From river banks to shearing sheds: Thirty years with flying arts 1971 - 2001

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The thesis explores the history of an organization generally known as Flying Arts. Queensland is host to this unique visual art school which, since 1971, has flown contemporary artists to regional Queensland. The school was responsible for disseminating modern creative art – experimental art when the artist relies on his subjective sensibility – to people throughout Queensland after its founder, Mervyn Moriarty, learned to fly a small plane to take his workshops to the bush. In particular, the study examines the impact of creative art on the lives of women (and some men) living in regional Queensland, to understand why so many travelled long distances to attend workshops.With very little having been written on the leisure activities of country women, the history of Flying Arts gives an insight into why women were attracted to its workshops. Women predominated at workshops and the thesis argues that they found relief from constantly living with the heat and the dust and the loneliness o

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