Elizabeth Rooney

(Australia 1929– )

Title

King Street Sydney, 1890-1980

Year

1980-1981

Media category

Materials used

etching, printed in black ink with plate tone on white wove paper

Edition

artist's proof 1

Dimensions

22.0 x 37.8cm platemark; 40.9 x 54.3cm sheet

Signature & date

Signed and dated l.r., pencil "Elizabeth Rooney 1980-81".

Credit

Gift of Akky van Ogtrop and the 5th International Works on Paper Fair 1995

Accession number

511.1995

Copyright

Location

Not on display

Further information

Elizabeth Rooney's prints often express her strong views on urban and rural conservation issues. The development of Sydney is a recurring theme in her work, as is 'revisiting' a site to show the changes wrought upon it over a period of time. Subsequent states of an image, through re-working the etching plate, is also a common feature of her prints, which reveal further changes in her subjects; Rooney has documented the changing cityscapes of Sydney and Newcastle over the last thirty years, leaving a poignant and often humorous record of lost or threatened landmarks.

Australian Art Department, AGSNW, 2000

Bibliography (4)

Peter Emmett, Metropolis 1999, Glebe, 1999, [illus.]. Exhibition guide, brochure format.

Peter Emmett, Sydney: metropolis, suburb, harbour 2000, 'Metropolis', pg. 13-70, Glebe, 2000, 65 (illus.).

Hendrik Kolenberg, Look Nov 1998, 'Australian Prints from the Collection 139 of the best', pg. 26-27, Heidelberg, Nov 1998, 27 (illus.).

Hendrik Kolenberg and Anne Ryan, Australian prints from the Gallery's collection 1998, Sydney, 1998, 120 (illus.). cat.no. 101

Exhibition history (2)

Australian prints from the Gallery's collection (1998-1999), Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 06 Nov 1998–07 Feb 1999

Metropolis, Museum of Sydney, Sydney, 18 Dec 1999–02 Apr 2000