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The annual Creative Generation Excellence
Awards in Visual Art and Design recognise
and promote outstanding achievements by art
students from state and non-state secondary
schools throughout Queensland, including
regional and remote communities. A selection
of 50 works, including paintings, sculptures,
works on paper and new media, was shown.
Organised by Education Queensland and supported by
the Queensland Government.
CREATiVE
GENERATiON
EXCELLENCE AWARDS
IN VISUAL ART AND
DESIGN
20 March – 15 June 2008, GoMA
Diane Pook / St Hilda's School / State of Being 1 / Photograph / Courtesy: The artist
‘Light and Space: Colonial Art and Queensland’
examined how Western visual art in Queensland
began with the work of exploration artists such
as William Westall, who accompanied Matthew
Flinders on his circumnavigation of Australia
from 1801 to 1803. Westall’s prints from the
voyage were shown, along with a number of
new acquisitions. These included lithographs
produced in Brisbane in 1865 by Silvester
Diggles (1817–80), a notable ornithologist and
a key figure in the early cultural life of the city.
The display also included JA Clarke’s Panorama
of Brisbane 1880, on loan from the Queensland
Museum, several significant examples of furniture
and works by English-born R Godfrey Rivers —
regarded as the ‘father figure’ of art
in Queensland.
liGHT ANd SPACE:
COLONIAL ART
AND QUEENSLAND
28 June – 19 October 2008, QAG
FJ Martyn Roberts / Evening (Mt Coot-tha from Dutton Park) 1898 / Oil on canvas /
Purchased 1997 with funds from M.I.M Holdings Limited through the Queensland
Art Gallery Foundation / Collection: Queensland Art Gallery
> 25 000 students
visited 'Andy Warhol'
exhibition
* Mt Coot-tha from Dutton P