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Rosalie Gascoigne

Rosalie Gascoigne explains why she was well into her fifties before her hauntingly beautiful evocations of the Australian landscape propelled her to international fame.
Series : Australian Biography Series 7 | Year : 1999 | Total Duration : 26 Minutes | Producer : Robin Hughes
Director : Robin Hughes |
Interview Rosalie Gascoigne talking about self respect in a show. Pan across artwork in gallery, wall of sides from old crates. Super. Man walks through gallery past yellow wall with black writing. Sculptured wall with contemporary / modern shapes. Interview Rosalie commenting that her family liked brains.
Access No. 131999 | 39 secs | 1990s | ACT, Australia | © ABC Television | Colour |
Still b&w photograph Rosalie Gascoigne as young child with her younger brother. B&W photo her older sister as young girl. Interview Rosalie Gascoigne talking about her older sister. B&W sepia photo Rosalie as young girl. Detail of photo showing her touching fingers together. Interview Rosalie about childhood and broken home. B&W photo Rosalie's mother smiling. B&W photo of her father. Interview about breakup of parents' marriage. B&W photo of her mother as a school teacher. Interview about her mother's wish to keep up appearances.
Access No. 132000 | 1 min 47 secs | Various | ACT, Australia | © Rosalie Gascoigne | Colour |
Still b&w photograph smiling Rosalie Gascoigne as young woman. Interview Rosalie Gascoigne talking about bad times in New Zealand. B&W photo Rosalie and friends in school uniform. Detail photo Rosalie. Interview (1999) about making things, arranging flowers as a school girl. B&W photo Rosalie in school uniform. Interview. B&W photo Rosalie as young woman lying on grass. Interview Rosalie about never having had self confidence.
Access No. 132001 | 1 min 21 secs | Various | ACT, Australia; New Zealand | © Rosalie Gascoigne | Colour |
Still colour photograph Rosalie Gascoigne with husband, laughing. Interview Rosalie Gascoigne talking about lack of confidence, 1999. B&W photo Rosalie as young woman, smiling. Interview . B&W photo pull back from Rosalie to reveal group of friends surrounding her. Interview about need to be special. B&W portrait photo Rosalie in academic cap and gown. B&W photo Ben Gascoigne standing on footbridge. B&W photo Gascoignes on their wedding day.
Access No. 132002 | 1 min 19 secs | Various | ACT, Australia | © Rosalie Gascoigne | Colour |
Interview Rosalie Gascoigne talking about living in cold house in Canberra, 1999. Still b&w photograph house surrounded by snow and wintry trees. Interview. B&W photo pan across snowy landscape to Observatory. Interview Rosalie about peoples' expectations of her as an astronomer's wife. B&W photo Rosalie and husband Ben with young child. Interview about making a quilt during time in Canberra. B&W photo organic sculpture made from tree branch. Interview about reactions to her pieces displayed in home. B&W photo Rosalie holding baby. B&W photo Rosalie with young son.
Access No. 132003 | 1 min 47 secs | Various | ACT, Australia | © Rosalie Gascoigne | Colour |
Interview Rosalie Gascoigne talking about not conforming to be a good housewife and trying to cover it up, 1999. Archival b&w footage vs Mount Stromlo Observatory. Interview Rosalie about love of landscape around Canberra.
Access No. 132004 | 44 secs | Various | Canberra, ACT, Australia | © Film World | Colour |
Still b&w photograph Rosalie Gascoigne standing with pram. B&W photo wide shot Mount Stromlo area. Interview Rosalie talking about looking for differences in pine trees,, 1999.
Access No. 132005 | 17 secs | Various | Canberra, ACT, Australia | © Rosalie Gascoigne | Colour |
Archival colour footage pan across trees to observatory dome. WS bushland and distant hills, dead tree in F/G. WS bushland and distant countryside.
Access No. 132006 | 11 secs | Unknown | ACT, Australia | © ABC Television | Colour |
Interview Rosalie Gascoigne talking about looking at the land rather than the stars of which she had no knowledge, 1999. Still b&w photograph Ben Gascoigne and daughter, Hester. B&W photo Rosalie with three children, Martin, Thomas (Toss) and baby Hester.
