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

The Courier-Mail 4 December . QueenslandArtGallery Uu1:1•r,·,, ,, 1 ·J ( .:· ,,.,·. t ,., .,,,. '' .. :~ !l ·,: ' ,. T,·., ',,, .' -1 ,.• 1 .i I Trustees'Lecture. "SUNBURNT COUNTIY ANII DPALESCOIT WIDSCAPE - THE WT lANDSCAPES Of nm WIUIAMS" to be ~led by Mr Pl1rick Mc:ClugMV Mr Patrick Mc:Ceughey la pr1M11tly the Director of the National Gallery of Victoria. He is • past Art Ctitic for The Age and Proftttor of Visual Art• at Mona ah u nive,aity. Publication I auch IS "Australian AbstrllCt Art", " Thi Australian Painter• of the Heidelberg School" and "Thi Jack Manton Collection" establish him II an authoflty in Australian Art . FrH Public Lecture 8th December 1982, 7,30 p.m Venut: Auditorium, Outtntllnd CUiturai Ctntrl, UHIS Gallery Hours Monday to Saturday 10am -5pm Friday 1 Oam-9pm Sundav 1 pm· 5pm rhe Courier-Mail 4 December QUEENS~AND ART GALLERY Culhlral Ceatre South Brlalline P.O. Bo~· 486 South Brisbane 4101 Tenders arc invited b h lease of the Gallci t s/rust~ _for the Queensland Art Gall Y op w11h1n the . cry. Closing Time is 5 oo January 198 3 at ih P;;, Thursday, 13 tenders must be s e 1~ ~e address and clearly marked "Sho~\end~~.. an envelope Preference may be . · with established expeg_1ven to the tenderer conducting bookshopri tenceb a~d expertise in ~ ype usiness. ender Documents ar ·1 b by telephoning 240 1:2~va1 a I~ ~n request above address. or writing lo the Size of area is 8850 m 4250 mm " 2850 mm '"omr 1" 5800 mm, plus H' i, s orage etc ighcst or any tender not . accepted, necessarily Raoul Melllsb DIRECTOR ,r mb he courier -Mai l 3 De ce er Gallery breaks record 'Ille Queemland Art GaUtry broke an A11trallan attendance record wbe • art loters from around tbe world rislted the 1allery durin1 tbe Commoewealdl Gaines. 'Ille Tourism and Arts Minister, Mr Elliott. uld yesterday more than 100,000 people ,!sited the gallery ••ri•g tbe Games period between September 30 and October 9. TIiis compared with a pmlous record attendance luel wben • 106,000 people uw tbe Pompell ex– llibltion at City Hall during a se,en– week period In early 1981. More than 300,000 people bad ris– ited the new Art Gallery. since U opeeed in the Queensland Cultural ,Centre last June, he said. . Mr Elliott was speaking at tbe opening of the Queensland Art Gal– lffy's annual Trustees' Purchase Ex– llibitioa and a display of entries In tbe Andrew and Ullan Pedersen Me– morial Awards for printmaking, dnwing and small sculpture. Arecord 400 entries from artists around Australia were nominated for• tbe Trustees Purchase Collection this year. 'Ille Gallery makes an aMual aUo– catioa of $20,000 to buy works from tbe nhibition. Mr Elliott announced the six paintings cbosea, The winning en– tries were: "Split Planks", by Alfred Engel; "Ideas are Bound to T¥1·ig. I and 2", by Helen Llllecnpp; "Wil– denles,s", by Mike Nicholas; "Loacl– ing", by. Ju Senbergs; "Abandoned Quarry", by Michael Shannon; and "Latitudes 1982", by John H. Rob– imon, •· ..