"My own sort of heaven"
Widely regarded as a major Australian artist, Rosalie Gascoigne first exhibited in 1974 at the age of fifty-seven. She rapidly achieved critical acclaim for her assemblages which were her response to the Monaro landscape surrounding Canberra. The great blonde paddocks, vast skies and big raucous bir...
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| description | Widely regarded as a major Australian artist, Rosalie Gascoigne first exhibited in 1974 at the age of fifty-seven. She rapidly achieved critical acclaim for her assemblages which were her response to the Monaro landscape surrounding Canberra. The great blonde paddocks, vast skies and big raucous birds contrasted with the familiar lush green harbour city of Auckland she had left behind. Her medium: weathered discards from the landscape. By her death in 1999, her work had been purchased for major public art collections in Australia, Aotearoa New Zealand and New York, and had been exhibited across Europe and Asia. Gascoigne's story is often cast in simple terms—an inspirational tale of an older woman 'finding herself’ later in life and gaining artistic acclaim. But the reality is much more complex and contingent. This biography explores Gascoigne’s achievement of her ‘own sort of heaven’ through the frame of the narrative she told once she had gained fame, using a series of interviews she gave from 1980 to 1998. It revolves around her frequently stated sense of feeling an outsider, her belief that artists are born not made, and other factors central to the development and impact of her work. Migrating to Australia from New Zealand in 1943, Gascoigne experienced the dramatic social changes of the 1960s and 1970s and benefited from the growth of cultural life in Canberra, a developing Australian art industry, and changing conceptions of aesthetic beauty. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-1468952024-10-26T04:20:12Z "My own sort of heaven" Francis, Nicola Rosalie Gascoigne assemblage biography artist Australian art thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DN Biography and non-fiction prose thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHM Australasian and Pacific history thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AF The Arts: art forms::AFJ Other graphic or visual art forms Widely regarded as a major Australian artist, Rosalie Gascoigne first exhibited in 1974 at the age of fifty-seven. She rapidly achieved critical acclaim for her assemblages which were her response to the Monaro landscape surrounding Canberra. The great blonde paddocks, vast skies and big raucous birds contrasted with the familiar lush green harbour city of Auckland she had left behind. Her medium: weathered discards from the landscape. By her death in 1999, her work had been purchased for major public art collections in Australia, Aotearoa New Zealand and New York, and had been exhibited across Europe and Asia. Gascoigne's story is often cast in simple terms—an inspirational tale of an older woman 'finding herself’ later in life and gaining artistic acclaim. But the reality is much more complex and contingent. This biography explores Gascoigne’s achievement of her ‘own sort of heaven’ through the frame of the narrative she told once she had gained fame, using a series of interviews she gave from 1980 to 1998. It revolves around her frequently stated sense of feeling an outsider, her belief that artists are born not made, and other factors central to the development and impact of her work. Migrating to Australia from New Zealand in 1943, Gascoigne experienced the dramatic social changes of the 1960s and 1970s and benefited from the growth of cultural life in Canberra, a developing Australian art industry, and changing conceptions of aesthetic beauty. 2024-10-26T04:20:10Z 2024-10-26T04:20:10Z 2024-10-25T09:40:16Z 2024 book ONIX_20241025_9781760466565_7 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/93969 9781760466565 9781760466558 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/146895 eng Biography Series open access image/jpeg Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/93969/1/book.pdf ANU Press ANU Press 10.22459/MOSH.2024 10.22459/MOSH.2024 975ba519-3ce2-4517-95bf-b847729fbcf1 9781760466565 9781760466558 ANU Press 410 Canberra open access |
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