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TRANSPARENT: Queensland watercolourists

‘Transparent: Watercolour in Queensland 1850s–1980s’ — a 2014 exhibition held at QAG — demonstrated the enduring appeal of watercolour as a medium with 150 works from the Gallery's Collection. Used by early settlers to depict the landscape, by later artists to evoke the growing city of Brisbane and by wartime artists to record daily activities, watercolour is portable and adaptable, perfect for capturing quick impressions. Learn more about the artists of ‘Transparent’ below.

Feature image: Margaret Cilento / Australia QLD/VIC 1923–2006 / House at Annerley Junction 1951 / Gouache on paper / © Margaret Cilento Estate

BIO: Douglas Annand

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BIO: Edwin Bode

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BIO: Vincent Brown

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A detail view of an oil painting depicting Brisbane city in the 1930s.

BIO: William Bustard

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BIO: John Campbell

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BIO: Robert Campbell

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BIO: Margaret Cilento

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BIO: Edward Colclough

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BIO: Oscar Friström

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BIO: CG Gibbs

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BIO: Bessie Gibson

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BIO: WG Grant

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BIO: Douglas Green

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BIO: JJ Hilder

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BIO: CGS Hirst

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BIO: Percy Stanhope Hobday

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BIO: Laurence Hope

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BIO: Isaac Walter Jenner

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BIO: Vida Lahey

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BIO: Travis Ian McKie

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BIO: Kenneth Macqueen

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BIO: Conrad Martens

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BIO: Shirley Miller

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BIO: Robyn Mountcastle

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BIO: Josephine Müntz-Adams

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BIO: Harriet Jane Neville-Rolfe

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BIO: George Seymour Owen

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BIO: Roy Parkinson

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BIO: Lilian Pedersen

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BIO: Jack Pickup

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BIO: Thomas Pilgrim

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BIO: FW Potts

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BIO: Patricia Prentice

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BIO: Robert S Rayment

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A detail view of an oil painting in which a trio of people in Edwardian dress sit under a jacaranda tree in full bloom.

BIO: R Godfrey Rivers

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BIO: FJ Martyn Roberts

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BIO: Joy Roggenkamp

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BIO: Joe Rootsey

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BIO: Paula Rosenstengel

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BIO: Penny Sharpe

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BIO: Vincent Sheldon

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BIO: Frank Sherrin

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BIO: Will Smith

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BIO: Henri Tebbitt

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BIO: FW Whitehouse

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BIO: James Wieneke

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BIO: LWK Wirth

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Kenneth Macqueen / Australia NSW 1897 - 1960 / Harvesting scene (detail) c.1956 / Watercolour over pencil on wove paper / Purchased 1956 / Collection: QAGOMA / © QAGOMA / A watercolour landscape depicting rolling fields in shades of green and yellow, with hills in the background shadowed by clouds.

‘Watercolour in Queensland’

Mar 2014 - Jul 2014

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Watercolour in Queensland 1850s–1980s

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Kenneth Macqueen / Australia NSW 1897 - 1960 / Harvesting scene (detail) c.1956 / Watercolour over pencil on wove paper / Purchased 1956 / Collection: QAGOMA / © QAGOMA / A watercolour landscape depicting rolling fields in shades of green and yellow, with hills in the background shadowed by clouds.

‘Watercolour in Queensland’

Mar 2014 - Jul 2014

A detail view of an oil painting depicting Brisbane city in the 1930s.

BRISBANE IN PICTURES

STORIES: Streets of your town

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