Fiona Hall
(Australia 1953– )
- Title
- Paradise, Canto VIII: The sphere to Venus, from the series Illustrations to Dante's Divine Comedy
- Year
- 1988
- Media category
- Photograph
- Materials used
- Polaroid photograph
- Dimensions
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61.3 x 52.4cm sight; 87.0 x 76.0cm frame
- Signature & date
- Not signed. Not dated.
- Credit
- Purchased 1989
- Accession number
- 193.1989
- Copyright
- © Fiona Hall
- Location
- Not on display
- Further information
This photograph from the late 1980s is from a series of twelve Polaroid photographs relating directly to Dante's 'Divine Comedy'. Each work is a carefully constructed scene illustrating a particular canto. Technically the artist has made the most of the cumbersome 20 x 40 inch Polaroid camera, using it to render exquisite detail and to capture subtle colour. She cuts and moulds aluminium soft-drink cans to form menacing vegetation, human figures, creatures from beyond the grave, on the journey through Hell and Purgatory to Paradise. Hall photographs them amongst found objects set against backgrounds which she has painted.
- Bibliography (1)
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Deborah Edwards (Australia) (Author), Daphne Wallace (Australia, b.1964) (Author), Margo Neale (Australia) (Author), Victoria Lynn (Australia) (Author), Sandra Byron (Australia) (Author), Review: works by women from the permanent collection of the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Domain, 1995, 15, 21.
- Exhibition history (4)
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Selected recent acquisitions, 1989, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 05 Sep 1989–17 Dec 1989.
Contemporary Colour Photographs from the Collection, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 06 Jul 1991–22 Sep 1991.
Photographs from the Collection, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 30 Mar 1993–09 May 1993.
Review - works by women from the permanent collection of the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 08 Mar 1995–04 Jun 1995.
