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Details
- Date
- 1994
- Media categories
- Sculpture , Painting
- Materials used
- timber grid, canvas panel, oil paint
- Dimensions
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grid: 188.5 x 189.5 x 4.0cm
canvas: 189.5 x 188.5 x 3.0 cm
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a - grid panel, 188.5 x 189.5 x 4 cm
b - canvas panel, 189.5 x 188.5 x 3 cm
- Signature & date
Signed and dated centre stretcher member canvas panel, ink "Hilarie Mais 94".
- Credit
- Rudy Komon Memorial Fund 1994
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 585.1994.a-b
- Copyright
- © Hilarie Mais
- Artist information
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Hilarie Mais
Works in the collection
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About
Since the 1980s, much of Hilarie Mais’ work has been dedicated to the form of the grid, which she describes as ’a non-hierarchical place, a democratic site, a place of serenity, proportion, surface, tone, balance and harmony’.
'Bearing effigy' is a dual work comprising two- and three-dimensional elements. A handmade wooden grid based on the width of Mais’s outstretched arms leans against the wall. Hanging alongside is its two-dimensional counterpart, a painted canvas that mirrors the grid in size and composition. Mais investigates the slippage or mistranslation between dimensions, creating a space where the real and the illusory intersect.
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Exhibition history
Shown in 3 exhibitions
Hilarie Mais, Sherman Galleries, Paddington, 09 Sep 1994–01 Oct 1994
Review: works by women from the permanent collection of the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 08 Mar 1995–04 Jun 1995
Hilarie Mais: retrospective 1982-2004, Drill Hall Gallery, Australian National University, Canberra, 20 May 2004–04 Jul 2004
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Bibliography
Referenced in 3 publications
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Michael Desmond, Contemporary: Art Gallery of New South Wales Contemporary Collection, 'Abstraction', pg.16-59, Sydney, 2006, 46, 47 (colour illus.).
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Deborah Edwards, Daphne Wallace, Margo Neale, Victoria Lynn and Sandra Byron, Review: works by women from the permanent collection of the Art Gallery of New South Wales, "Women Artists in the Contemporary Collection", Victoria Lynn, pg. 13-15, Sydney, 1995, 15, 22.
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Anne Loxley, Hilarie Mais, 'Essay', pg. 7-22, Sydney, 1995, 21, 52 (colour illus.).
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