Foreign Affairs
Foreign Affairs
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Artist
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Production Date
1994
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Medium
sawn wood on craftboard
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Size
778 x 772 mm
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Credit
Chartwell Collection, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, 1995
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Accession Number
C1995/1/4
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Accession Date
May 1995
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Department
International Art
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Classification
Object
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Collection
Chartwell
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Subjects
abstraction, text, found objects
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Description
Rosalie Gascoigne’s meditative assemblages carry the imprint of their place of construction: the wide tablelands near Canberra she describes as ‘all air, all light, all space, all understatement’. Choosing to work with materials that ‘have had sun and wind on them’, Gascoigne’s grids of subtly weathered wood evoke the partitioning and cultivation of the land. Combining order and repetition with soft irregularities, her spare abstract compositions create a sense of the landscape as a complex network of natural and cultural processes.
