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

..,.., (, THE COURIER-MAIL '\- -'----------- - · $3000 art win for Maria ' :, ,¥ .,t,., .' ;:f,.. •. :Y,R~- .., . ' ·. ; . 't,• ""f -' ;. , ,, . .. ,.< •:t.' ·-' '~ -~ MARIA KITROMILIDES, 16, a final year student' at Ke!Yin Grove High School, yc1tcrdoy ..,on the inaugural Melville Hoyaom Memorial Scholarship for promi1in9 young Queensland arti1t1, The ~cholarshlp "'"' funded wtt h a S20,000 capital grant. b)· Mclrille Haysom·s widow. Yvonne, pictured nbo,·e with Marla. et the Queensland Art Gallery yestcrdny. It Is designed to assist 11.r1, st.udcn l s or young artists by rtnanclng fur– ther studies In Anstrnlla or overseas. Ma rie won the S3000 prize with a collection of three prints and one oil painting entitled "Nnlu• raJ Forms," The win wlll enable her to attend Sev– en_Hllls College of Art. The oil painting 9,•'as among the first she had attempted. "Print ls my main Jove and Without the help or my art teacher, Miss Robyn Wretham I would not ho.ve come so far.'' she said. pa in\ 1111! and rimwinµ stu– dents iiurndlng an nn, school and ro,· 11eoplc untlH ~5. who ~howcd outst-a ncllng promise. ornrnll. winner from thi:; 6C.COl1rl group.., he SR id. Mel\'ille Ha ysom was awarded t he Coronnlion Mcdnl In 1053 for ;crvices lo art in Queenslnnd. Mr s . Hnysom snid: ''This scholarship Is U1e result of my se1uch for a wnr to perpcLuale the memory or ·my husband who. I reel, wns the most nil-round artist, or his time In Queensland." Here artists of the Poetic Circle, men who lived during the latter half of the 18th and early 19th century are concerned with the emotional, the violenl and the sublime in human experience. lnspiralion is from the great li1erary works of the past: Shakespearean plays, Blake's poems, the Bible, Dante and Greek myth and Milton's "Paradise Lost" , Artists such as Fuseli, Blake and George Romney are not contenl with the tradi– tional aeslhetic lheory of beauty alone and, in their accent on the sublime, are precursors of roman– ticism. In their frequent portrayal of dreams, they are precursors of sur– realism. This is 1he first occasion 1hat a major exhibition or 1he work of The Poetic Circle has been mounted in Australia. II is on view un1il August 19. ' An anist who won the Sulman Prize in 1968 at the age o( 19, is currently displaying rccenl pain– tings, watercolours and prints al 1he Philip Bacon Galleries, Anhur Street, New Farm. IOOWOOl-lll A C'lllln\l l'I I Tim Storricr's art has progressed and devel– oped from his early buildings and pale, lonely landscapes, 10 his present use or images such as strands of fencing wire, a boomerang and pebbles which are sometimes superimposed on an aerial view or our whole conti– nent. Starrier lhus suc– ceeds in incorporating bolh universal and pnr- 1icular aspects of Aus1ralia in an 2r1- 7- 1'1 7"J aginative way in his endeavour to capture the very essence or our coun– try. His present, sophisticated use of image reveals greater personal and conceptual involve– ment than was evident in his earlier more conven– tional work. • Pictured is an etching by James Barry, a member of The Poetic Circle, "Satin Calling up his Legions".