What do you call a person with a rabbit on their head?

Well, this one is called "Metaphysica: Rabbit" (2007) by Chinese artist Ah Xian and it's on display with several other adorned busts at the Queensland Art Gallery. It joyously explores the nature of existence and implies something beyond the physical entity in which we exist.

And you thought the answer was Warren.

Doorways of Brisbane

Queensland Art Gallery doorways.

Don't Mind Me

This is "Lucretia" by Giacomo Ginotti (1837-97) and is positioned in the back lobby of the Queensland Art Gallery. It's easy to walk past it but if you take time to look, she's not in a happy place.

Look at that grip!

Panorama of Brisbane, 1880

More information on this painting later... in the meantime, can you spot anything familiar or where the artist was standing when he painted it? Click on it for a closer view.


(Edit) The artist was J.A. Clark and he was standing on Bowen terrace (at what is now the Wilson Outlook Reserve) looking at the section of the river which now boasts the story bridge so well done to Jake, 'me', anonymous and no doubt tff for spotting it correctly!  Spring Hill stands out with the windmill on the left and the newly erected "old" Parliament House on the right. It's a gigantic painting - I think 5 or 6 feet long - and it hangs in the Queensland Art Gallery. Definitely worth a visit!

Talking of visits, thanks for visiting this blog today! Lovely.