EXP1 Artists' Production Methods and Materials Use

The material use of Fiona Hall's works is critical to understand her philosophy. She basically picked up everyday objects, and developed them in oder to address on the issues, such as globalization, consumerism, colonialism and natural history. In her recent work 'Understorey', Hall applied glass beads, and threaded them onto wire, to create an object representing the relationships between nature and human activities, especially during the colonial time. The juxtaposition of its shape, showed the natural organisms, as well as the various colours applied.

The works of Rosalie Gascoigne would normally contain collage pattern, with beautiful use of shapes and materials. The materials she applied were developed from found objects, such as road signs, rusting corrugated iron and weathered timber. Additionally, she finds beauty in the imperfect, the humble, the simple and the incomplete, with the the preferences of simple shapes and lines.