Survey 2: Rosalie Gascoigne

The NGV’s Survey series profiled the work of a prominent contemporary Australian artist. From 1978 to 1981, sixteen artists had a Survey exhibition at the NGV.

Rosalie Gascoigne presents a series of assemblages consisting mainly of materials found in her wanderings in and around Canberra. These assemblages represent Gascoigne’s imagery and artistic magic. The artist turns old beer cans, sardine tins, broken plates and labels into iconlike sculptures, thus imbuing new life and meaning into old, discarded items; creating, as it were, a new existence of their own.

Sourced from: Adapted from “Images and Imagination” The Australian Jewish News, 12 May 1978, p. 14