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• Auction House:
  Mossgreen
• Sale Name:
  Fine Australian & International Art
• Sale Date:
  02 May 2016 ~ 6.30pm - Part 1 - Lots 1 - 47
  03 May 2016 ~ 2.30pm - Part 2 - Lots 48 - 320
• Lot #:
  19
• Lot Description:
  Sally Smart
  (born 1960)
  Shadow Dance (Delicate Cutting) 1994
  synthetic polymer paint on canvas
  214 x 214 cm
• Provenance:
  Private collection, Melbourne
• Exhibited:
  Sally Smart, Delicate Cutting, Robert Lindsay Gallery, 1994
• Notes:
  The work of Sally Smart who has exhibited nationally and internationally for the past 20 years, is focussed on concepts of feminine identity, the role of women in history, and how gender roles are created and fashioned within society; all of which involves the illusory nature of reality and its manipulation. In this she ventures into the fields of psychoanalytic theory, Surrealism and Dadaism. While feminine discourse underpins her work, Smart's forensic exploration of the elements of a feminine identity and the different roles of women in history, has been generated by her desire to challenge our assumptions about the ways in which we read and understand history and meaning. In undertaking this ambitious enterprise Smart has utilised painting, collage, screen printing, drawing and photography as well as other methods of construction, including cut-out fabric and felt elements pinned directly to the wall for large assemblage installations. Shadow Dance (Delicate Cutting) 1994 was first exhibited in a solo exhibition entitled 'Delicate Cutting' at the Robert Lindsay Gallery, Melbourne in 1994. This exhibition highlighted a central theme in Sally Smart's work - a fascination with the illusionary, the strange and uncanny. It featured paintings that drew on her research into the Fox Sisters who were a trio of spurious American spiritualists in the 1880s who used their apparent privileged communications with the afterlife to give weight and authority to their pronouncements on the position of women in society at that time. Smart was fascinated by these early feminists and supernatural hoaxers, and in works such as Shadow Dance (Delicate Cutting) she presented hybrid woman/fox creatures operating in a field of distortion where collage and painted elements serve as visual metaphors for illusion and reality. The Rorschach ink-blot motifs which form the background of this work allude to both Freudian views on the subconscious and to Surrealism's provocative juxtaposition of bizarre disconnected elements. Francis Lindsay AM
• Estimate:
  A$10,000 - 15,000
• Realised Price:
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• Category:
  Art

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