Australian Collection Re imagined - with Cypriots in their midst !

Today I went to the opening of the new Collection of Australian Art at the Gallery of Queensland. A huge gallery beautifully laid out and thought out, with magnificent works of Australian artists, starting from  Indigenous groups, to colonial days and after, right up to more recent contemporary art. 

In amongst two hundred exquisite items are two Cypriots. I am particularly proud. I noticed the first some months ago in the gallery and wrote about him - a work by William Dobbell of a Cypriot waiter in London done in the 1940s. For those of you who read the blog you may remember him. He takes pride of place on one of the walls by an entrance, looking down at us with his piercing eyes and vibrant blue shirt. 

Right next to him is "Bad Dad" by the amazing Michael Zavros, a lively and likeable Cypriot Australian who is producing work of such calibre and talent that he has already taken his place in amongst the great Australian Painters. His work Bad Dad was recently acquired by the Gallery. As he describes it "he has cast himself in the role of Narcissus in a contemporary evocation of the ancient Greek Myth, and as something of a cautionary tale."

Forgive me for concentrating on these two art works when there is so much more - but these are links  to my Cypriot Australian life that I cherish and want to share.