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Details
- Place where the work was made
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Pymble
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Sydney
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New South Wales
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Australia
- Date
- 1995
- Media category
- Materials used
- woodcut, red and blue ink on two sheets of Japanese mulberry paper
- Edition
- 3/3
- Dimensions
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89.8 x 117.9 cm blockmark (overall); 110.9 x 160.4 cm sheet (overall)
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a - left image, 90 x 58.4 cm, blockmark
a - left image, 110.3 x 80 cm, sheet
b - right image, 90 x 58.4 cm, blockmark
b - right image, 110.3 x 80 cm, sheet
- Signature & date
Signed and dated l.r., pencil "Ruth Burgess '95".
- Credit
- Gift of Miss Phyllis R Arnott 1995
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 472.1995.a-b
- Copyright
- © Ruth Burgess
- Artist information
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Ruth Burgess
Works in the collection
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About
This woodcut emanated from 20 years' repeated use of the forest as my imagery. I wanted to do large works to take the woodcut out of an illustrative or limited medium into a large-scale concept like a painting yet with all the vigour of the cutting which I love.
I cut the blocks after drawing a charcoal image and the cutting is dominant in the final image, the printing is towards this. I think my interest in Asian art had some component.
Artist's statement, 2006
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Places
Where the work was made
Pymble
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Exhibition history
Shown in 4 exhibitions
Contemporary Australian prints from the collection (2004), Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 03 Apr 2004–06 Jun 2004
Sydney Prints: 45 years of the Sydney Printmakers, S.H. Ervin Gallery, The Rocks, 19 Aug 2006–24 Sep 2006
Sydney Prints: 45 years of the Sydney Printmakers, Hawkesbury Regional Gallery, Windsor, 09 Feb 2007–11 Mar 2007
Sydney Prints: 45 years of the Sydney Printmakers, Tamworth City Gallery, Tamworth, 24 Mar 2007–29 Apr 2007
Ruth Burgess: From the Forest (working title), Mosman Art Gallery, Mosman, 16 Mar 2013–19 May 2013
(Ruth Burgess woodcuts May 1995), Fire Station Gallery, Rozelle
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Bibliography
Referenced in 3 publications
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Anne Ryan (Curator), Sydney prints: 45 years of the Sydney Printmakers, Sydney, 2006. List of works.
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Anne Ryan, Contemporary Australian prints from the collection, Sydney, 2004. cat.no. 6
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Author Unknown, Ruth Burgess woodcuts, 1995, cover (illus.).
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