ROSALIE GASCOIGNE

Born Auckland, New Zealand, 1917
BA Auckland University 1937
Died Canberra 1999

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

Rosalie Gacoigne, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne

Rosalie Gascoigne, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney

Rosalie Gascoigne: Plain Air, Wellington City Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand

Rosalie Gascoigne - Plein Air, Gow/Langsford Gallery, Sydney

From the studio of Rosalie Gascoigne, Drill Hall Gallery, Australian National University, Canberra

Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney

Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney
Greenaway Art Gallery, Adelaide
Material as Landscape, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

Material as Landscape, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney

National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
Greenaway Art Gallery, Adelaide
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney
Pinacotheca Gallery, Melbourne

Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney

Pinacotheca Gallery, Melbourne

Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney

Pinacotheca Gallery, Melbourne

Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney

Pinacotheca Gallery, Melbourne

Pinacotheca Gallery, Melbourne

Fine Arts Gallery, University of Tasmania, Hobart

Pinacotheca Gallery, Melbourne

Rosalie Gascoigne, Sculpture 1975-1982, New Zealand touring exhibition

Pinacotheca Gallery, Melbourne

Ray Hughes Gallery, Brisbane

Survey 2: Rosalie Gascoigne, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne

Installations, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane

Gallery A, Sydney

Macquarie Galleries, Canberra

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

Lucky Town, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney

Glimpse: Inside Gold Coast City Art Gallery's Collection, Gold Coast City Art Gallery, Surfers Paradise, QLD

Tainted Love: Contemporary Developments in Landscape, Bendigo Art Gallery, Bendigo, Victoria, 3 June - 22 July (including All Summer Long)

Assembled: Works from the Holmes a Court Collection, Holmes a Court Gallery, Perth, 25 August -8 October 2006 (including Spring 1, 1982)

Revealing Secret Treasures: Women Artists from the Reg & Sally Richardson Collection, Mosman Art Gallery, Sydney

Home Sweet Home: Works from the Peter Fay collection, A National Gallery of Australia Travelling Exhibition, Academy Gallery, University of Tasmania, Launceston

MCA Unpacked II, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney

Home Sweet Home: Works from the Peter Fay collection, A National Gallery of Australia Travelling Exhibition, Canberra

Flagship: Australian Art in the National Gallery of Victoria, 1790 - 2000, The Ian Potter Centre, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne

Fieldwork: Australian Art 1968 - 2002, National Gallery of Victoria, Federation Square, Melbourne (November 2002 to February 2003)

Sublime:25 Years of the Wesfarmers Collection of Australian Art, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, Western Australia

The Big River Show, Wagga Wagga Art Gallery
The First 20 Years, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney

MCA Unpacked, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
The Art of Transformation, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

12th Biennale of Sydney, Object Gallery, Customs House, Sydney
All Stars 2000, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney
Monochromes, University Art Museum, University of Queensland, Brisbane

Toi Toi Toi, Museum Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany; Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki, New Zealand
Clemenger Art Award, Museum of Modern Art, Heide, Melbourne

Expanse: Aboriginalities, spatialities and the politics of ecstasy, University of South Australia Art Museum, Adelaide
Every Other Day, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney

In Place (Out of Time), Museum of Modern Art Oxford, United Kingdom
Other Stories: Five Australian Artists, Asialink touring exhibition: Bangladesh Biennale, Dhaka; Kathmandu, Nepal; Colombo, Sri Lanka; Hanoi, Vietnam

In-Out, National Gallery of Australia, featuring Gascoigne's Feathered Fence, Suddenly the Lake, Afternoon and Sky Lark, June - September 1996

Islands, National Gallery of Australia
Spirit + Place: Art in Australia 1861 - 1996, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney

Island to Island Australia to Cheju, Cheju Pre-Biennale, Korea
In the Company of Women: 100 Years of Australian Women's Art from the Cruthers Collection, Perth Institute of Contemporary Art
Group Show, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery
Perceived Differently, Canberra National Sculpture Forum 95, Drill Hall Gallery, Australian National University, Canberra

Aussemblage, Auckland City Art Gallery; City Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand
Reinventing the Grid, Robert Lindsay Gallery, Melbourne
Circle, Line, Square - Aspects of Geometry, Campbelltown Regional Gallery
Romantisystem, Canberra Contemporary Art Space
100% Tracy, 24 Hour Art, NT Centre for Contemporary Art, Darwin

Clemenger Triennial Exhibition of Contemporary Australian Art, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Identities: Art from Australia to Taiwan, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taiwan; Wollongong City Gallery

Conversions: Festival of Installation Works, Canberra Contemporary Art Space, Canberra

Diverse Visions, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane
Cross Currents: Contemporary New Zealand and Australian Art from the Chartwell Collection, Waikato Museum of Art, Hamilton, New Zealand

