Queensland Art Gallery Presscuttings Book 8 : Pressclippings, 1977-1981

.... The Courier Mail May lfi., 1979 By DAVID T/CKELL With IM1-t thla and polarold that It la 11en1 ta lmaalne llf• without the camera, but IIO or ao :i,eara ... there were no -•andtllepor- . trait artl•t rell(Mtl ·~· Jn Australia, with Its vast distances, his work was well and truly cut out travelling to and from the outback prop– erties of his customers. The Queensland Art Gallery currently Is playing host to a fasci– nating exhibition titled A u a t r a II a n Colonial Portraits which Is being toured around the na– tion. Aaaembled by Ms Eve :Buacome for the Aue• Maior trallan Gallery Direc– tors Council the exhibi– tion features 60 works from artists of the early 19th century like Au– gustus Earle, Thomas Bock end T, G. Wainwright. The works on display In the gallery's premises on the fifth floor of the MIM Building In Ann Street cover the range from miniatures to huge family l)Ortrelts nnd are a vivid record or fru;h– lons and styles of the period, Ms Bui.:ombe assem– bled the portraits from private collections all ve d s Courier Mail May 18, 1979 she Is Interested to hear from anyone who has a portrait of an ancestor paInted 9r sketched Jn the 19th century. The portrait.~ dls– p I II ye d show land• owners. their wives, lo– c11I dignitaries, chlldnn and even a colJl)le ot quite delightful • works showlhg a landlord and his wife ... not exactly First Fleeters, but not far off. T h e accompanying catalogue Is a nilne of lni.ereatlng detail of the artists and their sub– ects. may come here. QUEENSLAND could be host to three major international exhibition • in 1982, the Culture, National Parks and Recreation Minister (Mr. Newbery) said Y••· terday, The exh1bltlon could be lied up with the open– Ing or Quecnslnnd's new art ~ullery and the Com– mon w c n ll-11 nn mes Jn Brisbane In 1982. Mr. Newbet)' snld the exhtblllons had hcen or– rered rollowlns n l'isll lo the Unlled S(ntes. Brit– ain and the Contlnem b)• the Quee11slRlld llrt Gnl– ~~;,{11 ~t~ctor 1.\lr. n,,oul 0\'cr rns rxprl'l~ hnd expressed illlercst In the new QnC'rnsln nc1 C11lt11rnl Centre. rn1lnu ll us equol to IIIll' In the ll'orld, he sn ld. The cc111re nnd the Gnme., hurl mode Brls– hnne the /ncnl polnl or I l1Hc11111tlonnl nu c111To11 1111<1 11lrrndy wcrn belt1~ drscrlbed n• U1e Queen - 11111<1 experience. The proposed oxhlbl- tlons ror the new arl gal– lery opening included a retro pcct or the de,·el– o pm e n t. of CUl l, lll'C' mounted b)" the Mei.ro~ politan Mu. eum or New York. Mr. Newbery said, It nlso Included a col- lecllon or rennlssn nce hro111.cs from the Victoria nnd Alber! ~tuseu111 Iii London o •1d n collection of rcnn 1 ssnnca drnwins·s rro111 the 1\shmoleun Ll– brnrl' In Oxford. A second mnJor exhlbJ- tlon belnir discussed ror Lhe gallery io mark the Commonwenllh J Oamca would be tn lhoee parts - the mst tracing the or art In w,,. ........- ... .. \