people five houn to 1n• stall) takes one's breath away. Al•o Dale Chibuly's lovely sea shells-, tbe opaque vessels by Joel P~ilip Myers, the sculptural glass works of Thomas Patti, Robert Levin, Jutta Cuny. And, of course, the beautiful works by the Japanese: Kyohci Fujita•• octag– onal casket "Colored Clouds", Malcoto Hito's "Plate", both typical of tradi• tional Japan~ aesthetics, ~nd Kaz~lco Eguchi's delightfully fresh 1nstallat1on, "Melancholy". The exhibition is accompanied by a beautifully produced catalogue. / 7 DR GERTRU E LANQf:R