Mervyn Moriarty Landscape Exhibition at 1 William St

ART
QRAA
The Mervyn Moriarty
Landscape Exhibition
26 JUNE - 28 JULY
1 William St, Brisbane

The Mervyn Moriarty Landscape Award
The Mervyn Moriarty Landscape Award is an award category of
Flying Arts Alliance’s Queensland Regional Art Awards (QRAA) and is named
in honour of its founder Mervyn Moriarty OAM.
The QRAA are Flying Arts’ signature annual art awards established in 2011, open
to artists living in regional Queensland. The QRAA is Australia’s largest regional
art award and showcases new artworks, providing artists with both cash prizes
and career changing professional development opportunities, including solo exhibitions
and residencies. Entrants responded to the theme Resolution: reflecting
that artists and society as a whole grapple with and confront multiple viewpoints
and concepts requiring resolution.
The Mervyn Moriarty Landscape Exhibition was inaugurated in 2021 as a separate
touring exhibition of selected entries in the QRAA. The QRAA tours to venues
across regional Queensland - this exibition tours to Cairns, Texas and Roma.
The winner of the award received a cash award, a solo exhibition and a residency
at the Rockhampton Museum of Art.
Mervyn Moriarty: Our Founder
Flying Arts’ founder, Mervyn Moriarty OAM, is a legendary figure in the
Queensland arts community. The iconic story of Flying Arts began in 1970 when
Merv, as he was known, used prize money from an art award to learn to fly to
teach art in outback communities.
Merv made his first flight in 1971, a 6,000 km round journey, setting up the ‘art
school’ that is now Flying Arts. As the principal tutor from 1971 to 1983, he flew
to an average of 26 centres, four times a year, making over 1,250 trips and flying
over 400,000 km – that’s 24 trips from Brisbane to London.
As a result of his endeavours, a generation of artists, educators and communities
gained exposure to contemporary visual arts practice, many for the first time.
Merv passed away in 2021 at the age of 84, receiving an OAM for his contribution
to the arts in 2023. His pioneering spirit lives on through the work of Flying Arts.

Featured Artworks
1. Victoria Reichelt (Category Winner), The human race has, maybe, thirty-five
years left, 2022, Gold Coast, Oil on linen
2. Camille Manley, Creek, 2024, Burliegh Waters, Acrylic and oil stick on canvas
3. Cate Day, Accomodation Creek, 2024, Maleny, Oil on canvas
4. Charmaine Lyons, walk this way, 2024, Chatsworth, Photograph on paper
5. Chirstopher Inwood, Up | Mesosphere | A tile from the firmament | Infinite |
Ngorung | AN, 2024, East Ipswich, Acrylic on wood
6. Coralie Thompson, Mission Days, Mornington Island, Acrylic on canvas
7. Dianne Carter, Road to the Lake, 2024, Forestdale, Acrylic on canvas
8. Donna Glass, In Your Hands, 2024, Crownthorpe, Photograph
9. Larissa Warren, Converge, 2024, Tambourine Mountain, Local clay, porcelain,
cermaic stain, copper lustre
10. Lindy Sale, Birdsounds, 2024, Dulong, Oil on panel
11. Marvene Ash, Font/Remembering Limestone Valley, 2024, Maleny, Gouache
on arches paper
12. Nullabill Speedy, Strong Country, 2024, Bollon, Acrylic on canvas panels
13. Petalia Humphreys, EPLC C series, 2024, Perigian Beach, Low sheen acrylic
(Colour Me Pink, Quarter Pearl Lusta and unnamed mistint) on plywood
14. Rachel North, Moss emerges from the breaks; damp red earth beneath a
crumbling grey, 2024, Redbank Plains, Reduction fired ceramic
15. Susan Schmidt, Resilience, 2024, Noosa Heads, Charcoal, acrylic and
oil on canvas
Cover image: Aaron Butt, The Flying Artist, 2023, Acrylic on Canvas, 40 x 64cm

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Flying Arts Alliance Inc. (Flying Arts) acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of the lands
and seas on which we work, live and create. We pay our respects to Elders, past, present
and emerging.
Flying Arts is a not-for-profit organisation inspiring the appreciation, practice and professional
development of the visual and media arts as a lifetime interest or career throughout regional
and remote Queensland. Flying Arts is the administrator in Queensland of the Regional Arts
Fund (RAF), an Australian Government program provided through Regional Arts Australia.
Flying Arts is honoured to acknowledge the Governor of Queensland, Her Excellency the Honourable
Dr Jeannette Young AC PSM as our Patron. We also acknowledge Mr Tim Fairfax AC
and Mrs Gina Fairfax AC as our Cultural Patrons.
Flying Arts is supported by the Queensland Government through Arts Queensland and the Tim
Fairfax Family Foundation and receives funds from Creative Australia through the Australian
Cultural Fund. Flying Arts is supported by corporate partners and benefactors.
Follow us @flyingartsalliance development@flyingarts.org.au | 07 3216 1322

Partner Acknowledgements
Government Partner
Award Partners
Trusts & Foundations
Education Partners
The Booth Memorial
Fund of Annie Tan (Yuh
Sew) and the Geoff Booth
Foundation
John and Lyn Reynolds
Industry Partners
Venue Partners
Media Partners