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Sue Smith was the art critic
at The Courier-Mail, Brisbane from 1990 and Senior Art Critic from1999
to 2002, and is a director of Grafico (Qld) Pty Ltd, arts and curatorial consultants.
Sue holds the degrees of Bachelor of Arts from the University of Queensland,
Brisbane, and Master of Arts from the Courtauld Institute of Art, University
of London. She was Curator of Prints, Drawings and Photographs at the Queensland
Art Gallery, Brisbane, where she was a staff member from 1972 to 1977 and 1981
to 1987. From 1987 to 1989 she lived and worked in England, where she was Australian
art consultant at Christie’s, London. Sue has lectured widely and written
for books, catalogues and magazines, and has organised numerous exhibitions,
including the touring surveys ‘Queensland Pictorialist Photography 1920–1950’
1984 and ‘Journeys North’ 1988. For North of Capricorn: The Art
of Ray Crooke, and the exhibition which it accompanies, she initiated the
project, selected, researched and catalogued the art works, and provided biographical
notes, list of exhibitions and bibliography, and additional texts.
For the "Lloyd Rees : coming home" exhibition for The Rockhampton
Art Gallery, Sue interviewed the Rees family, and wrote the catelogue text.
Sue curated an Australian Landscape exhibition "Landscape as a Metephor"
for the Perc Tucker Regional Gallery, Townsville, and compiled a bibliography
for "Blighted Paradise: Colonial
Visions of Northern Australia".
Sue is currently Manager, Art Services and Director of the Rockhampton Art Gallery,
Rockhampton City Council, Queensland, Australia.
James Gleeson is a distinguished Australian artist. His paintings and drawings have been widely exhibited in solo exhibitions and in the National Gallery of Australia touring exhibition ‘Surrealism: Revolution by Night’ 1993, and are represented in major public and private collections in Australia. He has only concentrated fully on his painting since the 1980s, and has been variously a writer, poet, critic, curator and teacher. He was art critic at the Sun, Sydney, from 1949 to 1972 and at the Sun-Herald, Sydney, from 1962 to 1972. His books include William Dobell 1964; Colonial Painters 1788–1880, Impressionist Painters 1881–1930, Modern Painters 1931–1970, in 1971; Robert Klippel 1983; The Drawings of William Dobell in the Australian National Gallery 1992; and Selected Poems 1993. His awards include Member of the Order of Australia 1975 and Officer of the Order of Australia 1990.
The Perc Tucker Regional Gallery opened in 1981 as an initiative of the Townsville City Council, and is a major focus for the visual arts in north Queensland, Australia. More than 500 000 people have visited the gallery and it has hosted over 400 exhibitions of Australian and international art.
The Gallery’s Townsville-based and touring exhibitions, publications and programs have done much to provide north Queensland with an internationally recognised cultural profile. The Gallery supports an extensive education program and organises forums, workshops and seminars addressing issues and themes of interest in contemporary artistic practice. Major exhibitions and accompanying books include: Luk Luk Gen! Look Again!: Contemporary Art from Papua New Guinea 1990, which toured Australia, New Zealand and New Caledonia; Artist in the Tropics 1991, which documented 200 years of art in north Queensland; and Anneke Silver: 30 Years in North Queensland 1995.
Reflecting its geographic setting, the Gallery collects art embracing the theme of ‘The Tropics’. The strongest areas of the collection are contemporary Australian paintings, prints and ceramics. In the future, the Gallery hopes to increase its holdings of historical north Queensland and contemporary Melanesian art.