Rosalie Gascoigne - Colin McCahon: Sense of Place, Ivan Dougherty
Gallery, Sydney; Ian Potter Gallery,Melbourne, Louise Pether curator
L'Ete Australian a Montpellier, Musée Fabre, Montpellier, France
Strange Harmony of Contrasts, Roslyn Oxley 9 Gallery, Sydney and touring, Nicholas Baume curator
Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, Mary Eagle curator
Eighth Biennale of Sydney: The Readymade Boomerang, Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney, René Block curator

What is Contemporary Art?,Rooseum, Malmö, Sweden, Dan Cameron curator

Australian Biennale 1988, Art Gallery of NSW (later at NGV), Nicholas Waterlow curator
Great Australian Art Exhibition, touring state galleries, Daniel Thomas curator

A New Romance, ANG, Drill Hall, Canberra
Third Australian Sculpture Triennial, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Contemporary Art in Australia, Museum of Contemporary Art, Brisbane
Australian Masters 1987, Solander Gallery, Canberra
Ten by Ten, 200 Gertrude Street, Melbourne, Lesley Dumbrell curator

Four Sculptors in Australia, Wollongong City Gallery, Wollongong (Augustine Dall'Ava, Peter Cole, Rosalie Gascoigne, Hossein Valamanesh)

Second Australian Sculpture Triennial, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne

Project 40 : Australian Artists at Venice and Kassel, National Gallery of Victoria and Art Gallery of New South Wales
Australian Perspecta 1983, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Continuum 83, Gallery Yamaguchi, Tokyo, Japan

Venice Biennale (Australian Pavilion with Peter Booth), Venice, Italy
The Philip Morris Arts Grant: Australian Art of the Last Ten Years, Melville Hall, Australian National University, Canberra

First Australian Sculpture Triennial, Preston Institute of Technology and Latrobe University, Melbourne
Australian Perspecta 1981, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney

Drawn and Quartered - Australian Contemporary Paperworks, Adelaide Festival Exhibition, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide

Third Biennale of Sydney: European Dialogue, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney

Australian National Gallery: Recent Acquisitions, Canberra Theatre Centre Gallery

Objects, Ray Hughes Gallery, Brisbane

Philip Morris Art Grant 3rd Annual Exhibition, Adelaide Festival Centre; Melbourne, Sydney

Artists' Choice, Gallery A, Sydney
Philip Morris Art Grant 2nd Annual Exhibition, City Square, Melbourne; Hyde Park, Sydney

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Australian National Gallery, Canberra
Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide
Art Gallery of West Australia, Perth
Artbank
Ballarat Art Gallery, Ballarat
Bendigo Art Gallery, Bendigo
Burnie Art Gallery, Burnie
Campbelltown City Art Gallery
Chartwell Trust, Hamilton, New Zealand
Geelong Art Gallery, Geelong

Latrobe Regional Gallery, Morwell, Victoria
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA
National Art Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
New Parliament House, Canberra
Newcastle Region Art Gallery, Newcastle
Phillip Morris Collection, Australian National Gallery
Preston Institute of Technology, Melbourne
Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery, Launceston
Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane
Queensland University Art Museum, Brisbane
Queensland University of Technology Art Collection
Wollongong City Gallery, Wollongong

BIBLIOGRAPHY

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Rosalie Gascoigne, exb. cat. National Gallery of Victoria, 2009

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William McAloon, home and away: contemporary Australian and New Zealand art from the Chartwell Collection, Auckland Art Gallery, 1999, p. 38-9, 135

Daniel Thomas, Natural artist revealed spirit of place, The Australian, Oct 29
John McDonald, A life littered with pure talent, The Sydney Morning Herald, Oct 27
Deborah Edwards, Rosalie Gascoigne: Obituary, The Sydney Morning Herald, Oct 28
Suzanne Brown, Leading artist dies, 82, The Age, October 27
Deborah Clarke, Rosalie Gascoigne: Obituary, Art Monthly Australia, no. 126, December 1999 - February 2000
Julie Ewington, Junk turns to truth, The Bulletin, November 9
Mary Eagle, Leading artist whose world glowed with emotion, New Zealand Times?, Auckland, NZ, November 7
Artist won kudos in two countries, NZ Herald, October 27
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Toi Toi Toi, catalogue, Museum Fridericianum, Kassel

Vici MacDonald, Rosalie Gascoigne, monograph, Regaro Press, Sydney
Brigid Shadbolt, All air, all light, all understatement: Rosalie Gascoigne's contested terrain, Broadsheet, 14, Vol. 27, No.1
Vivienne Webb, Rosalie Gascoigne: Material as Landscape, State of the Arts, March
Sebastian Smee, The prime of Rosalie Gascoigne, SMH Metro, April 3-9
Marion Halligan, Rosalie Gascoigne book review, Art Monthly Australia, May.
Diana Simmonds, Classical Gascoigne, The Bulletin, May 26
Adriana Alvarez, Landscapes For Your Mind, Revolver, 7 Sept

