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

Courier Mail Wednesday Apri l 16, 1Sf80 Queenslan~ Art Gallery •.11, Floor. M1.M Building .• 1tll /<nn S1rPrt. Brisbane 4000 lPlr•pt1nne (07) 229 2138 . . The Andrew and LIiian Pedersen Memorial Prizes for- Printmaking and small Sculpture 1980. Official Opening and announcement of Prize- . winners Thursday 17 April at 1.00 pm. An extensive exhibition ol prints and sculptures featuring some ol Australia's most promising artists and their most recent work. On display until 11 May 1980. lnL Prm Cllllap lpa11 UelbouT!, Vlctorll From 11 COUIIEI MAIL" 23 APR.19~n 1/ . Gallery • • act1v1ty - ·hots up TlU!RE l~'nced for thing • to be so quiet at the Queens– hmd Art Gallery after tht cloHe or Lhe Thylilien e:ii:- · hlbltlon: Jn addltlo~ 0 10 a handsome se– leclton of Au&lrallan conLempo– rury art from Uie sallery·• own collecLlon, &here are now Lhe An– drew and Lllllllll Peder&en Me– m or I a I Exhlb1Lton•, each of Which has drawn a b'TUtltylnK nurnl>flr or ~ntmnts, 50me ut the best names Included. As to the prt,., for 111t1all sculp– ture, •Wllrded to an unknown youns irr...iuaw from the Seven Hill• College of ArL. Wendy Moss, the decision could n11L ha,•e been an H SY one, as sculpLurea by •uch re1>uted artL,t..s as Michael KILchln&, Max l,)'le, Jock CluL– t er b,u ck, Cllre Munay-WhlLe, :Rosalie Gascoigne and David Wllaon had been iubmlt~d. Kitchin&'! "Enerijy : Coal" 11 parllcululy strollg and lnter– etl!Anl, and,CluLterlluok'i ljntllled brdnae and aleel work Ill lively, etrectlve and rather beautiful. Nevenhellu, ,Wendy, In creat- or a 1tepped perspex pyramid In the colors of the nLlnbow and enclo1ln1 a levlLa~d human fl&_. ure, hu ir!ven eX1>llca plastic form lo a not ao widely under– •tood Eaat.am phlloso1lhy. lL r.cr • Llllnly la 11n eye and mind-catch• inl piece, One of I.ha lnten11tln1 entrant.a II\ Lhe aman ac:ulpture prize, An– thony Jonea, or. Perth, •l•o has a one-man exhibition 1otn1 at Victor Mace. Jonet' amall bronzes, cast by himself, an aLran~ety movln11. Hl!i main obsession IS with lli1ht : ni•n aud bird, or man and llyln11 machine, merge lnLo one: In one cue, n1an Ls cruclfit'd across the WlllKS- Otten a wheel forms the bUls or his lcona, or to~nu as he c1<,1s h&A sculptures. Sometime& the meonlng ta more elusive, but one can sense .l deJJlh or ooncern,. The sm1tU •cale Ja Just right, and cl0&e in• spt.'cLlon rewardln11, In the 1>rtntmakl11i rom– peLILlon, ~oy Lev1rk, also a IILtle– known ttrlL'it, WllS KlVen a chance by awarding her the pm.e •1alnaL tJie strong compeULion or· " nurnMr or well established and ht11hly exl)l!rtenced 1mntmakers. 11.s • Mu Miller. F'ron,. Kempf, ,luck ClutLerbuck, M11ry Mac- 11111•i,n, Bitill lfodle)', Bruno Letl, 1here ts a gorweow hCrecnprmt. •however printed ex11ertly by Bnrbara< Coburn I of l.eoch-Jones, to name a (ew I supµosr . the L<c~k nf the Judge. Bri•n Hat.eh had nOL been envl•ble. Mn MIiler·• color etch.Inc "Noh" In the prtnL cornpelltlon llnlu up with his presenL exblbt• lion ot recent woru on paper at Ray Huahel. - DR. GIRTRVDE L,\NGl:S