Survey 2: Rosalie Gascoigne
NGV International
28 Apr – 4 Jun 78
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.
Source: Text adapted from ‘Images and Imagination’ in The Australian Jewish News, 12 May 1978, p. 14.
The NGV’s Survey series of exhibitions, curated by Robert Lindsay, were exhibited in a specially adapted area close to the Gallery Society Lounge. Each exhibition concentrated on one contemporary Australian artist and aimed to present a comprehensive survey of their work. Later exhibitions included group shows based on a theme. From 1978 to 1981, there were sixteen Survey exhibitions at the NGV.
Survey 2: Rosalie Gascoigne 1978. 10 minute colour video documentary on the artist and her work, made by the National Gallery of Victoria and the Media Resource Centre, Melbourne.