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

Sue Barrow's • • • sens1t1v1ty ga med a Barhc\or or /\rt <lr – µrcc at. the c amberwcll School or ArL. E11{:l!Sh t rends which were rt· fleeted in the exhibition "Image and Idea··. on show nL the gnl\cry from Britain earlier thi• yenr CERAMICS by Brisbane craftswoman Sue Barrow are the first purchases to be made by the Queens– land Art Gallery under Its major crafts acquisition program. Announcement or the pur– chase was macle ycstcrdny by the gallery's \'Ice-president or trustees. Dr Norman Behan. Assisted by the Crafts of the Australia Council, the ~allery will spend up to S70,000 for crafts over the next two years. a of The program wlll culminate in a major exhibition titled "Survey or Contempornry Aus- art PRINTS a r e constantly bringing the art or other countries closer to 118 and taking the work of our best printmakers. overseas. The exhibition of "Contempo– rary B w e d Is h printmakers, 1979." nt the Queensland Art Gallery, Ann Street, Is the re– sult ol an Austrnllan-Swedlsh exchange of exhibitions ar– ranged by the Print council of Australia. Cwlth Visual Art., Board a.nd other assistance) and the Swedish Association of Printmakers. Brit Molin. Initiator of the exchanie during an Australian visit, Is one or 17 Swedish print– makers In this small exhibition of 40 ,prints. Among the three etchings she has cont.rlbuted. her colorful "Blue Coral" prob– ably wus Inspired by her Aus– tralian stay. Not surprising !or a country which produce<I the Inter– nationally famous etcher An– ders Zorn 11860-1020), etchings pre do m I n a. t e In this show. Among the boldest In execution arc Lhe mechanical horses of Hans Hamngren 1md the m011t classic. both In style and sub• Ject mntter. are the Brunhll· dean flirurcs of Goran Brunlus The sinking of Venice. for a long lime the concern or artists and urLi lovers, hns been gl\'en both hun:ol'OUS 1incl vaguely slnLster expression In t he lithographs ol Oosta Glerow. Notcwort..hY ln lh1~ S9. 1 edlsh exhibition. as opposed to A11s– tralla11 sh ows. ls t11c small re\)• rescntnt.lon gh·cn to screen \)Tints. Therf' are 011\y two \'ery ,,ell resolvr<I works by Lennart Rodhe In n sho11· covering all kinds or gruph lc art. At the Pnddln~Lon Onllcry, Lat robe Ten-uce, Shirley Lnm– bt~rt, Wll!-i 11, n 110. Lulglc vein when she ~howect wt u. ccrnmlc block palm111g sent to her by 80-ye•r-old JiatLon Beck, a pot– ter and long-Ume family friend. He also Is the husbnnd or Lucy Doyd, n member of the famou• Boyd clan whose fnmlly story will he t.old on ABC-TV In Oc• Lober. - PIIYU,IS woou:nc·K "COURIER MAIL" .- 1 ) ii 1' "•.- '! ~ L-· I "- • t.rn.lian Crnlt!i<i" 10 br held 111 the nrw Q11ccn:.!a11cl :\rt Ga l– ler\' on u,., ,oulh bnnk of the Brisbane H.l\'Cl' in September. 1982. nl the time of the Cum- 111onwealtl1 Ol1n1cs. i\ls Barrow 11ns J11~l 1.:rn11- plctcd her [irs i11dl\ldt1UI exlll· b1t \on 'at the PollCl'S' Gnl\cr)' Ill Spring Hill. A former sl11dent 11t the I, 1- vin Gro\'c Tc•,chcrs· Collc!-!c, she studied at the J ohn Cass School of Art. In London for I2 months In 1976. in I07D she \Vl1llr In Lunclon. Ms Barrow wo1·l-:cd for some u11w al 'l ml\n 41 0. ~ well known :1n\srn· co111• 111llllh\', She nlbO work •et un tihe "Cernrnle Hc\'icw" 1nr I lw CrafLs Counc1I, and later went. 10 San Francisco. There she worltcd \\ Ith I\OlCd t\1ncrlcan ccra.nH~l S •oU, Clll.llll· bcrlalll. whom :;he suys hos hnd a :-.1sniflcnnL influence on her work. Co•ordinator And ~elector for ccranucs for the Quecnslnnct Art Gnllcrl'. ~lr Jeff Shaw. snld ycs– tcrdo.y· i'•ts Barrow's pieces were nn interesting blend ul current rt for hospitals Mr Shaw said .M s Barrow waf. iln int,cllccLuatl~' scnsit l\'C ~ml \'Cry capable p tlcr. with ht'r work . being cs.prcssi\'C rather tlnm funetionnl. 'T'his wus tn· cliratlve of a. dci•cloping trcnct. The 1982 survey or contcmpo• rnrl' AusLrullan crafts will fea– ture thrCe 1nal.n crnfL nrcns: ch1y, labric-flhrc and metal-Jewellery. Crn ftsmcn thronghout Austrnllit hn\'C been 11wlted to submlL works for consideration, En· q111rics should be directed lo the Queensland Art Gallery and 111,Hkcd ··cralts exhibition." Visitors. patient., nnd stuff at Queen Elizabeth .II and Rellcllile hospltnls wlll soon \111\'e .Jcir di.1·s brightened bf orighml pnlntln~s 0 11 the wulls. · 'fJ1e Health Minister, Sir William 1,nox. today will accept pnintin~s from the Quecnslnnd Art Oal– lery·s J!tl ,i.md F.~Lnte for hnngln~ In the two hosp\- . tui: . yr, WNt!::"" Sir \ \lilliam sulrl Yt'SlCrdn \' llw lnnn or thr. pninttn::rs wns pnrti of n pnlicy to plnce art works where t.her could he iiecn hy 111ost. peoµlc. One cnrl)' ln•;L\g:1tor wns Ihe late Arthur Rich– ards former assistant cctilor-ln-chicf or The c au– J'ier-Mull. Mr Richards collri:ted about GO pnrntlngs which formed the nucleus of R <•ollcctlon now hanging in the Queensland Radium InstiLute. - THE COURIER-MAIL Death of a leading docto Prominent Queensland doctor, Sir Ellis Murphy, 85, died In Brisbane on Sunday after a brief Ill· ness. Sir Ellis wu knighted In 1963 for eminent ser– v i c e s to Queensland med icine. He was a !ormer Queensland C a r d I a c Board chairman and t-he Queensland d I v I• Ion chairman or the Red Cross. He truatee of the Queens– land Art Gallery a.nd took part In the planning for the new gallery now under construction on the 110uth bank of the Bris– bane River. He leaves 11, widow Ladiy Ellis, a son, and two da.ughters. A Requiem Me.ss will be held at St Cecilia'• Church, Hamllton at 3 p.m. today followed by a funeral to Nudgee ceme• tery. THE COURIER-MAIL TUESDAY, JULY 22, 1980