primed canvas (may green)
Specifications
primed canvas (may green) is made of watercolour and lead pencil on paper, gesso on linen.
The work comprises components with an overall measurement of 192 cm from the ground and 137.6 cm wide.
Editionprimed canvas (may green) is in an edition. The edition includes:
primed canvas (blue), 2002
primed canvas (yellow brown), 2002
primed canvas (cobalt-blue turquoise), 2002
primed canvas (sapgreen), 2002
primed canvas (may green), 2002
primed canvas (Naples yellow), 2002
primed canvas (charcoal grey), 2002
| 07/11/2003 | But is it art?, The Cross Art Projects, Sydney |
| 25/01/2003 | PLANS: a sculptural situation by Gail Hastings, Heidi Museum of Modern Art (cur. Zara Stanhope), Melbourne |
Bibliography
Alexander George,
‘Primed Suspects: Gail Hastings’ Sculptural Situations’,
But is it Art?: Sculptural Situations by Gail Hastings,
exhibition catalogue,
The Cross Art Projects,
Sydney
2003.
Excerpt
Called sculptural situations, paintings look like pages torn from an encyclopaedia, and sculpture looks like furniture. […] As in a detective story, or the scene of a crime, everything is primed or poised for meaning. That corridor to the library and that picture on the wall: everything in the mystery seems chosen, asking us why it is there. Everyone becomes a suspect. We bring our private eyes along and take partial views of the whole. In the meantime we interview eyewitnesses, flick through art catalogues, and try to second-guess the spooks. It’s an environment of suspicion, and we have to read between the lines. Hastings’ recurring construct or motif is the detective story, whose various tropes and characters frame the alternating presence, absence or very question of the ‘work of art’. […] Here the viewer is implored to investigate a ‘big cover-up’, to ‘go disguised as an art viewer and note all suspicious circumstances – such as other art viewers. And remember, nothing is ever nothing’. If anything, that is. I went to a curious event where the artist Gail Hastings spoke […] As a leftist I was not convinced in the slightest. But I was prepared to enjoy something else – I liked the theatre of her proposition. The proposition didn’t matter for me, the rhetoric couldn’t have been better, the body language attractive, her mannerisms unique and almost televisual.
Clabburn Anna,
‘Space is the text best thing’,
The Weekend Australian: Arts,
22–23 February
2003,
p.R13.
Kelly Lisa,
‘If Anything.’,
in Gwynneth Porter and Dan Arps (ed.),
Natural Selection Magazine,
issue 1,
2004,
pp.7.1–7.2
.
Excerpt
Lewis Ruark,
‘An emailed note concerning an art talk by Gail Hastings’,
in Gwynneth Porter and Dan Arps (ed.),
Natural Selection Magazine,
issue 1,
2004,
p.7.3,
.
Excerpt
HoldingsGail Hastings’ studioprimed canvas (may green) is available for acquisition. Please enquire about viewing the artwork.
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