In Place: Out of Time, Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, exh cat., Rosalie Gascoigne
Material as Landscape, catalogue, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Gerrit Fokkema, A late developer, Good Weekend, Nov .15
Sebastian Smee, Be Here Now, Sydney Morning Herald, Metro, Nov.14-20
Antonia Carver, In Place (Out of Time): Contemporary Art in Australia, Flash Art, Nov.
Christopher Allen, Art in Australia: From Colonization to Postmodernism, Thames and Hudson, U.K.
John McDonald, Charms to Soothe a Savage Critic, Sydney Morning Herald, Nov. 29
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Joanna Mendelssohn, Avant-garde magic out of the chrysalis, The Australian, Nov. 21

Annie Taylor, `Rosalie Gascoigne', Womens Art Register Bulletin, No. 25 May
Donald Williams, Art Now, McGraw Hill Publications
Kate Davidson, Michael Desmond, Islands: Contemporary Installations(cat), National Gallery of Australia, pp 9-12

Joanna Mendelssohn, `Imants Tillers, Rosalie Gascoigne, Colin Lanceley', The Australian, 8 Sept, p.14
John McDonald, `Masonite man heads west', The Sydney Morning Herald, Spectrum 14A, 8 Sept.
`Island to Island Australia to Cheju' Cheju Pre-Biennale, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney

Anne Loxley, `The pleasures of the eye', Sydney Morning Herald, Apr.
Elwyn Lynn, `Colour brings life back to the square', The Australian, 23 Apr.
Jacques Delaruelle, `A different mode of thinking', The Sydney Review, May
Ewen MacDonald, `Threadbare Landscapes', Monument #3, 1994
Rachel Kent, Reinventing the Grid, cat. essay, Robert Lindsay Gallery, Oct

Harriet Edquist, `Material Matters - the Landscapes of Rosalie Gasgoigne', Binocular

Jacques Delaruelle, `The Place and the Formula', Art Monthly, May

John Massey,Diverse Visions, catalogue, p.14
Tracey Aubin, Adventures of a Cargo Carrier, The Bulletin, 30 Apr, pp. 110-111

Christopher Allen, Bill Robinson; Rosalie Gascoigne, Art Monthly, No. 27, Jan
L'ete Australien a Montepelier, print of 'Abundance', p. 87
Jacques Delaruelle, Strange Harmony and Magic Paintings, Art Monthly. Number 28, Mar
Catherine Lumby, Strange Harmony, in Tension 20, Mar, p. 60
Michael Desmond, Rosalie Gascoigne in Adelaide Biennale of Australian Art (curated Mary Eagle), pp. 42-43
Lynette Fern, Rosalie Gascoigne, Interior Architecture and Design, issue 23, pp. 180-185
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Ann Kirker, The Sculptor as Beachcomber: an Appraisal of RG's Assemblages, Art New Zealand 50, Autumn
Dan Cameron, What is Contemporary Art? Rooseum, Malmo, Sweden catalogue

Dan Cameron, Showdown at the Southern Cross, Artlink Vol 8 No 3 Sept

Rosalie Gascoigne, Diary, Australian Art Monthly, Sept
Mary Eagle, in catalogue for The Australian Biennale 1988, ABC Enterprises for the ABC and The Biennale of Sydney, p.132

Inner Journey, Vogue Living, Vol XX (1), p. 110-115
Graeme Sturgeon, exhibition catalogue for Four Sculptors in Australia, Wollongong City Gallery
Mildred Kirk, Different means to similar ends - Rosalie Gascoigne and Agnes Martin, Art and Australia Vol.24, No 4, p. 512

Mary Eagle, exhibition catalogue for New Work, Tasmanian School of Art, Hobart

Rosalie Gascoigne, Artist's Choice: Colin McCahon, Victory Over Death II, Art and Australia Vol 21,No 4, p. 490
Ken Scarlett in Encyclopaedia of Australian Sculpture, pp. 212-214

Ronald Miller, Requiescat in Venice, Art and Australia Vol 20 No 3, p. 329

Denise Levertov, Rosalie Gascoigne (poem), Meanjin 41, p. 20, also in Candles in Babylon New Directions Paperback 533, New York
Ian North, Signs of Light, catalogue for Venice Biennale, Visual Arts Board
Daniel Thomas, Australian National Gallery: An Introduction, published by Australian National Gallery, Canberra, p263,

Janine Burke, Art Network Issue 3 & 4, p. 26

Graeme Sturgeon: Recent Australian Sculpture, Meanjin 39, p. 212
Alison Carroll, Drawn and Quartered (exhibition catalogue), Art Gallery of South Australia

Janine Burke: Six Women Artists, Meanjin 38, p. 305, reprinted in Field of Vision, Penguin

Robert Lindsay, Survey 2 (exhibition catalogue), National Gallery of Victoria
Rosalie Gascoigne, Video Cassette for Survey 2, National Gallery of Victoria
Australian National Gallery, Some Recent Acquisitions of Australian Art

Mildred Kirk, Programme No. 13, Canberra

Fay Bottrell, The Artist Craftsmen in Australia, p. 38

Rosalie Gascoigne, Too Many Pine Trees, ABC talk