Close owly
1990
from The readymade boomerang portfolio 1990
- Medium
- colour screenprint
- Measurements
- 76.0 × 49.8 cm (image) 100.4 × 70.0 cm (sheet)
- Edition
- ed. 19/60
- Printing/Publishing
- printed by Studio One; published by René Block
- Inscription
- inscribed in pencil l.r.: Rosalie Gascoigne '90
inscribed in pencil l.l.: 19/60 - Accession Number
- P7.7-1991
- Departments
- Australian Prints / Australian Prints & Drawings
- Credit Line
- National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Purchased through The Art Foundation of Victoria with the assistance of Mr Philip Russell, Fellow, 1991
© Rosalie Gascoigne Estate/Licensed by Copyright Agency, Australia
This digital record has been made available on NGV Collection Online through the generous support of the Joe White Bequest - Gallery location
- Not on display
- About this work
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Rosalie Gascoigne is best known for her distinctive sculptural assemblages made from bright-yellow road signs. When cut up and reassembled, words and numbers are fragmented and create a new poetic collage. Close owly is a screenprint based on these sculptural pieces. The title comes from the fragments of the words ‘closed’ and ‘slowly’, and Gascoigne has reproduced the scratches and dents of the original road signs. The print was made for The Readymade Boomerang portfolio, which was commissioned as part of the eighth Sydney Biennale in 1990 and featured works by twenty-one Australian and international artists.
