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Lot Essay
"Her art is activated by the formal and evocative power of its material form. Gascoigne's use of modernist strategies, her simple but complex means of construction, those of fragmentation, re-assemblage, repetition, tessellation and compression, effect an ordering and accentuation which is also poetic in its workings. In all of this Gascoigne's processes of handcrafting are foregrounded, and communicated through an exceptional economy of means. She experiences, selects and creates, using a relatively narrow range of materials, in order to present the work to us as resonating with a virtually endless allusive power." (D Edwards, Material as Landscape, Sydney, 1998, p.11)
Gascoigne worked with this title a few times. In a 1989 exhibition at Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney, four of the major works in the exhibition were titled 'Tesserae 1, 2, 3, 4'. In the 1992 exhibition, in which this work was shown, there was another work 'Tesserae Y' also exhibited.
Gascoigne worked with this title a few times. In a 1989 exhibition at Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney, four of the major works in the exhibition were titled 'Tesserae 1, 2, 3, 4'. In the 1992 exhibition, in which this work was shown, there was another work 'Tesserae Y' also exhibited.