'My Own Sort of Heaven' : A Life of Rosalie Gascoigne

• Autore: Francis Nicola
• Pubblicazione: Canberra : , : ANU Press, , 2024; ©2024
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (410 pages)
• Disciplina: 759.993
• Soggetto topico: Artists - Australia
• Soggetto genere / forma: Biographies.
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- Foreword -- Acknowledgement of Country and recognition of mana whenua -- Notes about naming, copyright and placenames -- Words of gratitude -- Abbreviations -- List of figures -- Figure 0.0: Hester Gascoigne at home in Canberra, 2023. -- Figure 0.1: Rosalie exploring materials at a local rubbish tip, 1980s or 1990s. -- Figure 0.2: Items collected by Rosalie, at Hester Gascoigne's home, 2023. -- Figure 1.1: Rosalie's family tree. -- Figure 1.2: MacMurray Road, Remuera (left of picture) and Remuera Road on the right, looking north-west from Mt Hobson, 1920. -- Figure 1.3: Henry Hulbert Metcalfe, Rosalie's maternal grandfather. -- Figure 1.4: Rosalie's grandmother Jessie Alexander Metcalfe (née Hamilton) as a young woman. -- Figure 1.5: William Charles 'Whiskey' Walker, Rosalie's paternal grandfather. -- Figure 1.6: William Charles 'Whiskey' Walker and Annie Krauze Walker (née Franklin), Rosalie's paternal grandparents. -- Figure 1.7: St Mary's Cathedral, Parnell, where Marion and Stanley were married in 1915. -- Figure 1.8: Rosalie's father, Stanley Walker, in the remainder of his and Marion Metcalfe's wedding photo, 1915. -- Figure 1.9: Rosalie's uncle Harry, Henry Ernest 'Harry' Metcalfe. -- Figure 1.10: 'Death of Mr H. H. Metcalfe'. -- Figure 1.11: Headstone of Lieutenant Henry 'Harry' Ernest Metcalfe (4/1225), Faubourg D'Amiens Cemetery, France. -- Figure 1.12: Rosalie as a young child, c. 1922. -- Figure 2.1: Some of Rosalie's collection of yellow bone china cups and saucers and pieces of retro-reflective road signs left in her studio when she died. -- Figure 2.2: Jessie Metcalfe's death notice. -- Figure 2.3: Rosalie's Aunt Nellie (Ellen Mary Metcalfe) as a VAD nurse during World War I. -- Figure 2.4: A watercolour of a coastal scene near Auckland, painted by Nellie Metcalfe who may have learned to paint from her father. ; Figure 2.5: The brass container with which Rosalie won a prize at the Remuera Primary School fete in 1929 for an arrangement of buttercups with yellow ribbon, inspired by Aunt Nellie. -- Figure 2.6: Principal and staff of Epsom Girls' Grammar School, 1929, showing Marion Walker second from the right in the second row from the top. -- Figure 2.7: Close-up of Marion Walker (centre). -- Figure 2.8: Stanley's drink driving exploits exposed his family to shame through the publicity he attracted in newspapers around the country. -- Figure 2.9: From left, Rosalie, Daintry, Douglas and Stanley at 8 Halls Avenue, c. 1929. -- Figure 2.10: Picnickers and holidaymakers arriving at Waiheke Island, with the steamer ferry at the wharf, 1922. -- Figure 2.11: Sensationalist newspaper coverage of the Elise Walker case. -- Figure 2.12: Scallop shells collected by Rosalie. -- Figure 3.1: Rosalie (far right) with friends at Epsom Girls' Grammar School. -- Figure 3.2: Pupils outside Epsom Girls' Grammar School, 1926. -- Figure 3.3: Epsom Girls' Grammar School hall, 1930. -- Figure 3.4: Rosalie is in the centre row, fifth from the left in this class photo from Epsom Girls' Grammar School, c. 1932. -- Figure 3.5: Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland's Waitematā Harbour, including Rangitoto Island (centre distance) from Ōhinerau (Mt Hobson), May 1927. -- Figure 3.6: The Shell, a poem possibly written by Rosalie. -- Figure 3.7: Newspaper coverage of Bill Bayly's case, 1934. -- Figure 4.1: Auckland University College buildings, including clock tower and Princes Street in foreground, c. 1939-46. -- Figure 4.2: Arts Building, Auckland University College, viewed from Albert Park, c. 1930. -- Figure 4.3: Auckland University College Field Club, c. 1935-38. -- Figure 4.4: Auckland University College Field Club, c. 1935-38. -- Figure 4.5: 'Debutantes' Dance', Auckland Star, 7 May 1936, 12. ; Figure 4.6: Rosalie with her mother Marion Walker, Bob Foster and friends, Blenheim, 1934. -- Figure 4.7: 'Intoxicated', Auckland Star, 15 July 1936, 8. -- Figure 4.8: Rosalie on her graduation from Auckland University College, May 1939. -- Figure 4.9: Auckland Town Hall, c. 1940, the scene of Rosalie's graduation in May 1939. -- Figure 4.10: Auckland Girls' Grammar School, 1926. -- Figure 4.11: The chess set carved by Crimean prisoners of war in England that Rosalie bought in an Auckland antique shop as a wedding present for Ben. -- Figure 5.1: Auckland city and waterfront, 1947. -- Figure 5.2: Albert Park, 1940s, opposite Auckland University