Both worlds (1975)

Lucy MacKenzie

wood and glass box with paint, paper, silk, thread, metal, feathers, leaves, starfish, sand, shells and a figurine

Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art (QAGOMA), Brisbane

Classification:

Sculpture

Materials:

Wood, Glass, Paper, Silk, Thread, Metal, Feather, Sand, Leaf, Starfish, Shell

Dimensions:

37.5 x 34 x 4 cm

Accession Number:

1:1739

Credit:

Presented by the Contemporary Art Society through the Robin Darwin Fund, 1980

Scheme:

Robin Darwin Fund (1975)

Ownership history:

Purchased from the artist by Caryl Hubbard (1933-2021) for the Contemporary Art Society, with the Robin Darwin Fund, 1976; presented to Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane | Gallery of Modern Art (QAGOMA), 1979

Relationship:

Caryl Whineray Hubbard Robert Vere 'Robin' Darwin Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art (QAGOMA), Brisbane

In Both Worlds (1975), Lucy Mackenzie invites the viewer to contemplate the selection and arrangement of objects that draw us in to her serene, private and timeless world. She says: "A painting may be a pure celebration of something that catches my eye, the pose and fragility of a flower, the pattern on a seashell, the way light falls on plain domestic objects. I like the fact that these sort[s] of objects have been painted by artist[s] for hundreds even thousands of years."

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