The artists' materials

"Georgia O’Keefe" 2005 - Tracey Moffatt

For the ‘Under the Sign of Scorpio’ 2005 exhibition, Tracey Moffatt took photos of herself dressed as 40 prominent women born under the star sign of Scorpio. This particular print is of Moffatt costumed as Georgia O’Keefe - a well-known female artist of the 20th Century. The photographs were staged and worked on in her New York apartment over the 2005 winter by Moffatt and her assistant. An ordinary digital camera was used. The photographs were then edited in Photoshop and prints were editioned on rag paper. Rag paper is a fine art paper that is made of either cotton or fabric and wood fibres, is strong and is used for archiving. An edition is a series of prints produced of the one image. The edition for this image was 21.


"Untitled" - Rosalie Gascoigne

This is an untitled piece of work from a post-humus exhibition of Rosalie Gascoigne’s that included works from the early 80s until 1997. Gascoigne’s methods centre on the assemblage of found materials into ordered geometric compositions. Gascoigne has historically used natural objects; I was only aware of her works using man-made materials such as weathered wood panels, corrugated iron and other industrial materials. Gascoigne does not paint or draw and her approach to work is said to have been influenced by her history as an expert on ikebana (flower arranging). This image is not a major work of Gascoigne’s and there is very little information about it except that this particular work is made from torn linoleum on plywood.

Articles/websites referred to for blog:
'Landscape of Shards' Felicity Fenner, Art in America (Feb 1999)
'Rosalie Gascoigne: Great blond paddocks' Bronwyn Oliver Art & Australia
'Artist's choice: Rosalie Gascoigne Earth 9' Jenny Sages Art & Australia
'Reading Tracey Moffatt' Andrea Stretton Art & Australia
'The secret lives of Tracy Moffatt - cover story' Samantha Selinger-Morris Sydney Morning Herald 30/07/05.
http://www.roslynoxley9.com.au/news/releases/2005/07/10/94/
http://www.roslynoxley9.com.au/news/releases/2004/04/22/67/