Rosslynd PIGGOTT
Frankston, Victoria, Australia born 1958
Typhoon
1997 Kitamoto, Kanto, Saitama prefecture, Japan
Drawing, Watercolour, Technique: watercolour
Primary Insc: Signed, dated, titled and inscribed verso lower left in black pencil, ' 'Typhoon' 1997/ Rosslynd Piggott/watercolour on paper/- Japan'.
image 65.8 h x 51.5 w cm
sheet 65.8 h x 51.5 w cm
Purchased 2000
Accession No: NGA 2000.130
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Rosslynd PIGGOTT
Frankston, Victoria, Australia born 1958
Typhoon
1997 Kitamoto, Kanto, Saitama prefecture, Japan
Drawing, Watercolour, Technique: watercolour
Support: Arches Satine paper
Manufacturer's Mark: watermark: lower right, 'Arches / FRANCE'
Primary Insc: Signed, dated, titled and inscribed verso lower left in black pencil, ' 'Typhoon' 1997/ Rosslynd Piggott/watercolour on paper/- Japan'.
image 65.8 h x 51.5 w cm
sheet 65.8 h x 51.5 w cm
Purchased 2000
Accession No: NGA 2000.130
Provenance:
- Purchased by the National Gallery of Australia, from Sutton Gallery, Melbourne, June 2000.
Exhibition History
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- 2006
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- Moist: Australian watercolours NGA
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- 2005
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- Moist: Australian watercolours NGA
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Watercolour is not the usual working medium for Rosslynd Piggott. Her practice shifts appears to shift seamlessly from oil painting to blown and engraved glass to watercolour on paper. Her exquisitely executed watercolour Typhoon is a work of fragile beauty, painted while she was artist-in-residence in Kitamoto, Japan. Piggott had turned to watercolour when the problems of stretching canvas became overwhelming. Typhoon is one of four works that explore the nuances of substance and space. There are also poetic references to the elegant traceries of Japanese kimono patterns. This is a minimal abstract piece of green wash fading into a subtle pink. The contemplative nature and delicate decorative markings over a diminutive twisted tree clearly reflect the influences of Piggott’s Japanese environment.
Text © National Gallery of Australia, Canberra 2010
