Title
The crop I
1976
Artist
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Details
- Other Title
- The crop [Gallery A Sydney, 1976]
- Date
- 1976
- Media category
- Sculpture
- Materials used
- salsify heads, galvanised wire, galvanised iron
- Dimensions
- 30.0 x 90.0 x 96.0 cm
- Signature & date
Not signed. Not dated.
- Credit
- Purchased 1976
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 237.1976
- Copyright
- © Estate of Rosalie Gascoigne/Copyright Agency
- Artist information
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Rosalie Gascoigne
Works in the collection
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About
‘The crop 1’ is a major work in Gascoigne’s output. It presents the viewer with hundreds of dried salsify heads that have been compressed, bound and arranged on an iron sheet. The sculpture is usually seen as symbolising Australian agriculture, evoking the partitioning and cultivation of the land. Its composition emphasises order and balance, recalling the structuring of Japanese brush fences and ikebana arrangements. Texture is also central to the work: the materials show traces of natural processes, the effects of time in their environment. The work highlights Gascoigne’s method of presenting judicious and inspired juxtapositions of found objects, the serendipity of her materials always conditioned by conceptual clarity.
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Exhibition history
Shown in 4 exhibitions
Rosalie Gascoigne: Assemblage (1976), Gallery A (Sydney), Paddington, 11 Sep 1976–02 Oct 1976
Survey 2: Rosalie Gascoigne (1978), National Gallery of Victoria [St Kilda Road], Melbourne, 29 Apr 1978–04 Jun 1978
Review: works by women from the permanent collection of the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 08 Mar 1995–04 Jun 1995
Rosalie Gascoigne - Material as Landscape (1997), Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 14 Nov 1997–11 Jan 1998
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Bibliography
Referenced in 12 publications
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Deborah Clark, Rosalie Gascoigne, 'Standing on the mountain: the landscape impulse in Rosalie Gascoigne's art', pg. 29-33, Melbourne, 2008, 30.
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Sharon Connolly (Producer) and Robin Hughes (Director), Australian biography: Rosalie Gascoigne, Lindfield, 1999. 'The crop' appears in a montage of several works by the artist.
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Deborah Edwards, Rosalie Gascoigne - Material as Landscape, 'Material as Landscape', pg. 10-17, Sydney, 1997, 13, 16, 19 (colour illus.), 60. plate no. 1
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Deborah Edwards, Look, 'Made from the Land', pg. 21-22, Melbourne, Oct 1999, 20 (colour illus.).
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Deborah Edwards, Rosalie Gascoigne: Material as landscape - Education kit, Sydney, 1997, (illus.).
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Hannah Fink, Gallery A Sydney 1964 - 1983, 'The Life of Things: Rosalie Gascoigne at Gallery A Sydney', pg. 147-163, Campbelltown, 2009, 153 (colour illus.),. Colour installation photograph on page 153 of Gascoigne's 'Assemblage' exhibition at Gallery A Sycney, 1976; List of works is reproduced on page 163.
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Janet Hawley, The Sydney Morning Herald, 'A late developer', pg. 44, Sydney, 15 Nov 1997, 44. Article appears in 'Good Weekend' supplement
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Marianne Hulsbosch (Editor), Cambridge visual arts: stage 4, Cambridge, 2008, 131 (colour illus.).
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Robert Lindsay., Survey 2: Rosalie Gascoigne, 'Rosalie Gascoigne', Melbourne, 1978. cat.no. 23
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Vici Macdonald, Rosalie Gascoigne, Sydney, 1998, 17 (colour illus.), 29, 106, 110. figure no. 5
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Vivienne Webb, State of the arts, 'Rosalie Gascoigne: Material as landscape', pg. 6, Sydney, Dec 1997-Mar 1998, 6 (illus.).
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Editor Unknown (Editor), The Art Gallery of New South Wales - Jul-Dec 1997 Calendar, Sydney, Jul 1997-Dec 1997, (colour illus.).
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