War exhibit in region’s art gallery

THE Toowoomba Regional Art Gallery will present an exhibition responding to 100year-old photographs of Australia’s Anzac history.

The photographs taken by official war photographer Captain Frank Hurley have inspired Landscape and Memory: Frank Hurley and a Nation Imagined, on display from August 4 until early September.

The exhibition has provided eight artists with the opportunity to re-imagine World War I through a contemporary lens.

The exhibition draws together the educational and curatorial expertise of University of Southern Queensland academics Dr Martin Kerby and Associate Professor Janet McDonald.

Dr Kerby said Capt Hurley’s photographs of the war-torn landscape of the Western Front and the Middle East were hauntingly beautiful.

“The photographs taken by Hurley provide an appropriate starting point for a ‘reimagining’ by the artists in this exhibition because they transcend the context in which they were created,” he said.

The exhibition will feature a free curator’s talk on Sunday, August 5 from 1.30pm.

You can RSVP to the gallery on 4688 6652 or art@tr.qld.gov.au.