All Light, All Air Rosalie Gascoigne & Lorraine Connelly-Northey

If art tends not to exist (well) in a vacuum, the same may be said of artists. This is particularly true for the Australian sculptors Rosalie Gascoigne and Lorraine Connelly-Northey, who are the subject of an upcoming, carefully focussed survey at the National Gallery of Victoria (NGV): Found and Gathered. I use the term “survey” loosely, however, as the exhibition is staged far from chronology. Instead, it centres on a series of sets: the diametric themes, subjects, and visual devices employed by both artists in their biographically discrete careers.

Yet, while these sets focuses on a particular use of discarded objects and explores how each practitioner uses these to make works of art, disassociating objects from their original function via a system of obsessive collecting. The exhibition will encompass seventy-five works, organised around aspects of each artist’s life, work, and emotional register: ordered by materiality and process, transformation and surprise.