Rosalie GASCOIGNE   1917  - 1999

Rosalie Gascoigne’s artistic practice developed from her love of collecting wild flowers, shells, stones and other natural objects. Her scrapbooks overflowed with an assortment of cuttings. Later her collecting lead to acquiring bits and pieces of machinery and other discarded materials. After studying Ikebana, the Japanese arts of flower arranging, she began to organise other objects that interested her, creating syntheses of pictorial form from found objects. Her arrangements of corrugated iron and wooden off-cuts have strong resonances with the Australian bush and pioneer heritage. Her first exhibition was held in Canberra at the Macquarie Galleries in 1974. Since then she has gained acclaim for her installations in exhibitions both in Australia and abroad.

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