July 03, 2009

Visit: UQ Art Museum

We went for a great walk over to UQ on Sunday to see the latest show at the UQ Art Museum. Ben Quilty Live and Triumph in the Tropics: Selling Queensland.

The coloured glass windows at Mayne Hall, as well as the exhibitions were a stand out!

Some information on the artist:

Nevil Matthews is a painter who regularly travelled to Sydney in the early 1960s to study with Clement Meadmore. In the late 1960s Matthews tutored in the Department of Architecture at UQ, while from 1969–1972 he was vice-president of the Queensland Branch of the Contemporary Art Society. His coloured glass windows, known as the Joyce windows (after their donor), for Robin Gibson’s Mayne Hall in 1972, are a sympathetic example of what is today legislatively known in Queensland as Art Built-In.

There is a documentary on 8mm that shows the nine months spent working on the window, would love to see it!

http://www.uq.edu.au/maynecentre/e-news/UQArtMuseumE-news10.html


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