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

Variety for the Selected entries in both the Trustees Purchase Exhibi– tion and the L. J. Harvey Memorial Prize for Drawing, which :ire on view at Queensland Art Gallery until November, 30 embrace a wide variety. lhnging has been h3ndled well, 10 that comparison within ceriain 1roup1 i~ encouraged. As 520,000 has been I made available for pur• chases rrom the Trustees Exhibition, the question arises u to why only about hair the amount has been lp<nl. Thi< has not been cxpl.11ned. My duly a, cri1ic i~ tn dr.1w a1tcnt1on 111 Mll1H~ of lhe mnrc onlstanding '""ks here thJL n11i;h1 hal'c 4uahf1ed. * The magi.: oi I "C" ve Nau:1s:.u~ und Or.1npc Tree' by i\r1hur UoyJ. priced at S 12.000, would have ,wallowed up a large proportion of the available money. The splendid larae c3nvas "Wurm Up" by D11id A•pde11 was well within reach at 53500. This painting looked much better when recently ahown al St. John"s ( ART REVIEW by Or. Gertrude Langer) Cathedral a'nd "·ould look @OOd 1n the new gallery 1A,p1lcn won lhe Rid111d, 1'11,c in 1~71, but hi< r:11111inp ""' nut .1,qu11c11). l>il·~ \\at~in• is anal her impurtanl ,ontcmporary. I think. ,11II unrcprc,cnlcd i11 our Stale c11llcc11011. II i ~ "11 an~ d n g" (S2000) here is a culurl'ul, lively, rhythmically controlled painting, a ra1hcr good cumple or Ab,tmct Exprcssioni,m. D1tid Voi2t'1 "Ravehhill Gate," cool, elegant and subtly demanding on pcrceplion, is of a kind o( which there ii little in nur S1,1tc collec1tnn, and S 14~0 cnuld hJ1a been \\ell ,rcn1. Thi--. i~ j11,t lo mention my 111,1111 choices amnn~ thtKC nnl ch,"en: lhl•fl' are qulle a n111nbcr of g,,od works here amonl! lhc,n. A< Lo the purchased wnrli:.;;: Gunltr Chriitman11'• "M.S.", a fine cxampl: of his spelled field paintings with which he cslablishcd • fine reputation, is a happy choice and is an important addition to the g1llery'5 collcclion in which Chri,lmann so far wn represented only by a very good walcr color, presen1cd by the Gallery Society. * llrnri Ra,tin. the mn<t hiphly prkcrl Au,1r:1lian 1 illd~i:on hnrnt . r _ri m1_if 1 ar11,1. s1:1r1c,t p;11n1rng in middle age when he hcl'anu.· an opal miner in 1)11ecn.1land's opal fields. llc died last September in Sandgate, when~ he had retired. "COUIUtK MAIL" lri11Nne, Old. - 3 i1:.: : ·1~79 viewer...1 Hi• Gum Tree l'nre,t, a rare and t<qui,ite pencil rurcha,eit for ~JOIIO, " dr:n,ing, and sol\'cd my the fir.,t work nr his the dilemna in 1hc manner a,,llcry ha< acq1mcd. ahc:iJ)' puhlieis_ed by Sha• lluc ini :olrcadv othc"· was ,,ell rcpre,eni<d hi Rnbcrt .lad• i• . <>r l\n1 ma jnr \\o,k,;,~ her international ~1and1ng. larlh and Sc.1< """ and1hcpricchrpu1,,nh" R.1rrcn Joey \\ ;1~ ,1d1k1L c.Jr,m1ng \itilS 11,tt mul.'.h A 11 e>:11nple or llnnald higher I han •11111e lc»cr Frirnd'._ ,cr•11(rn nf lh\! but more ,c:\l•opiniatcd b, 1'111111\e 2olulcnf ikrn, arli>IS put on !heir print,. '~~500) ruo\ ..:d 1rr..:,1,1 I• hie. and Joy Ro~~••· l.ump•s walcrculor, llluwn Sands, wu pur~hascd ror $500. * 1 There is a Iman to ht lcnrned u to 1hc so or1cn qu ite absurd rclatinn Cuy Warrtn'• between arlislic value and uncommon water color monetary v3Juc. Also the here (S400) might have quire silly ideas that caught the eye • , ••• pcr,iH about what but, as I had been ~ivcn constitutes a "major.. the oportunity of judging work or ut. the Harvey Pri1c, wa,i In lhis eompetitinn harry to awnrd it to Guy "I-leads" by Peler Dnorh Warren's enlry 8:olmain w:os fti<n s close runner-up: Drn1~ing No.~- an intense drnwin~. which Warren's ,cn,iri,·c holds one 11i1h hy11no1ic co-opc=r:ition with l"h:tn:oal ptnh•r. and p:i pcr, hi, rcfincmcnl, l>11vid Rankin. I.en I) rici,m and clcganl Wilhsun. .lock n1111cr– cnn1rol rc,ulied in rhi• hue~. 1!11bcr1 Ciroevc, lla,il rnn,t 1-ati..,l\111g irn:1~c. lladlcv, Rruno Lc11 . 111,1dc, 1ly pri,·cd nl ~~1111. Ku«cll Cra1µ, l: rorn (The l'urchasc Pri,c "as Mc(i1lehri,1, .lnhn llnd- 55001. ing,. J11d11h 111111110. O:l\uJ I had In make n difficult Se1bcr1, .lnhn l'uburn. and choice, as J liked Jll<t a< qu11c a number of nlhcrs much Quick Silvery cnn1rib111c with interesting Glances by Rott.rt Jacks, .'1rawing,.