Square
1972
Medium
photo-etching and etching
Measurements
46.2 × 36.7 cm (image) 49.0 × 39.4 cm (plate) 76.0 × 56.8 cm (sheet)
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Purchased, 1973
© Courtesy of the artist
Gallery location
Special Exhibitions Gallery
Ground Level, NGV International
About this work
In the 1970s, Australian artist Bea Maddock embraced the photo-etching process, which incorporates pen and ink. She regularly used found images as the basis for these works. In Square, Maddock overlaid an image of people in a crowd, taken from ‘a book on movement of people in cities’, with a grid structure. As she said, ‘The actual grid comes from the windows in the National Gallery School, Victorian College of the Arts ... the windows had little grills on them ... and so they got drawn in because that’s how I saw the world – through those windows.’
Artwork Details
Place/s of Execution
Melbourne, Victoria
Catalogue/s Raisonné
Thomas 770
Edition
ed. 10/10
Inscription
inscribed in pencil l.l.: 10/10
inscribed in pencil l.c.: " Square "
inscribed in pencil l.r.: Bea. Maddock '72
Accession Number
P24-1973
Departments
Australian Prints / Australian Prints & Drawings
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