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• Auction House:
  Bonhams Australia
• Sale Name:
  Important Australian Art
• Sale Date:
  29 Nov 2022 ~ 6pm (AEST)
• Lot #:
  80
• Lot Description:
  Susan Norrie
  (born 1953)
  Walrus and White Rabbit, 1986
  oil on board
  88.0 x 88.0cm (34 5/8 x 34 5/8in).
• Provenance:
  The Estate of Michael Hobbs, Sydney
• Notes:
  'Norrie's paintings are complex compositions of layered structures, each one blending images from the Western art tradition to images in popular media. For example the base layer in her composition may be made up of images quoted from Dutch, Spanish and French painting of the seventeenth and eighteenth century, to this will be added a quasi-transparent layer of images quoted from popular media. The two layers will merge, altering the original meaning of both images. As a rule the second image is taken from the fantasy world of animated characters or comic strip. To these layers Norrie adds more. The additions are stylistic quotations ranging from gestural expressionist brushstrokes to a more restrained traditional application of paint. Each painting is a clever mix of both images and style. Norrie's excessive layering is a metaphor for the successive images as they appear on television and are at once indiscriminately consumed by society. It is the voracity of consumerism that on the one hand concerns her and on the other fascinates her. In her work she presents the layering of images as a process of visual information continually changing, displacing and dislocating both sense and sensibility.' Grazia Gunn, in Advance Australian Painting, Auckland City Art Gallery, New Zealand, 1988, p. 38
• Estimate:
  A$20,000 - 30,000
• Realised Price:
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• Category:
  Art

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