Access No. 132007 | 17 secs | Various | ACT, Australia | © Rosalie Gascoigne | Colour |
Interview Rosalie Gascoigne talking about isolation, 1999. Archival colour footage travelling shot POV car silhouetted pine trees and power lines against white clouds in blue afternoon sky. Interview Rosalie about local curiosity if a car was coming.
Access No. 132008 | 28 secs | Various | ACT, Australia | © ABC Television | Colour |
Still colour photograph Rosalie Gascoigne standing behind sculpture made of corrugated iron attached to wooden frame. Super: ÒPink WindowÓ. Detail photo CU corrugated iron sheet pan to Rosalie. Interview Rosalie talking about comparisons of living in New Zealand and Australia, restrictions of New Zealand, 1999.
Access No. 132009 | 1 min 24 secs | 1990s | ACT, Australia | © National Gallery of Australia | Colour |
Archival colour footage pan right across stark countryside near Canberra, low cloud on distant hills.
Access No. 132010 | 18 secs | Unknown | ACT, Australia | © ABC Television | Colour |
Still colour photograph Rosalie Gascoigne arranging flowers in jug atop stack of petrol cans / tins, outside. Interview Rosalie talking about lack of formal training as an artist, apart from the Sugetsu School of Ikebana., 1999
Access No. 132011 | 18 secs | Various | ACT, Australia | © National Gallery of Australia | Colour |
Still colour photograph Ikebana flower arrangement against white B/G. Interview Rosalie Gascoigne talking about discovering she was very good at flower arranging, 1999. Colour photo Ikebana sculpture of pipe and wire with single flower on top against a red B/G. Interview about not finding satisfaction.
Access No. 132012 | 25 secs | Various | ACT, Australia | © Rosalie Gascoigne | Colour |
Still b&w photograph pan up Ikebana sculpture being worked on by artist Rosalie Gascoigne.
Access No. 132013 | 7 secs | 1960s | Australia | © Federal Capital Press | B&W |
Still colour photograph iron sculpture against brick wall. Super: ÒMetal BeeÓ. Colour photo iron sculpture against black B/G. Super: ÒAdam & EveÓ. Interview Rosalie Gascoigne talking about having chance as a friend, 1999.
Access No. 132014 | 22 secs | Various | ACT, Australia | © Rosalie Gascoigne | Colour |
Still b&w photograph Jim Mollison of the National Art Gallery 1977-1989 standing in front of ÒBlue PolesÓ painting. Super. Interview Rosalie Gascoigne talking about Jim Mollison putting her work in the Philip Morris collection for young aspiring artists,1999.
Access No. 132015 | 24 secs | Various | Canberra, ACT, Australia | © National Gallery of Australia | Colour |
Still b&w photograph sculpture of buckets of balls set in wooden box frames. Super: ÒUntitledÓ. Detail photo. Interview Rosalie Gascoigne talking about surprise at being accepted by Jim Mollison as an artist and her friendship with him. Colour photo sculpture made of branches.
Access No. 132016 | 39 secs | 1990s | ACT, Australia | © Rosalie Gascoigne | Colour |
Interview Rosalie Gascoigne talking about comments on her work by James Mollison. Still b&w photograph of artist Michael Taylor.
Access No. 132017 | 14 secs | 1990s | Australia | © National Library of Australia | Colour |
Still b&w photograph artists Rosalie Gascoigne and Michael Taylor. Interview Rosalie Gascoigne talking about relationship with Michael Taylor. B&W photo Rosalie wearing black-framed glasses. Interview about entering Artists' Choice Show in Sydney. Colour photo sculpture on wood. Super: ÒLying PieceÓ. Colour photo wooden sculpture with doll's head against black B/G. Super: ÒSide ShowÓ. Sculpture of dolls in boxes against black B/G. Super: ÒDolly BoxÓ. Detail of ÒDolly BoxÓ. pan across dolls' heads.
Access No. 132018 | 1 min 4 secs | 1990s | Australia | © Rosalie Gascoigne | Colour |
Interview Rosalie Gascoigne talking about successful shows at various galleries and being offered a survey show in Victoria. Survey program cover with photo of Rosalie against black B/G. Interview about going to Venice. Venice Biennale poster against black B/G. Interview about finding material for her work.
