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

New role ( .awway l( :.-·, fro1111 the far111 The new Mlnlater for Sport, Mr Tony Elli– ott, with his wife, Sally, and she-month• old dauaftter, Claire. ' 1 ,,, COL KLEINSCHMIDT r ..,._ ..,o ·-=------------------------ o,.,,,.~,_,11M4,U41E\i,\eit4,i Finance is often an Important concern of those in ---------------~-~---, charge of private and public art collections on !he Dari- ~ ~ lngDowns. Thus, it is interesting to consider present methods employed by the Queensland Arl Gallery to at• Q ~ tract donors and funds. / Finance for recently acquired works there comes from ~~- ,.., a government grant and from money provided by the ,., Queensland Arl Gallery Foundation - a body whose main object Is 10 raise finance 10 assisl the trustees 10 improve the Art Gallery's collection so that ii will be worthy of the new riverside gallery planned to be open- ed in 1984. The Art Gallery Society gives funds lhrough this foundation. For example, an Aubusson tapestry by Sonia Delaunay-Terk, "Syncopee," was purchased this year in this way. The Utah Foundation also provides funds through this foundation. Such assistance resulted in the purchase during 1980 of a late rifteenth century Netherlandish panel painting entitled "Virgin and Child with St James the Pilgrim, St Catherine, 1he Donor, and St Peler." The Queensland Art Gallery also benefits from giflS made under the Australian Government 's " Taxn1ion Jn• centives for the Arts Scheme" which is useful lor in• dividual donors. Another method, this time to expnnd the gallery's crall holdings, operates with the assistance ol the Crarts Board or the Australia Council. Some 570,000 is com• mit1cd o,·er the next two years 10 purchase contcm• porary Australian craft in the areas ol clay, fabric/ fibre and jewellery/ metal. This purchasing program will culminate in n survey exhibition ol con1emporary Australian crall during the Commonwealth Games in 19~2. A total al 115 works (prints, drnwings, sculpture, crnllS and paintings) was purchased or donated to the Queensland Gallery during the lasl 12 monlhs. Artists include such famous names as the Frenchmen, Odil11n Redon, Georges Roualt, Pierre Dannard, J\faurice Denis, and Camille Pissarro; the paniard, Picasso; the British sculptor Nicholas Pope; the German Kathe Kollwitz; and the Yugoslav naive, Dura Jancic, whose painting, "The Thinker" pictured in this column on October 29, last, was recenlly purchased. Meanwhile, back at the ranch, National Party whiz kid, Jannion Anthony Elliott, MLA, hod cooled his heels in the sorghum patch. The ranch, a 400-odd hectare s1>read aL Jon– daryan, plum In the heart or his Cunningham electorate, Is Lhe "safeL)' valve" for the Slale 001•– crnment's new Minister !or SporL - and Tour• Ism, National Parks - and Arts, also. A walk through lhc cultlvaUon Is his release from the 11ressures of the big smoke, The Lrauma or those hectic weeks leading u11 Lo Lhe elecl101,s and his a11polnlmcnt to cablneL well and truly had sub• sided. Billy boiling 'i'he new mlnlsler, bet– ter known to his col• legues as Tony, was In riding boots and shorts mowlnr the lawn be· •,wern the central home i.r.~ a cluster or historic cottages which mate up Jondaryan Homestead, His wife, Sally, a pret• Ly, eloquent country girl from Wellington In the central west or New South Wales, was bollln1 H was a typlcoI mas-New Yew the bush, exc p "'ore no hnng'O\'C Bolh Mr Elli, his wire are only ate social drlnkr• Lher smoke. "We spend six of the year In and the other sin at home on the Ly," he .said. "We are In t least once a week, always rreat lo here. "IL'a my aaret. Fifteen m1nu, through the cul relieves all the 11 At 36, Mr El somewhat a11 amon1 his part) · or veteran cabin laters. The Nation ty's a1·erap age · net la 116. Meteor It has been a , rise for the you, who not so long roughing It In U, classing 1heda or back to gain expe He has been u, ber for Cunning alx years. and h whelmln1Iy • three election ea, he has fought. His no-nonsens. cnl attitude (he kisses babies exc six-month-old du Claire) has we,. plaudits from his So much ao, To llott has become Queensla-nd"a yo ever cabinet mini. And It could leaders have wisely In appolnLr Lo the $40,000-JllUb Job. • Co11tl11ued Page 31