Fairweather Time Travel on Bribie Island: Ian Fairweather's Ghost

I live on Bribie Island, a small island off the coast of South East Queensland. It is connected to the mainland by a bridge and is some 80km north of Brisbane. Fairweather time travel on Bribie Island. The bridge is relatively new, as it was built in 1961-63. Today, Bribie Island is home to some 21, 456 people as of 2022 figures. One man who was not in favour of the bridge being built was Ian Fairweather. Still considered one of Australia’s foremost artists of the twentieth century, the late Ian Fairweather lived on Bribie for a good couple of decades.
“When he died in 1974 after a long period of self-imposed austerity and improvisation on Bribie Island, Queensland, Ian Fairweather was at the apex of his fame. He had been called ‘our greatest painter’, and his works were keenly sought by galleries, collectors and artists.”
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Ian Fairweather Travelled To Bribie Island & Decided To Stay
Ian Fairweather lived like a hermit in bush humpies on Bribie Island. I recently read a collection of his letters sent to family, friends, and gallery administrators. Letter writing is no longer a culturally significant pastime these days but remains a wonderful record of the thoughts and concerns of their author. It is a way to get inside the head of the writer at a particular time and place. Reading Fairweather’s letters affected me quite profoundly. Whether it was the fact that I was living quite close to where he had lived and the intimacy in which he communed with his natural setting on Bribie, or something else, I was mesmerised by his missives.
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