Rosalie Gascoigne

• Materials used by Gascoigne


  • Sawn Wood
  • Corrugated Iron
  • Enamelware
  • Wire
  • Retro-Reflective Traffic Signs
  • Linoleum
  • Builder’s Form Board
  • Everyday Items (collected)
  • Dolls
  • Clay
  • Grass
  • Bones
  • Feathers
  • Shells
• Gascoigne was not interested in new materials
• Gascoigne showed a preference towards weathered and worn materials that revealed the effects of nature, time and use
• Visual qualities associated with Gascoigne's materials


  Distinctive and poetic assemblages<|>Beauty in overlooked things<|>Represent parts of the world around her
• Text has been an important element of Gascoigne’s work
• Gascoigne's later works featured meditative, elegiac compositions of white or earth-brown panels
• Gascoigne's process of collecting materials


  Travelling around the countryside<|>Storing materials in her home/studio<|>Working intuitively without preliminary drawings
• The process of transforming found materials into artworks was one of making the mood, experience and sensation of the landscape visible
• Rosalie Gascoigne: '“I can’t paint, I can’t draw and I can’t weld, but I can see an empty space and I know what to put in it.”'
• Gascoigne’s studio is located in her home in Auckland, New Zealand
• Gascoigne's studio

  • Organised chaos
  • Large pieces of wood and cardboard
  • Artworks scattered for inspiration
• Gascoigne's materials are stored in a variety of ways
• Gascoigne's process of creating artworks

  Putting together items made of various materials<|>Working intuitively<|>Not utilising preliminary sketches
• Gascoigne relocated to the rural community of Mount Stromlo Observatory in 1943
• Gascoigne's conceptual practice

  Made no preliminary plans<|>Worked intuitively<|>Inspired by the look and feel of materials
• Gazette (1994) is an artwork by Rosalie Gascoigne
• Gazette (1994) media


  Mixed media<|>Synthetic polymer paint on sawn wood on plywood
• Dimensions of Gazette (1994) are 77.6 x 59.5 cm
• Gascoigne's conceptual practice in Gazette

  Cutting, organising, and combining commonplace items<|>Evoking nostalgia through materials
• Rosalie Gascoigne: '“I am not making pictures, I make feelings. I want to make art without telling a story; it must be allusive, lyrical.”'
• Rosalie Gascoigne: '“My concerns are as much with my materials as with the work I make of it. They both have to satisfy me ... I look for things that have been somewhere, done something. Second-hand materials aren’t deliberate; they have had sun and wind on them.”'