Year
2014
Degree Name
Doctor of Philosophy
Department
School of the Arts, English and Media - Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts
Recommended Citation
Gray, Sarah Willard, The cartographic paradigm in contemporary Australian landscape painting: concepts of ownership, belonging and place 1950-2014., Doctor of Philosophy thesis, School of the Arts, English and Media - Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts, University of Wollongong, 2014. http://ro.uow.edu.au/theses/4397
Abstract
This PhD consists of a painting folio and an independent written thesis that makes a comparative study of the use of the cartographic or mapping perspective in art, with a particular focus on Australian landscape painting made after World War Two. I argue that this recent Australian art is built on a long history of previous art practices and theories, and particularly on the meeting of Western traditions of landscape and spatial representation and Indigenous traditions of representing space and place.
The written thesis also investigates the history of the Southern Highlands and how it has been mapped and represented by Western artists since colonization, which is also the subject of the paintings. While the painting practice is research driven – the paintings are made on the spot and developed from a very personal engagement with the landscape – the investigations of the written thesis inform my paintings from a cartographic and mapping viewpoint with reference to its ancient and contemporary forms.
FoR codes (2008)
190102 Art History, 190103 Art Theory, 190104 Visual Cultures, 190502 Fine Arts (incl. Sculpture and Painting)
Unless otherwise indicated, the views expressed in this thesis are those of the author and do not necessarily represent the views of the University of Wollongong.