Artists, Materials and Method

Tracey Moffat

Pineapple Cannery 1978 was created as part of a series called First Jobs 2008. Moffat used a photograph of ladies working in a Queensland pineapple cannery. The series re-visits the unexciting jobs Moffat worked as a teenager and art student. To emphasise this point, Moffat has cheekily inserted her own face into each of the 12 photographs in the series. Moffat has used high-keyed pastel color on the original black and white photograph to replicate the look of a 1970's magazine illustration. These pastel pigments ad a certain cheer and brightness to an otherwise dreary environment. Moffat accomplished this by using "archival pigments on rice paper with a gell medium." http://www.roslynoxley9.com.au/artists/26/Tracey_Moffatt/1106/41168/ accessed 27.03.09

Rosaline Gascoigne

Gascoigne’s Dolly Boxes was created in 1976. The artwork is comprised of a number of 1960’s plastic dollies- armless, legless and pre-loved sitting in a row within a rectangular wooden box. The box itself was put together by Gascoigne from recycled woods she found at a tip near her home. The box is worn and decayed but it’s three sides still create a strong hard enclosure for the dolls within. It is unclear where Gascoigne found the dollies but they are definitely not new. Although made by the same identical cast, each dolly is slightly different, showing a progressive rate of deterioration, or one might say ‘love.’