Artworks – Moreton Bay and More

Through the Artist’s Eyes.

Art in Queensland before Separation. How does an artist render a completely unfamiliar world – landscapes, animals and people unlike anything the artist has seen before? A European individual, trained in the various schools and traditions of recording the world around them, would interpret northern Australia with a somewhat Euro-centric lens. An artist accompanying aContinue reading “Through the Artist’s Eyes.”

The Man Behind the Watercolour.

The Painting. It is the earliest image of Brisbane that isn’t an architectural drawing. I’ve used it extensively, and it’s beloved by local historians. It’s May 1835, the 3rd to be precise, and a civil servant named Henry Bowerman is standing on the south bank of the Brisbane River, sketching the convict settlement on theContinue reading “The Man Behind the Watercolour.”