Queensland Art Gallery Presscuttings Book 3 : Presscuttings, Sept 1959 - Sept 1967

e,•. 1,0. '"••••: MU 51 ll bi. 1904 .,._, MUIIJI Aust. Press Cuttings Agency M1lboume, Vlctorl• A • at. Pr111 C1lll1p Ap111 MIIIIM-, VicMrlo From "WEST AUSTRALIAN" From "MAIL" Brisbane, Q. E,•. 1904 2 I 19~ '1; 2 .I ,-, .Juclging Stai•ts On Paiulin«s 9ueensJan<1 A . e 1 director La 1 1 1 Galle,·y has sla n ed ulr u Thorna·s tlnal 6J ·. mlglnl? the Wlllercolo, 11 ? 118 and . 14 submltled tor J>ah111ngs £910 Perth P _1_ the 1963 'l'hn win I ze. nounced ners Will be 1111. tlon ope,::::l th e exhlbl– dn.1•. on Thurs. .... 1904 ••,. , ..... 0,1111111 ....., MIIIIM-, YlcleN "TELEGRAPH" 2 9 ,,AN 19 63 Brl1blne, Q. VALUABLE PAINTINGS Gallery storage troubles The Queensland Art Gallery' • £235,470 collection of paintings will be on dlsplny for only six months this year. ThlS Js because ot space pre..,ures which u-e 1hren1eninR to turn the Stnte·s Art Gallery Into 11 Klgantlc •torehOuse "Our collection °will be displayed for about alx months of the year at ir– regular intervnis-perhaps a week or two here, a month there," the Gal– lery's Assistant-director <Mr. Robert Smith) 111ld yesterday. "\Ve would Uke lo haft part or our eolleetloa on dloplay all the tt-, _llut when we have elfflllll• lion• or plcluN!II on IOIID -a, we h•ve now-we don'I haYe the apace "We have a heavy • pro– grnmme of tourln& exlilbl• tlons In th~ comln1 year. Get at out "Even In normal ctrcum– tancea we can ahow only 70 or 80 or our collection of alm<Mt 800 palntlnp at the one time. "If people want to aee a partleul8r palntin1 we wt11 &~t out of 1torap for An exhibition of 171 Australian point– ing, will be held ot the Queensland Art Gallery next month. One official nld: "'Moat ---- of the paintings are vnlu- Modern Art, nnd Ihr ~~lcSlcf.~~•cl~~l~nt_h';.-1~or~: arust~1ff~~~~·C:i1s. water connnancflng top prices colors and modern syn - O\'ersens. thetlcs. "ln•urtd ralue would All or the works we, r run Into many, many painted between 1937 nnd thou.. ncl• of pound•." 19t7. The vicc-111·esldcnt of Gallery official• ,aid · ~n ~/~~i'f lsllJ\~!e~~· 01!\~ !:':fd, i:ebe ont•~~blll~~ the exhibit.Ion on Febru- lar«e•t arraa1ed In Brb- ary 7. bane. Entitled Rebels nnd Pre- They snld the 171 pnlnt– cursors, it will Include thr lntrs would have to !It work of six Australlans. Into space normnlly used They nre Sidney Nolan, to dlsplRY 80. AlbcrL Tucker, Arthur The entire gnllcry l!tll.Uld Boyd, Yosl Bergner, John be uoed. - ~tr:w·nl, nnd Danlla V1U1•1 ....--...,.,,.,.,- Nolan. Tut'kcr, and Boyd r~ 1 • '}:~:'~r::r.~:~ 1~~~1~W/~t ~ ~J:'tc~n\~n:?'~ 1 l igct~on~fJle lntucst. One of largest exhibitions The Brisbane exhibition 'l\'111 be of works on loan to the National • 01\ller·y tritMeYG~i~-\~. ~~:~~~1\\~~~i ..,. 1904 Aust. Press Cuttings Agano1 Melbourne, Victoria "COURIER MAIL" Brisbane, Q. ,; r •."' ' S3 11imnm11lm1111111111n,1111111111tllttlnlffi1iin,,1111111um .. , ,. ... 4r~...- - A' ·p'ortrait success T HE Lady Mayore11 I Mr1, Clem JanH I hH obtal•ed o portrait of Sir Joh• Cho•dler olter 1111otiotion1 lostinca al,out •h••• weeks. Mrs. Jones. the City Ha ll hlslorical nnd arts com– mittee chnlrrnnn. , aid thb last nlghL. The pnlnllnq mi~ht be hun~ in thr Cir y Council clrnmher. Mrs. Jones .,ntrl the por– trnll of Sir John. n former Loni Mni-or of Brisbunc. hRd been obtnlnrd from the Public Gnlirr)· 1hrnugh n mrmbrr of her ro111m11- tee. Mr. Luurlr Thnmns. the ~"llcry dlretlllr. M rs. Jo11e~ :-nid LhA t l\bOUI A mont II R40, h er cnmm1ttce clr clrircl tn nr– ralll!C to µr, 1mr1rntt~ of Rl1 Grcatrr 8 l'i, h1rnr Lord Ma rors. L'nsl, Tuc~tlHv. Alderman F. L. Olsrn ,c.M.O.. Mt. OrnvnU,) J;n\'c 11111 ,er 11ml todnv he ,\roulrl 1110 \'(~ tllH l the council corislrlcr olJ• talning and h1mgrng " suil- 1\blc portrait of Sir John Ohnndler. ''ho11e, MU II JJ Aust. Press Cuttings A Melbev,.,., Ylctort. llftOJ From - "~~ST, ~~STRALIAN" ( " , i I ( ' r• ( I ' . . ' . ' •l' Perth, W.A. :ii t~ -~LEI -c.J~Q_PE_ 11 n [JlUrl.. Tl111111a•. 