120! Materials

Fiona Hall: The Price is Right, 1995.

Hall has taken photographs of different objects in this collection. This is a polaroid photograph. It is made up of two images, each image size is 53 x 68 cm. This artwork is a diptych which is a sequence of two images, which typically dictates where the observers eye follows. This has been done in modern art, for example Andy Warhol's Marilyn Diptych. The Everyday house hold items, the cotton underwear and the mop are photographed and backlit. The polaroid itself is quite large and shows more detail and has a glossy finish. Like many of Hall's work it is a social comment on the natural and commercial world. The glossy finish dipicts the glossy magazines and advertising images of the commerical world. The title of the artwork refers to the the game show "the price is right"- also refering to the buying of goods.

Rosalie Gascoigne: Untitled. (Two Linoleum Tesserae) 1994-95.

Gascoigne has used linoleum as seen on the surface of the artworks. On the backing she has used plywood. She typically uses materials that she has found. She doesn't use calssical materials as the materials she chooses to work with have been more exposed to "to the weather". Meaning used materials. The linoleum has been atached to the plywood and arranged so that it resembles some sort of puzzle, creating two panels: 23 x 16.5 x 1.5 cm.