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

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TRANSPARENT: Queensland watercolourists

BIO: Douglas Annand

BIO: Edwin Bode

BIO: Vincent Brown

BIO: William Bustard

BIO: John Campbell

BIO: Robert Campbell

BIO: Margaret Cilento

BIO: Edward Colclough

BIO: Oscar Friström

BIO: CG Gibbs

BIO: Bessie Gibson

BIO: WG Grant

BIO: Douglas Green

BIO: JJ Hilder

BIO: CGS Hirst

BIO: Percy Stanhope Hobday

BIO: Laurence Hope

BIO: Isaac Walter Jenner

BIO: Vida Lahey

BIO: Travis Ian McKie

BIO: Kenneth Macqueen

BIO: Conrad Martens

BIO: Shirley Miller

BIO: Robyn Mountcastle

BIO: Josephine Müntz-Adams

BIO: Harriet Jane Neville-Rolfe

BIO: George Seymour Owen

BIO: Roy Parkinson

BIO: Lilian Pedersen

BIO: Jack Pickup

BIO: Thomas Pilgrim

BIO: FW Potts

BIO: Patricia Prentice

BIO: Robert S Rayment

BIO: R Godfrey Rivers

BIO: FJ Martyn Roberts

BIO: Joy Roggenkamp

BIO: Joe Rootsey

BIO: Paula Rosenstengel

BIO: Penny Sharpe

BIO: Vincent Sheldon

BIO: Frank Sherrin

BIO: Will Smith

BIO: Henri Tebbitt

BIO: FW Whitehouse

BIO: James Wieneke

BIO: LWK Wirth

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