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

25 February 1983. The Courier-Mail . .;.. , 1 ew scope in art awards ONE of Australia's richest art Art . compet itions . the $6500 - Entry fee 1s SIO for a single SGIO Art Awards, is in for a Mr Mellli.h, Mr John Rigby !nnttrryy aannddSa211fo~ ea~h addiktiobcnal few eh h' - d -M • winning wor s • anges I 1s year. an . r J~hn Cooper. Mr Rig- come the property of SGIO SGIO general manager Mr by is art director at Seven Hil!s Entries must not have won any Bernard Rowley has announced AE_rt College, and Mr ~ooper 1s award in any other competition.- the restructuring of the the ight Bells G~llery director at 1983 awards, a~d the widening Surfer~Paradise. . . . ~II p~oceeds from thecompe- of the compcu11on scope to in- Artists who have lived in t1t1on will be divided among the elude photograp_hy.. Queensland for at least _th_e year Ch_ildre~·~ Hospitals Appeal, The compct111on 1s tradition- to May I, 1983, are eligible to Spina 81f1da Association and ally held in August Show week, enter. Down's Syndrome Association. but for 1983 the date has been brought forward to May. Entry forms must therefore be lodged with the office by 5 p.m. on April 13. "SGIO will allocate $5000 ~or the acq~isition of paintings in any medium, and $500 each for acquisitive prints, drawings an_d photographs," Mr Rowley said. . The inclusion of photographs in. the 1983 competition would bring the awa rds into line with similar overseas counterparts, Mr Rowley said, which now recognized photography as an art form. Selected entries will be ex– hibited al the SGIO Theatre from May 5 to May 13. ___'!:1is year the judges will be I I 23 February 1983. Downs artists represented in landscape exhibition The work of past Darling Downs artists is included in a current ex– hibition at the Queensland Art Gallery. J . J. Hilder was born in Toowoomba, and Kenneth M.1 ~– queen lived and painted in the Millmertan district. Their pictures, as well as approximately 58 other drawings, prints, watercolours and pastels: the work of about 25 other artists, comprise a show entitled: "The Australian Landscape: Selected Works on Paper," which continues until March 20 in Brisbane. The development of landscape art in this country is traced from the realism o( Conrad Martens, S. T. Gill and A-L. Buvelot, where Euro– pean influence is strong and where foliage is usually carefully defined; to Hans Heysen's gum trees an the clarity of the Australian light which he endeavoured to portray; to the stark and arid central area of the country painted in the Arunta tribal manner; to the work of contem– porary artists. .., _______ .., .... ,,.,- The Chronicle. Frank Hodgkinson's abstracted paper bark trees and the individuali– ty of John Olsen and Fred Williams simplify the Australian landscape to its essentials. In his paintings of the 1970s, such as "Ruin In Flood I" Olsen uses gouache on paper. His calligraphic marks give the impression of a child-like spontaneity. The picture has a freshness which captures the essence of the scene before him. Fred wmiams also captures this essence in his lithographs. The quali– ty of apparently random black marks on the cream picture plant of "Acacias" is important, as is the quality of gold, blue and red marks on the ochre picture plane of "Wer– ribee Gorge Landscape." J. J. Hilder's waterdolour over pencil, "Landscape Near Carl– ingford," 1910, and his "Timberget– ters" of 1912, will interest Toowoomba spectators as will Ken– neth Macqueen' s paintings of Maroochydore and of harvesting. "Minsimarny Creek" (Billabong) c 1940, watercolour over pencil: the work of Kenneth Macqueen. / J