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| House Names for DHSVAD |
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| The
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| Rosalie Gascoigne’s art career started unusually late. She first exhibited in 1974 at the age of 57. She received no formal art training and often said that she had a fifty year apprenticeship in ‘looking’. Gascoigne arrived in Australia from New Zealand in 1943. She spent 17 years living on the remote, stony slopes of Mount Stromolo and in the surrounding tablelands of the Monaro wheat belt. This environment, which she once described as ‘all air, all light, all space and all understatement’ was crucial to the development of her art. This work, Metropolis, uses retro-reflective road signs which are a signature of Gascoigne’s later work. Large in size, the composition is loosely organised on the formart of a grid. However, rather than giving a sense of order, the overlapping layers confound with their competing vertical and horizontal lines. The effect is one of oncoming traffic and noise, of disjunction rather than coherence. The contrast of yellow and black contributes to the visual overload, its visual busyness transporting us to the metropolis of its title. |
Rosalie GASCOIGNE |
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| Gascoigne's house colour is blue. Student surnames from A-G | ||
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| Emily Kam Kngwarry was an Anmatyerr woman, living in Utopia, north east of Alice Springs, in the Northern Territory. Kngwarry took up paintng in her 70s when the Papunya movement reached the desert community of Utopia. In the eight years before her death she produced a staggering 3,000 artworks — almost one canvas a day. The Papunya movement, one of the most important in Australian art, began in the early 1970s when Aboriginal artists living at the government settlement of Papunya, west of Alice Springs, began to make portable paintings using acrylic paints and traditional symbols from ceremonial sand drawings, ground and body painting. Kngwarry is considered a leading figure of this movement due to her ‘abstract’ gestural style and output of works. Her paintings express the ancestral power in the landscape through the use of symbols from the Dreaming, strong gestural marks and bright colour. |
Emily Kam KNGWARRY |
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| Kngwarry house colour is green. Student surnames from H-L | ||
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| Sidney Nolan was born in Melbourne on 22 April 1917. From 1934 he studied intermittently at the National Gallery Art School in Melbourne, before leaving for Paris in 1957 to study engraving and lithography under SW Hayter at Atelier 17. During the second world war Nolan was conscripted into the army and served at Dimboola in the Wimmera District of Victoria from 1942-5. In 1946 he began a series of paintings on the theme of the bush ranger Ned Kelly, and later painted personal interpretations of historical and legendary figures such as Eliza Fraser and Burke and Wills, in which he expressed his feeling for the country and the timelessness of the myths. From 1950 Nolan lived mainly in Britain and became Australia’s most internationally celebrated painter. He designed sets for ballet and opera and provided illustrations for books. He died in London on 28 November 1992, aged 75. |
Sidney NOLAN |
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| Nolan house colour is red. Student surnames from M-R | ||
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| Fred Williams trained at the National Gallery Art School in Melbourne before travelling to London to study. Returning to Australia in 1957, Williams adopted the Australian landscape as the central subject of his art, developing his own style by simplifying his subject matter into abstract forms. Red Landscape, depicts the unique Pilbara region of the North West of Western Australia. |
Fred WILLIAMS |
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| Williams house colour is yellow. Student surnames from S-Z | ||
