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

"SHADD OF GIIEEN" 11 Jlle tit,. ol tttl1 prize 1111/nnlng entry In ttte Ma,.• Memorial Award NCflon at Hte Wide 81y Art Soclefy'1 1'19nltlblltanandcompetition. n.1111 Ille Nral ,.., tttt, Nelon,_ IINn Included In Ille annual competition and II I• open to young artl1t1, 18 ynn • nd under. 1"' lllllnner.. l• Jo-Ann Ne,.on. Ottter 1111lnnen In tttl1yNr'I competition are Don Hufcltlnaon,'I IMllll/ed Nr,llc, Dennll Fl'Ndmln'l "P • r • do•"• and Jan Grabbe'• "S.aattore". TIie ,,,..,.,,, ol Hte Wide lla1, Art Soclaty, which arpn#Nd Ille competition, Mr Rag c.,,,,,,.,,.., 11 plctuNd r,lft, the Jud,,., Mr J, ...., , looking at Jo-Ann'• winning painting. Wide ·bay art exhibition Nola Gabbe ,;om Bundaberg - winner of the water colour section receiving her award for her painti,;g "Rustle of Spring". From left, Judge Jo_hn Massey _from Queensland Art Gallery, Reg Commings, President of Wide Bay Art Society and Brian McIntyre · Caltex. '' ' Searching for a 'happy accident' THE 1979 Wide Bay Art Competition, which opened In St Paul's Memorial Hall last night, ha, attracted a large body of high standard work, according to the Judge, MrJohn Many, of Brllbane. Mr M111y, an education officer with the Queensland Art Gallery. beside• painting and ex– hibiting. has also been a teacher in school• and adult education. He told the audience that when looking ror a winner among !¥Ork• of art he look lnlo a.,:counl rour considerations. These wen, the work's appearance, inoluding ronn, shape and colour: Ila intelleolual approach: Ila emotional appeal, which invited viewer parlicipalion: and a further quali&y which wu diltloull lo define, bul wbloh could be described u "a happy acoldent" that made an arl work appeal lo ao individual. · •U wu ao&... J Judainlr the ealrl• beca- tlieni WU Doi ODD work in UI)' eectlon &bat wu an oul• rlabt .._r. But It wu dellablful lo ponder lbe lotal entrlN and even• tually narrow tbe wlnnere before inaldna a ftnal selection In each eeotlon, Mr Ma•y nld. The competition, organised by lhe Wide Bay Arl Sociely, was sponsored by Callex, the Chronicle, Mr and Mrs A. Zemek,the Maryborough City Council and a number or oily businesses Including the Maryborougb Co– operative Dairy Assoola– tio,,, Boye Ply Ltd, Hyne and Son and Alelon Prin– ting. Commenting on eeo– llon one - the Sl500 ac– quisitive Caltex award ror n,pn,sentatlonal pai– nting In oil or acrylics of aoy noooanlaable subject - Mr Mau:, said that In this eectlon an artial had lo uk himself:"What can I do that a camera can- not?" · "Hot art" The winner of thi • sec– tion, Mr Don Hutohinaon, with hie untitled pain– ting, left the viewer with a "bot bleached eensa– tlon lbat made you want lo squint and analyee the painting," Mr Masey said. 11 Yoa can obNrve tbe etructnre of lbe work and almo • t feel tbe parched, bleached beat," he Aid. Beoauae the water In the paintingwas nol biue the viewer looked ror blue elsewhere in the painting and round ii n,fieoled in the tn,ea, It waa a true represen• lational painting, Mr Muay said. Section two - the IIKlO Wide Bay Open award ror any aubJecl In any medium - waa an 1.n– tere • ling section because of its pal variety and intere • I, which made ii very dlffioull lo make a final deoiaion, Mr Massy said. He • aid "Desolation" b.y Bunly MoEvoy would mal!e the viewer want lo noarraugo Ute units arrl noally make him u • e 1ie intellect, be said. Potential "Yet lo Come" by Val Webb showed tremen– dous potential and he felt this artiat could produce really first olaea work. " Painting Number Six" by Coralie Busby, showed a very pleaelng colour sense and tn,men– doua e11uberanoe. MAINLY ABOUT PEOPLE (.\H\IEI. Two paintings i,,, Lola Thomsen "No Per– manence" and "Fragments or Life", por– trayed a vital palntlna quality. while "Art Clu • at Coogee Bay" by George Kirk WU full or vitality and exuded a eenae of Joyous ex– perience, llr 11bNJ pv • lbe Calt • x enooanp-nt award lo ''fl • a lllloN" bJ ,Jea Onbbe, wbD aboWN tremendoa • • --lUYitJ and a lot of potential, II • nld. The first prise waa awarded to• Dennis Fnoeman for hi • acrylic "Paradox", which wu nol ao much about colour aa atruoture, Mr Muay aald. On section tbn,e, the A. and P. Zemek e1110 water– colour award ror any subJeol, Mr Massy com– men led that water– coloura should not be treated aa a poor oouain and dlaoriminated against becauae they wen, normally smaller lhap other art works. . 5th floor, MIM Building · ' 160 Ann Street, Brisbane Telephone 229 2138 .Queensland Art Gallery Stop Press Tru1tee•' Lecture Owing to the sudden illness ol 1979 - cancelled Sir WIiiiam Dargl•. tonight's Trustees' Lecture for 1979 has been cancelled. Public Lecture Free Film In place of the Trustees· Lecture. a lltm will be screened at 8 00 pm on an asoectcl Contemporary Art. Clement Greenberg,lead,ng American art crll•c will lecture on modern art,Sunday 4 November at 2 30 pm. Late Night Viewing! , Fridays,onlll 9 00pm , This was not alway • the cue - aome artiala painted large water- colour •. "' , II waa a very dUfioull medium to handle cor– rectly, he said. The winner waa Nola Crabbe's "Ruatie of Spr• Ing", which the Judp said had aurtioient alnongth lo di • cnodit presumption that water colours wen, "wishy washv". This palntina retained lhe traditional transpan,nt quality nor– mally aa • ooialed with watercoloura. New award Th~ Malex Memorial award introduced for the first time thl • year ror arliala up lo and in- , eluding 18 year • of age wu won by Jo-Ann Nelaon with her acrylic work. "Shadea ofOn,e1,". This painting was an interesting example or how a young per • on rac– ed uo to the quoetlon "Do I need mono?, or oould I have done with leaa'I" She had done thl • suoceHfully In her win• ning palntlnlf. Many adult artiata had not yet learnt bow lo apply lhia rule oornootly, Mr Muay aald. Tbe oomp • tlUon will be 0119D for free public -snarromlbl • - n1a1 nntll 8atartla7 ev • nlnl(. Then, an, mono than 210 entries in this year' • competition and the whole exhibition i • well worth vlewlna. . There la al • o a beatatUul noral dl • play by the Marl~~.rouah HortlouUural ~at:,,