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Details
- Date
- 1980-1981
- Media category
- Materials used
- etching, printed in black ink with plate tone on white wove paper
- Edition
- artist's proof 1
- Dimensions
- 21.9 x 37.6 cm platemark; 41.0 x 54.2 cm sheet
- Signature & date
Signed and dated l.r. in pencil 'Elizabeth Rooney 1980-81'
- Credit
- Gift of Akky van Ogtrop and the 5th International Works on Paper Fair 1995
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 511.1995
- Copyright
- © Estate of Elizabeth Rooney
- Artist information
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Elizabeth Rooney
Works in the collection
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About
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
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Exhibition history
Shown in 2 exhibitions
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
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Bibliography
Referenced in 4 publications
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Peter Emmett, Metropolis, Glebe, 1999, [illus.]. Exhibition guide, brochure format.
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Peter Emmett, Sydney: metropolis, suburb, harbour, 'Metropolis', pg. 13-70, Glebe, 2000, 65 (illus.).
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Hendrik Kolenberg, Look, 'Australian Prints from the Collection 139 of the best', pg. 26-27, Heidelberg, Nov 1998, 27 (illus.).
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Hendrik Kolenberg and Anne Ryan, Australian prints from the Gallery's collection, Sydney, 1998, 120 (illus.). cat.no. 101
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