I made it back to the ANU Drill Hall last week for another drawing session. This time I focussed on Rosalie Gascoigne’s 1986 installation Inland Sea.
My eye was captured by the rythmic interaction of the pieces of corrugated iron…
and then by the contrast of solid shadow and line.
Unfortunately I had to leave it there as my parking meter only allowed for an hours drawing!
Well I made the front page of the City Chronicle, by the usual method of being in the right place at the right time. In this case I was printing at Megalo Print Studio and Gallery when the team from the Chronicle turned up to write about the ongoing issue of the use of the Fitters Workshop.
Eleesa Lee took the photograph.
The collage and paper works of Gracia Haby and Louise Jennison are currently showing at the LaTrobe Regional Gallery (138 Commercial Road, Morwell) untill Sunday 1 April 2012.
As I see no likelihood of getting to see this show I was happy to ‘visit’ the show via Gracia and Louise’s tumblr page.
The one thing I find odd is that the beautiful birds that grace the wall of the exhibition appear to be rather obviously nailed to the wall – I think it really detracts from the delicacy of the work. [Please read Gracia’s comment which explains the choice of hanging method].
Thanks to the Craft Victoria Craft Blog for drawing this work to my attention.
These drawings were made at the Spirit in the Land exhibition, which is currently on at the ANU Drill Hall Gallery until 1 April (opening hours, Wednesday to Sunday 12.00 to 5.00pm).
I really enjoyed this exhibition, which gives a succinct summary of some of Australia’s best landscape artists, both Indigenous and non-Indigenous. I loved seeing Rosalie Gascoigne and Rover Thomas rubbing artistic shoulders. In the side room at the back right of the gallery is a great display of the work of Lorraine Connelly-Northey (Waradgerie and Irish background), whose re-interpretation of traditional Indigenous forms is continually innovative and exciting.
Along one wall hang a series of Narrbongs, (string bags or the Waradgerie word for the pouch of a marsupial) and in the middle of the room are ‘bark’ canoes.
Not only are the works themselves exciting to look at, but the shadows they cast are almost equally interesting.
This Narrbong is made of wire and a piece of pressed tin
and this one of rusted fencing wire.
I’m planning to go back and do more drawings soon.
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