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Details
- Date
- 2013
- Media categories
- Sketchbook , Drawing
- Materials used
- sketchbook: 77 leaves, 76 pencil drawings on ivory wove paper
- Dimensions
- 19.5 x 19.4 cm leaf; 20.0 x 20.4. x 2.4 cm book closed; 20.2 x 39.5 book open
- Signature & date
Not signed. Dated upper c. page 1, pencil ".../ 2013".
- Credit
- Gift of the artist 2015. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 296.2015.a-yyy
- Copyright
- © Mary Tonkin
- Artist information
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Mary Tonkin
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About
Mary Tonkin’s work is concerned with sites that have a personal, intimate and emotional resonance. Drawing is integral to her practice and the most powerful way of conveying her experience - she makes drawings to define and develop ideas for paintings and to help her make sense of her cognitive and emotional responses to a subject.
This sketchbook contains preparatory drawings for a major painting in the Gallery’s collection, 'Between two logs, Kalorama' 2013-14. The subject is a small pocket within a grove of trees at Kalorama, a farm for rare bulbs and flowers run by her family, in the Dandenong Ranges east of Melbourne. The drawings in the sketchbook were made in the landscape in 2013, capturing Tonkin’s initial encounter with her subject, before it was developed further in a major drawing.
