Tania
1995
- Medium
- coloured inks, synthetic polymer paint, plastic and glitter on canvas
- Measurements
- 132.0 × 85.4 cm
- Inscription
- inscribed in blue fibre-tipped pen on reverse "TANIA" PAT LARTER SEPT 1995
inscribed (diagonally) in pencil on reverse: Photoscan / Tania Sept. 95. - Accession Number
- 1997.342
- Department
- Contemporary Art
- Credit Line
- National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Purchased, 1997
© Courtesy of the artist's estate
This digital record has been made available on NGV Collection Online through the generous support of The Vizard Foundation - Gallery location
- Not on display
- About this work
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Pat Larter’s collage works, which she called ‘super scans’, recall a kitsch decorative aesthetic often associated with women’s craft. Larter used this aesthetic to critique associations of femininity with certain kinds of art, as well as sexualised imagery to challenge ideas of ‘good taste’. Throughout her career Larter tested the protocols of art-making, being one of the few Australian women artists to contribute significantly to ‘mail art’ in the 1970s, which she called ‘femail art’ to indicate the significance of her gender in her work. This movement sought to use ephemeral art-making methods to undermine the commodification of art objects.
- Subjects (general)
- Human Figures Portraits
- Subjects (specific)
- feminism nudes (representations) patterns (design elements) prostitutes sexuality women (female humans)