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

Gallery a 1 place for enioyment' . • ~~y J FEW people realise what the Queensland Art Gallery hn!I lo offer, according to Mrs Caroline Luunil7.• Schurer, above. Mrs Launtt.z-Schurer, 31. recenlly a11polnt– ed education officer at the gallery, would like more children and city o!llce workers to visit the cent.re. "Only about one-tenth or t,he gallery's 3000 nrt works are shown at n time and this exhlbl• tlon changes every month. "With t he visiting lnternntlonnl collections, displu~•s, lunch hour fllms and leclUres It Is qu ite n lively pince,'' she said. Part of her Job Is to transmit her own en– thusiasm about art to enrich other 1>eo11le's visits to the gallery. · She organises games !or chlldren and ex• plains works of art to groU(JS ol 1 eople, In– cluding pre-schoolers, senior school nrt stu– dent,s, nnd adults. By ELAINE REES Some people muy prefer the grn(Jhlcs In The Poetlcul Circle : Fuscll and the British nnd modern Austrnllun paintings exhibited ut present. Mrs Launltz-Schurcr Is Interested In the wny nrt reflects t he society ol Its time nnd ,·iews origlnnt works tn the 11erlod In which they were created. She studied h lstor~• nt the Austrnllnn Nn– llonnl University In Canberra where Professor Munning Clark was head or the dO(Jlll'tment. "He has such nn hnnglnntive nppronch lhnt l rouldn't help but be lnllucnced by him," she sold. She completed n Mnslcr ol the Aris nnd st udied t he paintings nnd the 11erlod ol 19lh ccntun , America. She met a nd married Mr Leo Lnunllz– Sohurer. o. Cnnndlnn who hnd sl111llnr Interests tn Amcricnn h lslory. Her husbnnrt Is now n lec– turer In the University of Q11ee11slnnd hlslory ctrpnrtment. All er two years tnlorlng nt Sydney Unlver• slLy Cn rolinc won n ~lx-111onth research schol– nrsblp Lo New York In 1972. "We visited nrt gnllcrles every weekend. They hnve some mnrvcllous collections. cspc– clall)• Ihe Nntlonnl Onllery or Art In Wushhtq- 1.on nnd the Metropolltnn Museum ol Art 111 New York. "Americans visit their gnllcrlcs on week– ends j ust ns we might go to the coust. It Is noL LtmL we are less Interested. The rcnson Is 1>roh– nbly more linked to the warmer 01!111111.e here," she sold. Mrs Laun !tz-Schurcr snid Interest In art woulcl grow ns leisure Umo incrcnscd. S he ls excited nt the 1irospcct nl the gallery gnl nlng larger premises And mor; stnfl nnd equipment when It moves to lhc Drlshnnc Cul– turn l Cent re In 1982. T he new gallery would hn,·e n rending t'oom, n ,norc extensive llbmry on Quccnslnnd nt·llsts und more space !or the nrL work, ~he snid. The Queenslnnd Art Onllcry, on the 5th floor of t he MLM Bulldlng. An11 Street, IS Oj)CII Monday to Snturdny lrom 10 n.m. until 5 p,m. 11nd lrom 2 until 5 p.m. on Sund0)'S, T here WIii be S(JCClnl nctlvitlcs !or chlld l'Cll durlnl( the school holldnys which begin next Mond11y.