Rosalie Gascoigne, Party Piece, 1988. retro-reflective road signs on plywood, 108 × 83.5cmRosalie Gascoigne's first exhibited her work in 1974 when she was 57. She was just of the age to have completed a BA at Auckland University before the war started after which she found herself a New Zealand war-bride married to an Australian astronomer and living in a remote scientific community north of Canberra. Her work is made of salvaged materials, notably, road signs and packing crates, and later, construction lumber such as formwork, cut into thin slices and assembled as flat pieces.
For all the robustness of the raw, salvaged materials, the precision with which they are cut and trimmed is incredibly delicate.
Roslyn Oxley 9 shows a wide range of her work on their website.
Rosalie Gascoigne. White City, 1993/94. wood on craftboard 110.5 × 108cm