2004 Queensland Greats recipients
The Queensland Greats honoured in 2004 were:
- Professor Julie H Campbell AO
- Hugh Cornish AM
- Dr Richard Lewandowski
- William Robinson AO
- Nicholas (Nick) Xynias AO BEM.
Professor Julie H Campbell AO
Professor Julie Campbell is the Director of the Wesley Research Institute at the Wesley Hospital, Senior Principal Research Fellow of the National Health and Medical Research Council, and Director of the Centre for Research in Vascular Biology at The University of Queensland. Her scientific research excellence has been recognised by the Wellcome Australia Medal (2005), election to the Australian Academy of Science (2000), Centenary Medal (2003) and an Order of Australia (2006). Her research achievements include the discovery of smooth muscle plasticity and its relevance to vascular disease as well as development of ‘grow-your-own’ vascular grafts from cells of bone marrow origin using the abdominal cavity as a bioreactor.
Hugh Cornish AM
Hugh Cornish pioneered television in Queensland and was the first face to appear on Queensland television in 1959. His contribution to the television industry, the arts and the community have been many and varied throughout his career. Among his many achievements, Hugh is a recording artist, radio announcer, television presenter and was executive producer for the Royal Gala Performance in 1992. In addition he is a committed fund raiser and charity worker, raising more than $9 million through telethons that he produced and compered, and has supported many other charities that service Queensland’s disadvantaged.
Dr Richard Lewandowski
Dr Richard Lewandowski is one of Australia's most respected cranio-facial surgeons who specialises in rebuilding faces. In 1999, together with his wife, Richard founded the Australian chapter of Operation Smile, a worldwide not-for-profit organisation dedicated to providing reconstructive cranio-facial surgery to children and young adults in developing countries. Operation Smile has brought children from the Philippines, Vietnam, New Guinea and Timor to Brisbane for life changing operations.
William Robinson AO
William Robinson is one of the finest landscape painters today, working in the European tradition. For four decades William has trained, taught and exhibited almost annually. He won the Archibald Prize for Portraiture in 1987 and 1995 and the Wynne Prize for Landscape in 1990 and 1996. His work was the subject of a major retrospective that travelled from Queensland Art Gallery to the National Gallery of Australia in 2001 and is one of the few Australia artists to have been collected by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. During his long teaching career, he guided generations of artists at a range of Brisbane art colleges, culminating in his time as Head of the Painting Department at the Brisbane College for Advanced Education, now known as Queensland University of Technology.
