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

THE Queensland Art Gallery has paid $6500 for • – wood, aluminium and steel "one-of-a-kind" vehicle that changes shape as it moves. Callrornlnn sculpture teacher and sculptor. Mr. Michael Cooper. 35, created the rour metre long and two metre wide "M1mta Mn tic", H wn., the only piece or work he hrought with him when he nrrh·ed 111 Quccnslar:d to tnke up the Jlrst Craft.s Council o! Australia fellow– ship. Mr. Cooper built the "Mant& Malle" IHst )'enr • • nn entry In the l:ian Frnnclsco i\lu,eum or Modern Art fund ralslng one-of-a-kind-ve– hicle race. NI ne t y nrllst..s cr.tcrcd the rnce, which was a downhill coast. The CralL Council put the "Mant.a Mal– le" on display at the gallery two weeks ngo. Design J.ast t'rlday, the ,tal!ery bouJht the splndly-looklnJ vehicle for Its permanent collect.Ion. It will be on display ror ahont a month. ·'The "Manta Malle" Is a gpcc– tacular mix or craftsmanship. Jnge– i:ulty, design, fantasy and crcatJ\·e genius," gallery deputy director (Mr. Russell Kerrlsenl said yester– day. "The price pHld was ,·ery rcn• sonnble." The ,·rhlcle (ook thrre months to dt~Si!rn nnd almost. s1x months to construct. "l't Is made from laminated red oak, machined nlumlntum, welded nlrcrnrt sleet. three spccrnl btc,·cle ,, heels, and R cmnplctc 1mcumiltic control J\_\'. tcm lhHL Allows It LO chRn\!;c ~lrnpe IL mn,•cs:• Mr. Cooper snld. "When It moves, It · suggest,s both an octopus and a manta. rny." Mr. Cooper will say KOodbye to hla crenllon on Sunday when he lell\U Brisbane to continue h la eight• month fellowship work In West.em Australia, Victoria and New Boul.b Wales. Scheme 111e State Culture Minister (Mr. Ncwbrry) said yesterday the Feder• al Gol'ernment's trial tax lncenU\'e i:cheme had led lo the Queemland Art Gallery acquiring more t.han $300,000 of nrt work ln 18 months. He sold the latest girt of paln~– lngs, from Lady Trout, were worth $120.000 and would go on show as part of the gallery's permanent col• lectlon. l.ady Trout donated nine paint.– In~• In the gallery shortly after hor husband, Sir Lenn, president of the gallery's trustcrs for 13 years, died In March last year. She has gi\'en nnother five paint• lngs, received by the gallery )• est.et• , dny - works by French artlstR Maufm and Moret end Australian p u In t c r s Russell, St.rector, end.. Withers. Th c trial taxntlon Incentive ,chcme wns Introduced abOut Ill months niro lo boost Australia's cut•_ tural nnd hlston cnl collect,1ons. It orlcrs ,·nrlallle tax deductions~ In people who donate works to pub-– lie museums, llhrories nod nrt g•I• • i('l'ICS. ·-