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The Johnstone Gallery Archive

Project participants: State Library of Queensland
Contact officer/s: Helen Cole, James Hardie Librarian -
Email helen.cole@slq.qld.gov.au
Phone 07 3840 7909, Fax 07 3840 7840
Project description: New website created to promote and make available the Johnstone Gallery Archive held by the James Hardie Library of Australian Fine Arts, State Library of Queensland. The Johnstone Gallery was a commercial art gallery that operated in Brisbane for 22 years during a seminal time in the development of an audience for contemporary art in Australia. It opened in 1950 and closed in 1972. It brokered strong sales year after year for Australian artists of the period, including Charles Blackman, Sidney Nolan, Donald Friend, Arthur Boyd, Ray Crooke, Margaret Olley, Lawrence Daws and Robert Dickerson.

The website includes a guide to the Johnstone Gallery Archival Collection and a database of exhibitions at the Gallery. The images used are taken from the Johnstone Gallery Archive itself, and from the Photographic Collection of Arthur Davenport, who was photographer to the Gallery from 1964.
URL of site: http://www.jga.slq.qld.gov.au
URL for project information: http://www.jga.slq.qld.gov.au/asp/index.asp?pgid=1333
Content: A selection of colour and black and white slides, prints and transparencies from the Arthur Davenport Photographic Collection, and colour and black and white prints from the Johnstone Gallery Archive have been digitised. In addition, a selection of original materials (correspondence, scrapbooks and exhibition catalogues) from the Johnstone Gallery Archive are being digitised.
Digitisation policy and priorities: http://www.slq.qld.gov.au/__data/assets/file/6286/digitisation.doc
Timetable: Completed. 5 Feb 2003 - 6 Mar 2003
Budget and funding: $40,000
Donors: Tim Fairfax Family Foundation, Philip Bacon, Maurice Heiner, Andrew & Kate Buchanan, Murray & Gill Elliott, The Sarah & Baillieu Myer Family Foundation, Anne & Michael Green, Jane & Rod Maclean, Toby & Katharine Stodart, Keith & Marie Dunstan, H.R. Bonython AC, DFC, AFC
Staff resources: Inhouse
Technical standards: Materials: Photographs, handwritten material, typewritten text, rinted exhibition catalogues
The State Library of Queensland's Digitisation Standards are available at http://www.slq.qld.gov.au/about/pub/pol
Cataloguing and indexing: EAD standards are currently being implemented by State Library of Queensland archivists. The Johnstone Gallery Archive records will be updated to comply with this standard.
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Project managers wishing to update the details of their Australian digitisation projects, should email the changes to alg@nla.gov.au.

Last modified: March 11 2005.