Rosalie Gascoigne is a New Zealand born artist, born in 1917 in Auckland and died in 1999.
Wife astronomer Ben Gascoigne is the Mount Stromlo Observatory near Canberra that she developed her intense love of the Australian landscape. Came to live in the midst of these vast territories of the early years of her marriage, space and freedom she has discovered it not only offered a great contrast with the restrictions of his life in Auckland where she had experienced a difficult childhood, but also necessary to escape a housewife in the 1950s, stuck in a tedious daily domesticity, especially in a very isolated environment.
His interest in developing his art from materials she found around her was born of a deep desire to surround himself with beauty. It was much later, almost by accident that it was "discovered" and was able to develop his work as presented today and collected by art critics.
She worked primarily on the interplay of colors and materials recovery she reconstructs the tenant in small plates, wooden boxes of any kind, or old corrugated cartons packaging ... or she assembles like a game cube.
Juxtapositions random reconstructions of wild and urban landscapes, between allusion and illusion, it is inspired by the vision favored by painters Aborigines show the earth from above. It borrows
their own perspective of looking and is quite close in the bottom of the design they have vibration the world.
unions Schweppes example with their typical yellow, are decomposed into a graphical game where letters reinterpreted symbols refer to Aborigines as the U representing women initiated or participants in a religious ceremony.
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