Their Art's For Art's Sake

From a Rabaul Correspondent Rabaul Art Club, which has held six public exhibitions—including one on shipboard—will probably be the means of extending an interest in art throughout Papua-New Guinea.

THIS is the opinion of one of the club’s firmest patrons, the Chief Justice of Papua-New Guinea, Mr.

Justice A. Mann.

Mr. Mann, who is not bad with the brush himself, has contrived to attend several of the Rabaul exhibitions while on circuit out of Port Moresby.

He now plans to arrange for the showing of one of the Rabaul ex hibitions in Port Moresby.

Mr. Mann said recently that he believed this would encourage the formation of a similar art club in Port Moresby, and would also publi cise throughout Papua-New Guinea the work which the Rabaul group was carrying out.

Members of the Rabaul group come from every walk of life, and they get a lot of fun out of their oils, water colours and sketches. Their work has attracted good sales at local exhi bitions.

No definite date has been set down for the exhibition in Port Moresby, but Mr. Mann plans to hold it at the Papua-New Guinea Museum.

"There are a few things wrong with this painting, so I am not terribly happy about being photographed looking at it," said Mr. Justice Mann when this shot was taken at an exhibition held by Rabaul Art Club. But Mr. Mann has the right to criticise—he painted the picture himself.