Cotton no.1-8
1993
- Medium
- cotton, bamboo
- Accession Number
- S6.a-h-1994
- Department
- Contemporary Art
- Credit Line
- National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Purchased from Trustees Funds, 1994 - Gallery location
- Not on display
- About this work
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A. D. S. Donaldson made important contributions to the development of the grunge movement in Sydney in the early 1990s. In 1993 the artist curated Monsterfield at the Ivan Dougherty Gallery in Sydney, an influential exhibition that articulated this trend in contemporary art. This installation, made in the same year, reflects Donaldson’s interests in extending the artist Duchamp’s idea of the ‘assisted’ or ‘altered’ readymade, evident in his transformation of found materials that suggest domesticity and everyday utility – in this case, fabric painters’ dropsheets.