Access No. 132019 | 55 secs | 1990s | © Rosalie Gascoigne | Colour |
Archival colour footage Rosalie Gascoigne in green field / paddock picking something up and examining it, walking along with hat in hand. Rosalie rummaging in rubbish dump. Pan of piles of material in studio to Rosalie walking in to studio and taking iron stand off bench. Interview Rosalie talking about vitality in materials, 1999. Colour footage Rosalie in studio putting iron stand under bench. VS different materials piled / stacked up in studio.
Access No. 132020 | 1 min 10 secs | Various | ACT, Australia | © ABC Television | Colour |
Interview Rosalie Gascoigne talking about Wordsworth's words Òemotion recollected in tranquilityÓ. One of Rosalie's box sculptures with dolls and teapots, jug. Super: ÒTea PartyÓ.
Access No. 132021 | 24 secs | 1990s | Australia | © Rosalie Gascoigne | Colour |
Sculpture installation by Rosalie Gascoigne laid out on floor. Super: ÒSet UpÓ. Detail showing colanders and pots on wooden blocks at floor level. People walking around installation / exhibit. Interview Rosalie Gascoigne talking about freedom awarded to an artist.
Access No. 132022 | 33 secs | 1990s | Australia | © Art Gallery of New South Wales | Colour |
Archival colour footage artwork by Rosalie Gascoigne in gallery. Detail pan of artwork made of drinks packing crates. Interior Art Gallery of NSW. Various wall art by Rosalie Gascoigne. Pan of detail of wood artwork with modern shapes. Interview Rosalie Gascoigne talking about working in grids. Archival colour footage people walking around gallery exhibition.
Access No. 132023 | 59 secs | Various | Australia | © ABC Television | Colour |
Artwork installation by Rosalie Gascoigne. Super: ÒThe CropÓ. Wall artwork. Super: ÒSkylightÓ. Wall artwork. Super: ÒShorelineÓ. Interview Rosalie Gascoigne talking about her husband Ben's lack of understanding of her passion, 1999. VS Rosalie cutting piece of wood with bandsaw. Pan to materials piled on floor. Interview about her success when in her fifties and setting goals.
Access No. 132024 | 2 mins 8 secs | Various | Australia | © Art Gallery of New South Wales | Colour |
Still colour photograph Rosalie Gascoigne standing in front of one of her artworks with two men. Super: ÒMonaroÓ.
Access No. 132025 | 6 secs | 1990s | Australia | © Rosalie Gascoigne | Colour |
Pan of detail of artwork by Rosalie Gascoigne titled ÒMonaroÓ, black lettering on yellow background. Interview Rosalie Gascoigne talking about sticking with limitations, 1999. Archival colour footage countryside, cows on hillside in F/G. White cockatoo in flight, pine trees in B/G. Various tracks around gallery exhibition of artworks. Interview Rosalie Gascoigne talking about the ideal in her work and the admiration of nature. Archival colour footage flat countryside with distant trees. MS trees in paddock. LS trees in open valley.
Access No. 132026 | 1 min 21 secs | Various | © ABC Television | Colour |
Wall artwork by Rosalie Gascoigne against black B/G. Super: ÒEdenÓ.
Access No. 132027 | 9 secs | 1990s | Australia | © Art Gallery of New South Wales | Colour |
Archival colour footage Rosalie Gascoigne walking beside Lake George, hat in hand. Couple in gallery observe Rosalie's work ÒMonaroÓ. Woman walks past artwork. WS dilapidated fence by Lake George. Green paddock, grass waving. Sun shining through silhouette of grasses. Interview Rosalie Gascoigne talking about having no sympathy for people who feel they have to go elsewhere to paint, 1999. Rosalie's hands arranging small blocks of wood. Tilt up Rosalie at bench. VS arranging pieces of cut wood. Interview about ability to centre things. CU wooden blocks arranged together.
Access No. 132028 | 1 min 53 secs | Various | ACT, Australia | © ABC Television | Colour |
Wooden wall artwork by Rosalie Gascoigne against white B/G. Super: ÒWattle StrikeÓ. Still colour photograph exhibit with corrugated iron. Super: ÒInland SeaÓ. Interview Rosalie Gascoigne talking about being aware of nature and gaining experience and having a continuing adventure.
Access No. 132029 | 1 min 6 secs | 1990s | Australia | © Art Gallery of New South Wales | Colour |