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Details
- Place where the work was made
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Castle Cove
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Sydney
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New South Wales
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Australia
- Date
- 1982
- Media category
- Materials used
- cast and moulded paper relief, tinted in earth tones
- Edition
- Unique state
- Dimensions
- 118.0 x 100.0 cm sheet; 122.2 x 104.0 x 10.0 cm frame
- Signature & date
Signed and dated below image l.r. on backing sheet, pencil "Ruth Faerber '82".
- Credit
- Purchased 1982
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 195.1982
- Copyright
- © Ruth Faerber
- Artist information
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Ruth Faerber
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About
'Excavation 3' is a companion piece to folio 'Excavation 1-4'. It is an example of my early cast relief prints, with styrofoam relief elements laminated between two sheets of white handmade paper, before completion by hand colouring - the illusion of stone acting as a metaphor for the endurance of the human spirit.
Artist's statement, 2006
© Australian Art Department, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 2006
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Exhibition history
Shown in 2 exhibitions
Ruth Faerber: signs and symbols, Bloomfield Galleries, Australia, 08 May 1982–25 May 1982
Sydney Prints: 45 years of the Sydney Printmakers, S.H. Ervin Gallery, The Rocks, 19 Aug 2006–24 Sep 2006
Sydney Prints: 45 years of the Sydney Printmakers, Hawkesbury Regional Gallery, Windsor, 09 Feb 2007–11 Mar 2007
Sydney Prints: 45 years of the Sydney Printmakers, Tamworth City Gallery, Tamworth, 24 Mar 2007–29 Apr 2007
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Bibliography
Referenced in 2 publications
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Julie Peterson, Paper visionary: works on paper by Ruth Faerber from the Mosman art collection, Sydney, 2016.
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Anne Ryan (Curator), Sydney prints: 45 years of the Sydney Printmakers, Sydney, 2006. List of works.
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