Rosalie Gascoigne
Rosalie Gascoigne AM | |
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Born | Auckland, New Zealand | 25 January 1917
Died | 25 October 1999 Canberra, Australia | (aged 82)
Nationality | Australian |
Known for | Assemblage, sculpture |
Notable work | Earth (1999) |
Awards | Exhibited, Venice Biennale 1982 Order of Australia 1994 |
Rosalie Norah King Gascoigne
Life
Gascoigne was born Rosalie Norah King Walker in Auckland, New Zealand, on 25 January 1917. She was the second of the three children of Stanley and Marion King Walker.[1][2][3] She received her Bachelor of Arts degree from Auckland University College in 1937.[4] She emigrated to Canberra, Australia in 1943 where she married astronomer S. C. B (Ben) Gascoigne whom she had met at Auckland University.[3] They set up home in the isolated scientific community of Mount Stromlo.[1][2] She was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) in June 1994, for services to art, particularly sculpture.[3][5] She died on 25 October 1999 at the John James Hospital in Canberra.[2][3]
Art
During the many lonely years spent raising her three children, Gascoigne found solace by making natural assemblages first via traditional
Themes and influences
She said that her art-making materials "need to have been open to the weather."
Text is another important element of her work; she would cut up and rearrange the faded, naive lettering found on these items to create abstract yet evocative grids of letters and word fragments, sometimes alluding to the crosswords and poetry of which she was so fond.[9] Knowledgeable and widely read, she was inspired amongst others by the artists Colin McCahon, Ken Whisson, Dick Watkins and Robert Rauschenberg, and the poets William Wordsworth, Peter Porter and Sylvia Plath. She also had a fondness for the pronouncements of Pablo Picasso. However gradually both colour and text seemed to fade from her work, and in her final years she created meditative, elegiac compositions of white or earth-brown panels.[7]
Although working vigorously into her 80s, with occasional help from an assistant, her age at the height of her success precluded the travelling that would have been necessary to build the international audience her work deserved. Although she exhibited occasionally overseas—including the 1982 Venice Biennale (the first Australian woman to do so), Switzerland and Sweden as well as throughout Asia (Japan, South Korea, Taiwan amongst others), the major holdings of her work remain in Australia and New Zealand, both of which claim her as their own. Fine examples of Gascoigne's oeuvre can be found in most Antipodean galleries. The Metropolitan Museum of Art owns one of her smaller pieces.[7]
Major collections
Museum | City | Country |
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Art Gallery of Ballarat[4] | Ballarat | Australia |
Art Gallery of New South Wales[10] | Sydney, New South Wales | Australia |
Art Gallery of South Australia[11] | North Terrace, Adelaide | Australia |
Art Gallery of Western Australia[10] | Perth, Western Australia
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Australia |
Artbank[11] | Sydney | Australia |
Geelong Art Gallery[11] | Victoria
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Australia |
Latrobe Regional Gallery[10] | Latrobe, Melbourne | Australia |
Metropolitan Museum of Art[10] | New York | United States |
Museum of Contemporary Art Australia[11] | Sydney | Australia |
Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa[11]
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Wellington | New Zealand |
National Gallery of Australia[12] | Canberra | Australia |
National Gallery of Victoria[13] | Victoria
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Australia |
Newcastle Art Gallery[14] | Newcastle, New South Wales | Australia |
Queensland Art Gallery[15] | Brisbane, Queensland
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Australia |
References
- ^ a b "Artist Profile". Art Gallery of NSW. Retrieved 11 June 2016.
- ^ a b c d Hossack, Rebecca (1 November 1999). "Obituary: Rosalie Gascogne". The Independent. Retrieved 11 June 2016.
- ^ a b c d e f Francis, Niki (14 February 2013). "Gascoigne, Rosalie Norah King (1917 - 1999)". The Australian Women's Register. Retrieved 11 June 2016.
- ^ a b "Artist Profile". Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery. Retrieved 11 June 2016.
- ^ "It's an Honour". Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. Retrieved 11 June 2016.
- ^ MacDonald (1998), p. 21.
- ^ ISBN 0646347888.
- ^ See photograph of her work of art (1978), Canberra Times 29th nov 2019 Rosalie Gascoigne : Creating a new natural order by Sacha Grishin [1]
- ^ For instance her artwork Sky-light,0
- ^ Australian Art Collector(11).
- ^ a b c d e MacDonald (1998), p. 108.
- ^ "Rosalie Gascoigne, Earth no. 7 1999". Collection search. National Gallery of Australia. Retrieved 1 December 2010.
- ^ "Rosalie GASCOIGNE". NGV Collection. National Gallery of Victoria. Archived from the original on 27 February 2011. Retrieved 1 December 2010.
- ^ "Newcastle Art Gallery - collection - collecting-areas -sculpture". Retrieved 16 September 2020.
- ^ "Rosalie Gascoigne Lamp lit 1989". Collection. Queensland Art Gallery. Retrieved 1 December 2010.
Further reading
The most comprehensive book on her work to date is Martin Gascoigne's "Rosalie Gascoigne: A catalogue raisonné", available to download for free at press.anu.edu.au. The most substantial exhibition catalogues are "From the Studio of Rosalie Gascoigne" containing memoirs and correspondence from her husband, son and studio assistants, and Kelly Gellatly's "Rosalie Gascoigne". The Australian Biography website has an extensive interview (video and text).
- Martin Gascoigne (2019) "Rosalie Gascoigne: A catalogue raisonné", ANU Press, Acton, ACT, Australia ISBN 9781760462352(online)
- Vici MacDonald (1998) "Rosalie Gascoigne", Regaro Press, Sydney ISBN 0-646-34788-8
- Mary Eagle, ed. (2000) From the Studio of Rosalie Gascoigne, Australian National University Drill Hall Gallery, exhibition catalogue. ISBN 0-7315-2830-1
- www.australianbiography.gov.au › subjects › gascoigne › bio
- Mary Eagle (1985) "Rosalie Gascoigne New Work", https://eprints.utas.edu.au/18232/1/Rosalie_Gascoigne,_1985_Final.pdf
- Kelly Gellatly (2008) "Rosalie Gascoigne" National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne ISBN 9780724103027(pbk)
- Gregory O'Brien (2004) Rosalie Gascoigne: Plain Air, City Gallery Wellington, Victoria University Press. ISBN 0-86473-472-7
- Deborah Edwards (1998) Rosalie Gascoigne: Material as Landscape, Art Gallery of New South Wales. ISBN 0-646-33956-7
External links
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- Rosalie Gascoigne at the Art Gallery of New South Wales
- Rosalie Gascoigne at Australian Biography
- Rosalie Gascoigne at Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery
- Lamp lit (1989), Queensland Art Gallery
- Rosalie Gascoigne at the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia
- Rosalie Gascoigne at the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa