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

Carpet snake painting

Palm Island’s origins are in Gubbal or Carpet Snake Dreaming. The painting by James McAvoy, with assistance from other Palm Islanders, Joanne Bulmer, Vina Palmer and HJ Wilson, is one of many tributes to Palm’s history that are displayed on the island yet often overlooked by visiting journalists. Private Collection.

Location

Palm Island, QLD
Australia
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