Flash art

Rosalie Gascoigne rose to prominence in the late 1970s when she began exhibiting assemblages made from found objects and weathered materials that she collected from the environment surrounding her home in Canberra where she lived for more than fifty years. This work is an important early example of Gascoigne’s use of retro-reflective road signs which she cut up and rearranged to form poetic compositions based around the grid - a technique that became a hallmark of her art and which she continued to use until 1999.

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