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Details
- Date
- 2015-2016
- Media category
- Drawing
- Materials used
- charcoal on three sheets of paper, charcoal wall drawing
- Dimensions
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installation dimensions variable
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a - triple window, 152.4 x 237.6 cm, 152.4 x 237.1 cm sheet size; 146.3 x 228.8 cm image size
b - double window, 152.4 x 179.1 cm, 152.4 x 146.6 cm sheet size; 171.8 x 178.7 cm image size
c - doorway, 201.6 x 152.4 cm, 201.6 x 152.4 cm sheet size; 148.3 x 192. 3 cm image size
- Credit
- Purchased with funds provided by the Gil & Shay Docking Drawing Fund 2017
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 193.2017.a-c
- Copyright
- © Catherine O'Donnell
- Artist information
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Catherine O'Donnell
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About
Catherine O’Donnell’s highly refined and technically impressive charcoal drawings of the urban environment are a combination of social critique, formalist aesthetics and narrative. She finds beauty and a shared humanity in overlooked pockets of the world that are fundamental to the identity of those who occupy them.
This monumental installation refashions one architectural form, the post-war fibro house of Western Sydney, onto another, the wall of an art gallery. More than an anonymous box with a blank façade, it is very like the home in which the artist grew up and formed her earliest memories.
The work’s scale encourages a physical as well as psychological experience in the viewer. There are occasional, subtle visual interferences that imply a human presence suggesting a life, or lives, within.
O’Donnell’s method combines working from memory and photographs, as well as close observation. -
Exhibition history
Shown in 1 exhibition
Dobell Australian Drawing Biennial 2016, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 30 Jul 2016–11 Dec 2016
Dobell Australian Drawing Biennial 2016, Western Plains Cultural Centre, Dubbo, 05 May 2017–02 Jul 2017