College. -- Figure 5.3: View from Mt Ainslie, Canberra, showing the subdivisions of Reid, Braddon, City Shops, Acton and Mt Stromlo. -- Figure 5.4: A poster, c. 1940, advertising the flying boat service on which Rosalie flew from Auckland to Sydney. -- Figure 5.5: Rosalie arrives at St John the Baptist Anglican Church with Clabon 'Cla' Allen who, in the absence of her family, had been asked to 'give her away'. -- Figure 5.6: St John the Baptist Anglican Church, Reid, the oldest church in Canberra, where Rosalie and Ben were married. -- Figure 5.7: Interior of St John the Baptist Church. -- Figure 5.8: Rosalie and Ben Gascoigne on their wedding day, 9 January 1943, outside the Allens' house on Mt Stromlo where their reception was held. -- Figure 5.9: 'Married at Canberra, Gascoigne-Walker', New Zealand Herald, 31 March 1943, 5. -- Figure 5.10: Residence 19, Mt Stromlo Observatory, Rosalie and Ben's home from January 1943 to 1960. -- Figure 5.11: Home again. Rosalie with baby Martin back on Mt Stromlo, February 1944. -- Figure 6.1: Ben at work, Mount Stromlo Observatory, 1948. -- Figure 6.2: New residences and bachelor quarters, Mt Stromlo, 1944. ; Figure 6.3: Rosalie and Martin, during a visit to Auckland c. 1944, with Rosalie's lifelong friend Marjorie Daniel. -- Figure 6.4: Marion Walker with Toss, Auckland, c. 1945. -- Figure 7.1: Aerial view of Mt Stromlo, 1956. -- Figure 7.2: View of Mt Stromlo Observatory, c. 1955. -- Figure 7.3: Rosalie with Marion Walker, Toss and Martin, c. 1948-49. -- Figure 7.4: Rosalie with Hester, c. late 1949 or early 1950. -- Figure 7.5: Rosalie with Toss, Hester and Martin on the back lawn at home, Mt Stromlo, 1950. -- Figure 7.6: Rosalie with Hester and Toss, Mt Stromlo, 1951. -- Figure 7.7: Martin, Hester and Toss Gascoigne, c. 1954. -- Figure 7.8: Detail of the quilt Rosalie made on Stromlo. -- Figure 7.9: Another detail of Rosalie's quilt. -- Figure 7.10: Australian Academy of Science, The Australian National University, Gordon Street and McCoy Circuit, Acton, ACT, 1959. -- Figure 8.1: Rosalie c. 1961. -- Figure 8.2. Rosalie's arrangement with driftwood and grasses at the Spring Flower Show in 1960. -- Figure 8.3: Rosalie's arrangement Forest Fire was the champion decorative exhibit at the Canberra Horticultural Show held at the Albert Hall in March 1964. -- Figure 8.4: The Ladies' Drawing Room, University House, ANU, c. 1955, with furniture designed by Fred Ward. -- Figure 9.1: 'He emasculated it!'-Norman Sparnon (centre) in front of Rosalie's tangled iron with blue devil, with the consul general for Japan, Mr Nissi Sato, and Mrs Sato at Farmers Blaxland Gallery, Sydney, in 1965. -- Figure 9.2: James Mollison, c. 1977. -- Figure 9.3: 3 Anstey Street, Pearce, the mid-century modern Gascoigne home designed by architect Theo Bischoff. -- Figure 9.4: The dining room at 3 Anstey Street, Pearce. -- Figure 9.5: Rosalie with one of her ikebana arrangements, Anstey Street, Pearce, 1969. -- Figure 10.1: Rosalie with Michael Taylor at Anstey Street, Pearce, c. 1974. ; Figure 12.1: Rosalie and Ben, Anstey Street, 1997. -- Figure 12.2: The green velvet chaise longue on which Rosalie chatted with Peter McLeavey in 1983. -- Figure 12.3: Rosalie's grandson, Charles Gascoigne, with her materials in the courtyard at Anstey Street, 1983. -- Figure 13.1: US writer Josephine Humphreys, c. 2013. -- Figure 13.2: Rosalie Gascoigne at Toi o Tāmaki Auckland Art Gallery, July 1999. -- Prologue -- PART I. 1917-43. Auckland. Light and shadow -- 1. 1917-22: 'Happiness didn't enter into it' -- 2. 1923-29: 'I early on got a sense of shame' -- 3. 1930-34: 'I went to the school my mother taught at which was a bad thing' -- 4. 1935-43: 'English, French, Latin, maths and Greek … I got my BA' -- PART II. 1943-69. Stromlo and Deakin. 'The long littleness of female life' -- 5. 1943: 'Fate set me down, a bride' -- 6. 1944-49: 'You had to make a life out of nothing' -- 7. Late 1940s to 1960: 'Glory struck' -- 8. 1960-64: 'An expanding universe' -- PART III. 1969-99. Pearce. 'I needed this art' -- 9. 1965-70: 'Lift-off' -- 10. Early 1970s: 'I'm an artist!' -- 11. 1974-79: 'Breathless times' -- 12. The 1980s: 'An artist is like someone in the desert' -- 13. The 1990s: 'Only artists understand other artists' -- Conclusion -- Epilogue -- Bibliography -- Index.
• Sommario/riassunto: Widely regarded as a major Australian artist, Rosalie Gascoigne first exhibited in 1974 at the age of fifty-seven. She rapidly achieved critical acclaim for her assemblages which were her response to the Monaro landscape surrounding Canberra.
• Titolo autorizzato: My Own Sort of Heaven
• ISBN: 1-76046-656-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910897701203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Biography Series