A reaction to being stuck for hours behind a semi-trailer carrying a house up Tamborine Mountain in Queensland, this tale of a traditional "Queenslander" style house lifted out of the way of a deadly flood by its owner's judicious use of hot-air balloons led to a sequence of pictures detailing the flying house's journey over notable Australian landmarks, both natural and manmade, and illustrate the book Icon Collection.
He was certainly a treasured teacher on Brisbane's School of Art, later a 'Drawing Master' at Brisbane Girls Grammar School, next to his work as a painter and as an illustrator (most notably for the Queenslander, and for 'Bobby' Byrne's weekly the Queensland Figaro).
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'J.A. Clark', as he commonly signed himself, was responsible for the famous 1880 oil painting 'Panorama of Brisbane from Bowen Terrace' and also for all of the famous front pages and title-illustration used in the Queenslander (see illustration on this page) during Lukin's managing editorship of that Journal from 1873 to 1880.
Ironically, this investigation was carried out by a Queenslander, former Sydney Roosters CEO Brian Canavan.
Other chairmen over time was noted Queenslander's such as Samuel Griffith, John Douglas (Queensland politician) and James Brunton Stephens, William Senior (journalist) the Principal Short Hand Writer also known as 'Red Spinner' (the latter three, in particular, were known to be close friends of Feilberg).
Australian tennis player Rod Laver had a longer rivalry with his fellow Queenslander Roy Emerson.