NEWS
City councillor David Hinchliffe will devote all proceeds from an upcoming New York exhibition – his 36th but his first in the Big Apple – to the Premier’s Disaster Appeal.
Cr Hinchliffe, who has announced his retirement from Central Ward at the next municipal poll in March 2012 after almost a quarter of a century in local politics, will take leave from council for two weeks to prepare for the exhibition at the Australian Consulate on 42nd Street in early April.
With only his creativity for company, the long-term councillor will lock himself away in a small rented Manhattan apartment for some days to complete a number of canvases based on oil sketches done in Brisbane and Toowoomba.
Theme for all the paintings will be of the January floods in Queensland and all proceeds will be handled by the Australian Consulate and go directly to the Disaster Appeal.
Foreign Minister Kevin Rudd who will be in Europe at that time, will open the exhibition by video.
