Rosalie Gascoigne
(Australia, New Zealand 25 Jan 1917–23 Oct 1999)
- Title
- Mosaic
- Year
- 1976
- Media category
- Mixed media
- Materials used
- fragments of decorated china, tins, timber, printed art reproductions on board
- Dimensions
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83.3 x 51.0 x 2.5cm
- Signature & date
- Not signed. Not dated.
- Credit
- Gift of Marie Sexton in memory of Clare and Nano Kinsella 2001
- Accession number
- 459.2001
- Copyright
- © Rosalie Gascoigne, 1976. Licensed by Viscopy, Sydney
- Location
- Not on display
- Further information
'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
- Bibliography (3)
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Vici Macdonald (Australia) (Author), Rosalie Gascoigne, Paddington, 1998, 106. included in list of solo exhibitions under 1976 exhibition 'Rosalie Gascoigne - Assemblages', Gallery A, Sydney
Janine Burke (Australia, b.1952) (Author), Field of vision. A decade of change: women's art in the seventies, Ringwood, 1990, 36 (illus.).
Robert Lindsay (Australia, b.1945) (Author), Survey 2: Rosalie Gascoigne, Melbourne, 1978, (illus.). not paginated; cat.no. 3
- Exhibition history (3)
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Rosalie Gascoigne: Assemblage (1976), Gallery A (Sydney), 11 Sep 1976–02 Oct 1976.
Survey 2: Rosalie Gascoigne (1978), National Gallery of Victoria [St Kilda Road], 29 Apr 1978–04 Jun 1978.
Kurt Schwitters acquisition and related works from the collection, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 29 Nov 2004–17 Apr 2005.
