City series I – IV
1982
- Medium
- collage of cut printed paper on paper
- Measurements
- (1-4) 56.0 × 41.0 cm (sheet) (each)
- Place/s of Execution
- Melbourne, Victoria
- Accession Number
- 2020.627.1-4
- Department
- Australian Prints & Drawings
- Credit Line
- National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Purchased, Victorian Foundation for Living Australian Artists, 2020 - Gallery location
- Not on display
- About this work
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Elizabeth Gower studied art and design in Melbourne during the early 1970s, a time when the women’s art movement was gaining momentum. Her early works feature diaphanous fabrics, layered papers and stitched fragments. From the 1980s, Gower began incorporating found imagery from the detritus of everyday life into intricately worked collages. For City series, she used fragments from billboards, posters and ephemeral advertising material that she collected around inner-city Melbourne. She arranged these into bold and dynamic compositions that reflect the pop culture aesthetics and graphic design language of the period.