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Read • 30 minutes or 3 hours: Here’s the best way to spend your time on a visit to QAGOMA
If you’re a local or visiting Brisbane, whether you have a spare 30 minutes to drop in for a dose of art at either … -
Read • Family wash day: Once a common sight
Monday morning helped launch Frances Vida Lahey‘s (1882–1968) career when the painting of two young women doing the family wash — one at the … -
Read • Go back in time to a corner of Brisbane
In 1914, Melbourne-born artist Charles H Lancaster (1886–1959) moved to Brisbane to manage the stained-glass department at RS Exton and Co., where … -
Read • Go back in time to a sunny Winters day in Brisbane
In Brisbane’s Wintry sunshine, Vida Lahey (26 August 1882-1968) has captured the Albert Street Methodist Church and the Central Methodist Mission’s Albert … -
Read • Go back in time to a sultry Queensland afternoon
Throughout the 1920s and 30s Queensland artists painted outdoors, their subject matter ranged widely from the beach, the bush, to the city. Vida Lahey was … -
Read • Go back in time before Brisbane’s Grey Street Bridge
Brisbane is known as the ‘River City’ and a great way to get around is to jump aboard one of the river cruises or CityCat … -
Read • Vida Lahey: Queensland’s art advocate
In 2022 as we celebrate 40 years of the Queensland Art Gallery at South Bank, it is fitting to note that when the new building … -
Read • The Golden Book of Gifts
Once upon a time… there was a Golden Book of Gifts… Imagine our surprise when The Wolfsonian–Florida International University Library in Miami Beach, Florida … -
Read • Vida Lahey: Known for her distinctive flower studies
Of all the works by (Frances) Vida Lahey (1882-1968), she is best known for her depiction of the weekly wash-day, Monday morning 1912 … -
Read • National Wattle Day: A celebration of a floral emblem
In 1988, the year of Australia’s bicentenary, the Golden Wattle (Acacia pycnantha) was officially gazetted as Australia’s national floral emblem, enjoying a popular … -
Read • Go back in time to a morning on the Brisbane river
The work by Vida Lahey (1882-1968), one of Queensland’s best loved artists is widely admired for her watercolour floral studies, however in Morning … -
Read • The humanness of objects
Renowned Queensland still-life painter John Honeywill is the first artist in the Gallery’s new Open Studio initiative at the Queensland Art Gallery. We …