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

Th /\us - r .:ili c l ': 0 111•n ' s \,J -· r ./ - ' ~ • r Artist Peter Travis, whose nine brightly coloured kites adorn the new $28-mil– lion Queensland Art Gallery, dyed much of their cotton fabric himself to obtain the exact colours he wanted . .. For a while I had terrible problems ,., he recalls . ·· 1 couldn't get the dye to take. Eventually university tests re– vealed that the chlorine in the water was causing the trouble.'· A lecturer in ceramics at the City Art Institute in Sydney, Peter began using kites to make a formal statement about colour eight years ago. Since then his kite sculptures have won him acclaim, in– cluding honorary membership of the Ja anese Kite FI in Association. I AM rl'sc ar_chin!( thr hfl' a nrl work ol Queensla nd photog raphers· ' H . Chargois. S tanl!'_1· Eutropc. J ohn H. Fo~tl' r . W Hume. Ll's Mc- Kay. J . T . McMahon . Jas A Murrav. Wa lter O rthman . W1!11 am Robson, Rl>sr S 11n- 111ond.s. Hl' wr a rt A Snape anrl O tl 10 Wt• IJb w ith 3. Vl('W to or!(a111 s1ng an l'Xh1bitio11 I would ap prrc1atl' hrann~ I m m an _von r who h as pltoto– gr aph s. doc unw nt:-;. lr ttrrs or wl in kn e w a n ~· of th r photo– graphe rs Ass1~tant Cu rator of Prin ts and Draw111i.:s Q1 11•c n s la nd Art Ga ll,·ry l'O Uox 686 <.;u1 1tl1 lln ~ba111· 41 0 1 10 ov rn b e ,- I 9 8 ·