Inland sea
(1986)
- Artist/s name
- Rosalie GASCOIGNE
- Medium
- weathered painted corrugated iron, wire
- Measurements
- (a-ff) 39.1 x 325.0 x 355.5 cm (variable) (installation)
- Accession Number
- S4.a-ff-1993
- Credit Line
- National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Purchased, 1993
© Rosalie Gascoigne Estate/Licensed by VISCOPY, Australia - Gallery Location
- Gallery 14
Level 3, NGV Australia
The art of Rosalie Gascoigne has a unique place in the rich landscape tradition in Australian art. While painting has been the dominant art form in this tradition, Gascoigne worked in assemblage and installation, using natural and man-made materials collected from the landscape. Her works capture the essence of the landscape’s topography, space, air and vegetation, and the daily and seasonal natural rhythms of nature in compositions that are often startling in their refined simplicity.
Inland sea comprises 16 pieces of weathered, painted corrugated iron set at various heights on wire bases. Their fragmented and irregular shapes evoke the contracting mud surface of an inland lake in the Australian outback.
