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

QUEENSLAND Art Gallery director, Mr. Rooul Mellish, examines two sketches by actor Keith Michell. He Is holding one entitled " My eye hoth played the pointer." Actor's art for gallery THE Q 1 ueensland Art Gallery has acquired a $600 series of 12 pic– ture • by the Australian-born actor Keith Michell, wha is also a highly accampllshed artist. It ls understood this Is be the first acquisition or Michell works by nny public .gallery In Austra• lln. Gallery director !Mr. Raoul Mellish) recently returned from a three– month fnct-flndlng nnd acquisition tour of 1he United States and Eu– rope. lle wns Introduced to Kl'lth Michell In l ,ondon h~· the Australia Counell Theatre Board ohalrman 1Mr. Brian Sweeney, or Brl•bauct. " It wos a lucky sort nr meetln1<," Mr. Mellish sold yesterday. ''I hnd Just seen a colored lilh– ograph by Mr. M ichell In London's lendlni: graph– ic-art Curwen Studios. . Sonnets •·r learnt that the lllh– ogrnph wns one of n set of 1~. nnd told M t·, Mlr h• ell t-he Qu •nslnnd Art Ontlrrv would b Jnl('r– csi ccl 'in get In ~ tho set. Tile clen l ,,·ns done." A llthoi:raph Is II print d r a w n ft-om t-nrrra,•f'rl , lone. The i\llr.111•11 lllh– mrrnphs tllu~trah' 12 or the more thnn l:iO lnre !i!OnncLH by Shnke~1,ear1•. Th C Michell dozen. now nL th goller)·. In– cludes on ill11strnt1on or pt·obabl)' Slutkc penre's most. famous lore sonnet, "Shull T Compare Thee to n Summer's Da)•". Another, tnilfylng Michell the netor's In– terest In 11n1t1t111g sub,lecis from lllcr:11 ure end the pcrformln1,; urf,c:, Is 1111 II• lus1 rntl"n of Lhr sonnet which begin.~: "~'11ne eye hni.h plny'd 11,e pul111rr", lirllh )llchcll (T\"'1 "IIClll',\' \'111"1 aolcol In l\rl~hanr. IIH,l ~·enr with I lho ,·l<llln: t:ngllsh ('hl- 1'11esler Fc~lh·nl 'l'hr111rc ( '11m11ony nt Iler llujc,- 1,\"'s Thcat1·1•, '\