Arts

Why wildlife art always has the WOW factor

A LITTLE over 250 years ago, British botanist Joseph Banks asked the celebrated artist George Stubbs to paint a strange animal he’d collected on Lt James Cook’s 1768-1771 voyage of discovery in HMS Endeavour.

Guest Writer

02 Apr 2025

Arts

Winning Scenic Rim artists with big ideas

SEVEN Scenic Rim artists and arts groups have been awarded a total of $52,600 in grant funding to further their careers or to help develop arts projects.

Staff Writers

05 Feb 2025

Arts

Colour in our lives - Felicity Smith

EVERY one of us with the gift of sight is affected by colour.

Guest Writer

18 Dec 2024

Arts

Learning to love Rothko - by Felicity Smith

THE development of a broad palate enriches our cultural experience and allows us to form a solid foundation, gaining a deeper understanding for and enjoyment of a wide variety of art works.

Guest Writer

11 Dec 2024

Arts

Rebel, revolt, refuse and reform - by Felicity Smith

FOR those who follow the Gregorian calendar - and not all nations do - the end of the year is drawing near offering us a moment to consider some of the art movements, sculptors, painters and individual works that have helped shape Western art, and which have appeared in this column.

Guest Writer

27 Nov 2024

Arts

Ex-QT journo’s book debunks First Fleet myths

THE story of the First Fleet is one of courage, tragedy and of overcoming insurmountable odds.

Rob Mellett

19 Nov 2024

Arts

Vermeer and the Dutch Golden Age - Felicity Smith

DUTCH painter Johannes Vermeer lived and worked in the city of Delft where he worked primarily as an art dealer, a business he had inherited from his father in 1652, when he was 20-years-old.

Guest Writer

13 Nov 2024

Fassifern Guardian

Family fights for new art precinct on mountain

SUPPORTERS of an arts precinct on Tamborine Mountain are still hopeful they’ll find a way to buy land currently owned by Scenic Rim Regional Council.

Lara Hart

06 Nov 2024

Arts

Art of the Ancients - Felicity Smith

WE HUMANS are social creatures and gathering around the campfire, sharing food, listening to stories, enjoying music and dancing remains one of our most pleasurable experiences.

Guest Writer

06 Nov 2024

Arts

Rodin: a man at the crossroads - Felicity Smith

AS THE father of modern sculpture, the aptly named Auguste Rodin broke away from the classical tradition and the romanticised figurative works that had dominated the art scene from the Neoclassical period which had been in turn inspired by the works of Ancient Greeks, those masters of idealised human form.

Guest Writer

30 Oct 2024

Arts

Becoming Picasso - Felicity Smith

PROLIFIC and long-lived, Pablo Picasso is one of the Western world’s most celebrated artists.

Guest Writer

23 Oct 2024

Arts

Where a willow grows - Felicity Smith

OPHELIA, a character from William Shakespeare’s play ‘Hamlet’ met a watery end and provided the Pre-Raphaelite English painter John Everett Millais with the subject matter for his painting of the grief-stricken maiden singing to herself as she floats down the river.

Guest Writer

16 Oct 2024

Arts

A fragrant work of a master painter

A BARE purple wall and the scent of rhododendrons determined the fate of one of Australia’s most beautiful still life paintings now on display at the Boonah Art Gallery.

Guest Writer

09 Oct 2024

Arts

Magritte: a mind liberated - Felicity Smith

SURREALISM imagines alternative realities, juxtaposes the imagined world with the real, the irrational with the rational.

Guest Writer

09 Oct 2024

Arts

Decorum, propriety and taste, the Portrait of Madame X - Felicity Smith

NEITHER chaste nor innocent, indecent or inappropriate, John Singer Sargent’s scandalous portrait of the society beauty Virginie Gautreau, caused a stir when it was exhibited in Paris at the Salon of 1884.

Guest Writer

02 Oct 2024

Arts

The allure of ‘Flaming June’ - Felicity Smith

‘ART for Art’s Sake’ was the mantra of the Aesthetic Art Movement of the 1880s.

Guest Writer

25 Sep 2024

Arts

Boonah Arts Festival 2024 winners list

Mayor Tom Sharp presented the Youth-High School Writing Award to winner, Anna Thompson at the awards night. Photos: LARA HART

Staff Writers

18 Sep 2024

Arts

The Rise and Rise of Artistic Anatomy - Felicity Smith

THERE is so much to discover in a work of art, it can be hard to know where to start.

Guest Writer

18 Sep 2024

Arts

Get Your Arts Into Gear - 4th September, 2024

The Ipswich Little Theatre Company is bringing to the stage an adaption of the Paramount Pictures film ‘Clue’, written by Jonathan Lynn and the board game from Hasbro Inc written by Sandy Rustin

Guest Writer

04 Sep 2024