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Issue Details: First known date: 2017... 2017 Helen Haenke at Rockton : A Creative Life
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'Rockton, one of Ipswich's historic homes and listed with the National Trust, was also home for many years to one of south-east Queensland's most prolific writers and poets. A true artist, Helen Haenke devoted much of her life to the vibrant cultural creative scene of the 1960s and 1970s - opening her home to contemporaries such as Rodney Hall, Thomas Shapcott, Bruce Dawe and Oodgeroo Noonuccal. A one-time student of highly controversial artist Max Meldrum, Haenke also trained as a graphic artist and continued to paint throughout her life.

'Helen Haenke at Rockton is a visual celebration of the life of this respected artist and author, offering a selection of her finest artworks, poems, fiction and letters, and documenting her valuable contribution to Queensland cultural history.' (Publication summary)

Contents

* Contents derived from the St Lucia, Indooroopilly - St Lucia area, Brisbane - North West, Brisbane, Queensland,:University of Queensland Press , 2017 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
Introduction, Bronwen Levy , single work essay (p. 1-3)
Foreword, Simon Farley , single work essay

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

Works about this Work

Joanne Holliman (ed.), Helen Haenke at Rockton : A Creative Life Kay Ferres , 2019 single work review
— Appears in: Queensland Review , June vol. 26 no. 1 2019; (p. 186-188)

— Review of Helen Haenke at Rockton : A Creative Life Helen Haenke , 2017 single work autobiography

'This book introduces us to a little known artist, playwright and poet who began her career as a commercial artist in Sydney and who settled into a creative life in Ipswich in the 1950s and 1960s. This beautifully produced volume has been compiled and edited by Joanne Holliman from the archive at the Fryer Library. It has been organised around the successive stages of Helen’s artistic development and is replete with photographs, colour plates and other illustrations that show how rich and various Helen’s creative life was.' (Introduction)

Helen Haenke : Helen Haenke at Rockton: A Creative Life Jeannette Delamoir , 2017 single work essay
— Appears in: The Newtown Review of Books , July 2017;

'The life of Helen Haenke highlights the vitality and value of regional arts and their crucial interconnections with place.'

Joanne Holliman (ed.), Helen Haenke at Rockton : A Creative Life Kay Ferres , 2019 single work review
— Appears in: Queensland Review , June vol. 26 no. 1 2019; (p. 186-188)

— Review of Helen Haenke at Rockton : A Creative Life Helen Haenke , 2017 single work autobiography

'This book introduces us to a little known artist, playwright and poet who began her career as a commercial artist in Sydney and who settled into a creative life in Ipswich in the 1950s and 1960s. This beautifully produced volume has been compiled and edited by Joanne Holliman from the archive at the Fryer Library. It has been organised around the successive stages of Helen’s artistic development and is replete with photographs, colour plates and other illustrations that show how rich and various Helen’s creative life was.' (Introduction)

Helen Haenke : Helen Haenke at Rockton: A Creative Life Jeannette Delamoir , 2017 single work essay
— Appears in: The Newtown Review of Books , July 2017;

'The life of Helen Haenke highlights the vitality and value of regional arts and their crucial interconnections with place.'

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