Owl Creek II, 1979-80

Lawrence Daws, Owl Creek II, 1979-80. Oil on composition board. Collection: Queensland Art Gallery

Location

Glasshouse Mountains, QLD
Australia
26° 54' 50.7276" S, 152° 55' 17.868" E

Crookneck 1992

Graeme Inson, Crookneck 1992. 20 x 24cm. Private collection. Courtesy Town Galleries, Brisbane

Location

Glasshouse Mountains, QLD
Australia
26° 54' 50.7276" S, 152° 55' 17.868" E

Glasshouse Mountains 1952

Charles Bush, Glasshouse Mountains 1952. Oil on composition board, 73 x 114cm. Collection: Queensland Art Gallery

Location

Glasshouse Mountains, QLD
Australia
26° 54' 50.7276" S, 152° 55' 17.868" E

Mt Coonowrin c1889

George Seymour Owen, Mt Coonowrin c1889. Watercolour over pencil on paper, 33.8 x 25.7cm. Collection: Queensland Art Gallery

Location

Glasshouse Mountains, QLD
Australia
26° 54' 50.7276" S, 152° 55' 17.868" E

[Glass House Mountains], 1853

Thomas Harford, [Glass House Mountains], 1853. Drawing, ink, 16.1 x 24.6 cm. Rex Nan Kivell Collection NK6860/D, National Library of Australia

Location

Glasshouse Mountains, QLD
Australia
26° 54' 50.7276" S, 152° 55' 17.868" E

Glasshouse Mountains III, 1971

Glasshouse Mountains, QLD
Australia
26° 54' 50.7276" S, 152° 55' 17.868" E
1 January 1971
27 September 2012
27 September 2012

Location

Glasshouse Mountains, QLD
Australia
26° 54' 50.7276" S, 152° 55' 17.868" E

Collection: Queensland Art Gallery

Fred Williams, Glasshouse Mountains III, 1971, Gouache on paper, 55.5. x 76.5cm. Collection: Queensland Art Gallery

 

Glasshouse Mountains from the Nth. boat passage, 29 July 1853

Henry Douglas Scott-Montagu, Glasshouse Mountains from the Nth. boat passage, 29 July 1853. Watercolour on paper. Collection: John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland

 

The striking, weathered volcanic plugs of the Glasshouse Mountains, to the north of Brisbane, have long dominated the cultural landscape of south-eastern Queensland.

Hugh Sawrey’s mud map of outback travels, 1993

QLD
Australia
1 January 1993
17 June 2011
17 June 2011

Location

QLD
Australia
Brisbane
University of Queensland Press

Collection of the University of Queensland Library

Hugh Sawrey’s mud map of outback travels, 1993. The Rockhampton born writer and journalist Lawrie Kavanagh met Hugh Sawrey at an art exhibition in the back bar of the Royal Hotel, Brisbane, in 1963. The two would later form a bond and travel extensively throughout Queensland and its remote places ‘beyond the glow of the city lights.’ This map appeared in Kavanagh and Sawrey’s record of their travels Outback (1993). Signed by Sawrey, the map features a rough sketch of a stockman which formed a salient motif in Sawrey’s imagined Queensland. Lawrie Kavanagh and Hugh Sawrey, Outback, Brisbane, University of Queensland Press, 1993

In Adventure in watercolour: an artist’s story (1948), Queensland painter Kenneth Macqueen (1897-1960) called for art that walked ‘steadily and simply and, by its very truth to the environ

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