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Matt
Foley,
launching this web site at the Regional Galleries Association of
Queensland Brisbane offices on the 24th July 2001 said:
"Blighted
Paradise . . . Australia's north. No part of this continent
remains as unfamiliar, unexplored, misunderstood. And yet, this
terrain is the stuff of our dreams. The exhibition at the Rockhampton
Art Gallery will retrace the steps of the early explorers - Cook,
Kennedy, Flinders, Gregory - viewing this country through their
weary but exhilarated European eyes. It is a mark of the growing
cultural role played by our regional galleries that they are telling
these incredibly important stories. Congratulations to the Rockhampton
Art Gallery for tackling as adventurous an undertaking as that of
the colonial explorers themselves."
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OPENING EVENTS:
11-14 October 2001
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Thursday
11th - Official opening, 4.30pm for 5.00pm
Blighted Paradise will be officially opened by The Honourable
Matt Foley, Minister for the Arts and Minister for Employment, Training
and Youth.
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Friday 12th
- Boat trip to Port Clinton, 8.00am-5.00pm.
Depart Rosslyn Bay at 8.00am on board the Reefcat. Travel in the
wake of Matthew Flinders and locate the site that inspired William
Westall's painting "View of Port Bowen". This stretch of
coastline is part of the Shoalwater Bay Military Training Area and
Rockhampton Art Gallery has negotiated the rare privilege of visiting
this beautiful area.
Cost $125.00 includes lunch and exhibition catalogue.
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Saturday
13th - Guest lectures, 1.00pm-5.00pm
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The heritage
of Tropical Australia: regional accommodations. Emeritus
Professor C. C. Macknight, formerly at the Australian National
University and recently retired as Professor of Humanities at
University of Tasmania in Launceston, did pioneering research
on the history of northern Australia. His major work, The
voyage to Marenge': Macassan trepangers in northern Australia
is the classic study of that industry. He will explore some
general themes on the history of northern Australia.
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Travelling
north: artists' and explorers' views on their journeys north.
Martin Terry, Curator of Exploration at the National Maritime
Museum, Sydney, will give an illustrated presentation on the
work of William Westall, P.P. King, Owen Stanley and others,
whose vision of Australia was so different from that of artists
painting in the south. He is the author of Maritime Painting
in Early Australia, published by Miegunyah Press.
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Ellis
Rowan: a flower-hunter in Queensland. Dr Judith McKay, Curator
of Applied Arts at the Queensland Museum, Brisbane will give
an illustrated talk on the six northern collecting trips of
the noted flower-painter and adventurer Marian Ellis Rowan,
between 1887 to 1913. Dr McKay has undertaken research on many
aspects of Queensland's cultural heritage. She takes up a Smithsonian
Fellowship early next year.
Cost $12.00 includes all lectures, afternoon tea and exhibition
entry
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Sunday 14th
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Exhibition
floorwalk, 1.00pm - 2.00pm Exhibition Curator and Gallery Director,
Lisa Loader will conduct a floorwalk through Blighted Paradise.
Cost - Floorwalk is included with admission to the exhibition.
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Children's
activity, 1.00pm - 3.00pm
Bush ABC (Acacia, Banksia, Callistemon …); create a book
to take home. This hands-on activity for children, with
a special botanical theme, will be conducted by artist/gardener
Dieter Irving. Austrian by birth, Dieter received his art training
in Mannheim before becoming a practising artist and art teacher.
He came to Australia and settled in Yeppoon with his family
in the 1980s. He has received grants to paint the Shoalwater
Bay area and has an abiding interest in depicting and conserving
the natural environment. Dieter is responsible for the native
planting at Rockhampton Heritage Village.
Cost - $5.00/person
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Bookings
for all events are essential and can be made by contacting the Rockhampton
Art Gallery on (07) 4936 8248.
Blighted
Paradise: Colonial Visions of Northern Australia (12
October - 25 November)
General Admission Prices:
Adult:
$7
Concession: $5
Student: $3
Family: $20
Opening Hours:
Monday - Friday: 10am - 4pm
Saturday/Sunday/Public Holidays: 11am - 4pm
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