Material Choice Of Fiona Hall and Rosalie Gascoigne's work
Fiona Hall is a contemporary artist, who focuses on the theme of present and past through the use of non- traditional materials and everyday materials. Hall uses material and media as a metaphor in many of her artworks. Her selection and manipulation of media is loaded with symbolic meaning. Hall’s work is concerned with social, political and cultural issues that relate to the contemporary world. These make her work meaningful and challenge the viewer. Hall's work, Mourning Chorus (2007-08) is concerned with eleven extinct and endangered bird species which is represented by chemical, disposable plastic containers, animated with the carved and casted bird beaks. By using everyday materials, Hall connects the environment and human impact on the earth together. Hall wants to make the viewer aware of the surrounding environment and the destruction affected on the environment by the chemicals we use daily. Hall allows the viewer to think and reflect on the viewer’s social and environmental responsibility towards the world.
Rosalie Gascoigne was a New Zealander-Australian sculptor who mostly used found objects in her artwork to express her ideas towards the world. In Gascoigne's work, she uses disposable, discarded and unusual materials sch as iron, wood, grass, road sign, wires and shells. Gascoigne's artwork, Grass Rack(1977) is made up of seventeen dried grass picked in the paddock which are hanging upside down on the branch. Gascoigne used found material because 'They've had the sun, they've had the rain, it's real stuff, it's not like stuff you buy from a hardware shop', they are all original and unique. Gascoigne's choice of material symbolises the issue in the world which allows us to think and reflect. Gascoigne applies a non traditional approach to media by choosing banal, found objects from everyday life and adapting art and sculpture techniques to these. Gascoigne's work is loaded with symbolic meaning and visual code that gives the viewer to pause and think of the issue in the world.
Rosalie Gascoigne was a New Zealander-Australian sculptor who mostly used found objects in her artwork to express her ideas towards the world. In Gascoigne's work, she uses disposable, discarded and unusual materials sch as iron, wood, grass, road sign, wires and shells. Gascoigne's artwork, Grass Rack(1977) is made up of seventeen dried grass picked in the paddock which are hanging upside down on the branch. Gascoigne used found material because 'They've had the sun, they've had the rain, it's real stuff, it's not like stuff you buy from a hardware shop', they are all original and unique. Gascoigne's choice of material symbolises the issue in the world which allows us to think and reflect. Gascoigne applies a non traditional approach to media by choosing banal, found objects from everyday life and adapting art and sculpture techniques to these. Gascoigne's work is loaded with symbolic meaning and visual code that gives the viewer to pause and think of the issue in the world.
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