rosalie gascoigne
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ROSALIE GASCOIGNE. ARTIST. ROSALIE GASCOIGNE. 1917-1999. Born- A uckland. BA in arts – taught E nglish in high schools. 1943 moved to Canberra to marry astronomer. Lived near Mt Stromlo Observatory. 1962 took Ikebana classes (flower arranging) (translates to awareness of nature) - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
ROSALIE GASCOIGNE
ARTISTROSALIE GASCOIGNE 1917-1999 Born-Auckland
BA in arts – taught English in high schools
1943 moved to Canberra to marry astronomer Lived near Mt Stromlo Observatory
1962 took Ikebana classes (flower arranging) (translates to awareness of nature) (Sogetsu emphasizing line and form with colour coming after)
Never went to art school – never learnt to paint or draw
1982 – chose to represent Australia In 40th Venice Biennale First exhibition age 57
collector
Worked on her dining room table until 1983
ARTWORKassemblages
Tools – hacksaw, hammer, screwdriver, band saw etc
Method of working involves living with her assemblages, gradually observing them and changing them until she feels they are right
Leaves everything outside -weathered materials
Works for three hours at a time
Does the work herself (helpers are for finished works)
Work constructed from found materials- things other people discard
Yellow represents New Zealand’s yellow acacia tree’s golden flower
Text – use of letter forms and titles – English teacher & poetry, imagery – play with words
Emotional response, memories, intuitions – observations of the physical elements of area
Materials – sheets of corrugated iron, soft drink crates, sections of blistering masonite
Minimal intervention – selection & creation mutually dependent
repetition
serial production
use of grid
Critical review: “Gascoigne ..one of the finest of Australian artists using objects trouves and saw her ‘box’ arrangements of highway detritus, postcards and discards as Dadaist with intent”1970
Sydney Biennale 2002
Birdsong 1999
Honey Bees, 1992
WORLDAustralian landscape
barenessspaceskies
Great Southern Highlands
1960- started to rummage from official dumps – Bungendore – found abandoned sideshow –dolls gallery birds inspired many box works-Victorian & Edwardian bric-a-brac
Collector Dump = first retro –reflective road sign
Captain Flats, an old mining own 65km south of Canberra
crops
topography
brittle vegetation
vista of landscape
changes – daily/seasonal
metropolisGrass fest, 1999
All that jazz White city, 1993
Forty acre block
Painted wood, metal and collage, 1977
Inland sea, 1986
AUDIENCERole of the Art Critic: Her works are as good as memory and illustrations suggest. Many have become iconic in any overview of the last three decades of Australian art, and yet when seen again their strength invites us to find something new, valid and unexpected in both the formalist rigour of their assemblage and arrangement and in the poetic suggestiveness and mobility of surface, recalling the transcendental nuance of Rothko's work and offering a validation of non-representational intellectualism as a fundamental value in art.Juliette Piers; Artlink 2009
Role of the Art Historian: Gascoigne’s works celebrate the beauty of Australia’s natural landscape by interpreting it through different everyday objects…. Weathered timber, rusted metal, and faded and peeling paint are hallmarks of Gascoigne’s distinct visual style. Her sculptural forms reflect a past history or remnant from times gone by; the aged and deteriorated state of her materials suggesting a life already lived. Drew Bickford—Education and Public Programs Officer, Gallery A, Sydney
General members of the public
How has the audience changed over timeand brought different meaning to the artworks, the artist and interpretations of the world?