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| | ARTIST NAME: | Osborne, Lyndal | | ACCESSION NUMBER: | 2001.145.001.A-K | | TITLE: | TABLEAUX FOR TRANSFORMATION | | DATE: | 1998 | | CATEGORY: | Mixed Media | | MEDIUM: | avocado seeds, apricot pits, bromeliad bloom, bird of paradise flowers, bananas, banksia seeds, burnt copper wire, croton leaves, custard apple seeds, carrots, chestnuts, cow parsnips, corks, chine colle, cattail, cloves, Chinese chestnuts, corals, Canada thistle galls, crab apples, chillies, caragana, day lilies, dogwood, date pits, eucalyptus leaves, fungus, ferns, gaillardia, ginseng, grapefruit, gum nuts, globe thistles, gourds, hostas grevillea seeds, iron pyrite, iris seeds, jack pine cones, jacaranda seeds, lime grass, lava, lonicerae flowers, lotus seeds, larch needles, lilac seeds, mushrooms, milkweed, mango seeds, monstera delicioso, Norfolk pine needles, old broom, ochna, orange, orchid roots, protea flowers, peach hakia seeds, poppies, peach pits, pumice, peonies, poplar fuzz, queen of the night blossoms, paperbark seeds, rocks, rhubarb seeds, Russian olive twigs and leaves, rue root, sages, sea coral fans, sea foam, sharks’ eggs, sea urchins, sintra shavings, spear grass, kelp, seaweed, sea pebbles, shells, sponge, tumbleweed, telephone wire, turnip, tree moss, tree parasites, waratah seeds, wild cucumber seeds, wasp nests, yellow willow, wood, paint | | SUPPORT: | wood shelves | | DIMENSIONS: | Actual: 238.8 x 60.7 x 15.7 cm (94 x 23 7/8 x 6 3/16 in.)
Other (Each Crate): 39 x 68 x 249 cm (15 3/8 x 26 3/4 x 98 1/16 in.)
Other (Crate 6): 10 x 25 x 57.5 cm (3 15/16 x 9 13/16 x 22 5/8 in.) | | COLLECTION: | Alberta Foundation for the Arts |
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| | OTHER HOLDINGS: | Osborne, Lyndal | | ARTIST BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH: | “I feel like an archeologist seeking and retrieving discarded fragments of the urban environment and the dried out remains of natures’ seasons,” says artist Lyndal Osborne. Describing her work as discussing “timelessness and regeneration,” she says it “is also a way to understand death and to celebrate life through our need to define and humanise our existence on this planet.”
Lyndal Osborne’s art has greeted audiences in more than 350 national and international exhibitions. Her ecologically-concerned oeuvre includes work that questions the impact of genetically modified organisms, and installations that examine natural forces of transformation.
Born in Newcastle, Australia, Osborne won scholarships to earn her BA at the National Art School (1960) and Teacher’s College (1961) in Sydney. She completed her MFA in Printmaking at the University of Wisconsin at Madison (1971) while she was a teaching assistant (1967 – 1970).
Osborne taught high school in Vancouver and Powell River, British Columbia, and in Montreal. She later taught printmaking at the University of Houston, TX (1970) and at the University of Alberta (1971, 1977 - 1978); she also served as a printmaking coordinator at the U of A (1979 – 1982), where she is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Art and Design.
More than twenty permanent collections house Osborne’s work, including those of the University of Saskatchewan, Alberta Government House in Hong Kong, Nova Corporation, and the Canada Council Art Bank. She has participated in scores of invitational exhibitions, including at the Margaret Dryer Gallery in Houston, TX, The California Society of Printmakers Group Show in San Francisco, and The Henry Worland Memorial Art Prize for Prints ’74 at the Warrnambool Art Gallery in New South Wales, Australia. Her scores of juried print shows include the Canadian Society of Painters, Etchers and Engravers’ touring 55th Annual National Exhibition, and the Australian and New Zealand print and pottery exhibition Horizon ’73. |
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