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February 7: Marianna de Cola. 'SHIFT. Newfoundland's South' in  On Site 24: migration  Fall, 2010


Marianna de Cola,  MArch (Waterloo) wrote her thesis,  80 Fathoms Deep, on Newfoundland's relationship with the sea, to its island status and its consequent cultural isolation, to its reliance on fishing and more recently oil. But it is also one of tides - of prosperity and loss, migration and resettlement, of occupation and erasure.  Her ongoing research focuses on infrastructure, particularly oceanic systems, and its intersection within the cultural and ecological environment.

This article, for On Site 24: migration, is part of her thesis.  Her work can be seen on ISSUU here.

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Rosalie Gascoigne

DateThursday, August 12, 2010 at 6:54AM

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

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