Title
Mosaic
1976
Artist
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Details
- Date
- 1976
- Media category
- Mixed media
- Materials used
- fragments of decorated china, tins, timber, printed art reproductions on board
- Dimensions
- 83.3 x 51.0 x 2.5 cm
- Signature & date
Not signed. Not dated.
- Credit
- Gift of Marie Sexton in memory of Clare and Nano Kinsella 2001
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 459.2001
- Copyright
- © Estate of Rosalie Gascoigne/Copyright Agency
- Artist information
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Rosalie Gascoigne
Works in the collection
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About
'Mosaic' was shown in the artists's solo exhibition held at Gallery A in Sydney, from which two other works in the Gallery's collection,'The crop I' and 'Enamel ware', were also exhibited, and which emphatically brought her assemblages to the attention of the Australian art world.
'Mosaic' draws upon the tradition of medieval icons and shrines, using fractured decorative chinaware and carefully selected images of the Madonna and other Christian figures, to create a gem-like construction which is a modern play on early Christian mosaics such as those at Ravenna. In this sense 'Mosaic' joins a number of early Gascoigne assemblages with similar 'art-historical' themes, as well as prefiguring the artist's slightly later landscape-oriented box constructions.
Whilst a very early work in both conception and construction 'Mosaic' nonetheless also holds that almost universal appeal which Gascoigne's work commands from viewers ever responsive to the extraordinary allusive power of her assemblages.
Australian Art Department, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 2001
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Exhibition history
Shown in 3 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
Kurt Schwitters acquisition and related works from the collection, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 29 Nov 2004–17 Apr 2005
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Bibliography
Referenced in 3 publications
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Janine Burke, Field of vision. A decade of change: women's art in the seventies, 'Rosalie Gascoigne', pg. 35-36, Ringwood, 1990, 36 (illus.).
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Robert Lindsay, Survey 2: Rosalie Gascoigne, Melbourne, 1978, (illus.). not paginated; cat.no. 3
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Vici Macdonald, Rosalie Gascoigne, Sydney, 1998, 106. included in list of solo exhibitions under 1976 exhibition 'Rosalie Gascoigne - Assemblages', Gallery A, Sydney
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