8011.'C of tir e JII OSI i11l~r- dlrL'<'IOr lhn e•l111a lire b.v_ MOIIJl(I, uecn•h•~• wlro /r a.• loco_/J1Ct11rcs 111 vh,lh.'<I l'crth lhl• w1-ek llti• Pert~ p~ze.• to Judir•• tho J•.,rth l'rb.e 'fill!/ Ski1111cr Ga lleries 111 1h11 \\'.A. Art Gullury. u;i// d u,se !01/uy u11d He ins tigated the prizo will not 1·e-ope11 till. tl,e whe n lw was clirrctor of Fred Je•·•" /> ,how, stnrt– the W .A. gallery. Hu i11y 011 Febrow,·y 4, suld tlw standard of this • • • venr's entries was Im• JN the Festival o( Perth pressive and the res· 11lay, "A Man tor All po nse from Eastern Seasons." the dPcor Is In• Stut es artist s wns heart· rrenlously simple but cun• cning. ningl~r contrived to The final clrl'i~ion was change swiltlv frnm one difficult wit h (our J)aint· scene t.o another with ings reaching the final the sliding o( a door or jurlging- 1\-!olvlg's "Fam• lhe shifting of a few ii~," Hodgin~on's "A pieces of furniture. c ·ree n Wind," Lynn's II was des igned by "Vertebraie" and \VII• young New Zealand Bl'I· ]la m's "Sapling Forest." 1st Desmond Digby, who Molvlg's work won the was In Perth last March. prize. His cos tume designs are • • • superb!\• rlrh a nd have subtle Inference Into the '!'HE exhibit Ion of Brl- J>layers' characters and ti sh sculpture nt the role. IN.A. Art Galler·y Is the Digby now lives In Syd• most exciting art show ne)•. There has t,een talk singed during any Fcsll- of an exhibition of his val o[ P c1•th. drawings here, and It Is The pirces presrnted hoped that he will hold problems for the gallr ry. one. Many of thrm weigh AT T.1't: <fu.l~t:RU-:S hundrrds of pounds ancl W.A. Art Gullory-1.owcr they should all. excc•pt gallery-Recent 1tri1ish sculp· for Adam's triangular 111rc. Upper gnllery- t%3 fo rms anrl SL'Veral i:.mnll Perth Pn1L·. Print rnom– pir-ccs, stand In the open Au,t~aliun drnwin~s. Month– a ir \Vherc light nnd shnd- I)' ft.•,11urc for J:u111:1ry- Rom– O\\'S can play on their ol:t Clif1on. Opl'n Monrlay to s urfaces FriJuy 10.30 h, ~ p.111.; S111- Gallery _ofClrlals hnve ::•,;\''.Y anti Sundny 2.30 to 5 don e their utmost to Sklnntr Gullcrl..-Mcod- s pacf" the f'Xhihits fnl' mnrl! ,culrture enou gh npnrt to :i;re the 1111in1ingi, closing fo rms in the round. l2J0. « « • e:!-~'·:~o~." 1 !~~!;l~:t"'f1f1 ~~~i A VISIT to the )ll"int s,rurtlay. Open Tucstlny und 1·onm ot tlo e W.A . Ar/ Wednrnl:iy 7 1<1 9.J0 p.m.: Gallery i• well worth Thurs,tay und Fridny JO 10 while. The uuller!l'S col• 4 .,:;j~~: 1 5 h!~~!~st,~nJ~ 1 i!~: l erliD?I o/ Aust,:a1lan 1hcw,, t con .l'rilehnrd on drmuma• are 011 view- 1wo I's A. mcmbm, Jennf 'Dr.11stlllle, Doliell, Pnrtt Dunning and Baynard Wernt'r. a11d several others. Bui Open offie<: ond cheulre hodrs. l ............................ ~ ...... r;:........ 'l,j°~'3· Ex-M.L.A. \ecomes ,, ·· ''Y';~ Queen's Counsel B IUSIANI b91rl1t91 •"· I••'"•' P••ll•111•••..I•" Mr, Peter ConHlly h11 hHft oppolnt..t Q-"•• CounHI. Mr. Connolly, 42, mar- ried, graduated from Queensland University. He was a lecturer In con– stitutional Jaw there before he entered aeneral practice M a. barrister In February, 1949. Last n1onth he WM ap– pointed to assist In the In• vestlgatlon ol the Reid Murrl\y group of companies In H':. 1 tKurllpa He held the Brisbane seat ol Kurllpa for the Liberal Puty from 1057 to 1980, but wa.s defeated by Alderman Clive Hughes :!1et~J01~·1 ~f rt!n~rJ!f,li~; the 1960 State election. A cit.izen-soldler, Mr. ConnoJJy served with the A.J.F. 181h Infantry Brigade In World Wa.r 11 Jn u,e Middle EMt and the PlloClfic. From 1059 until last year e w•~ commanding officer ( Ute Queensland Unl– erslty Regiment <O.M.F.l .