dc.contributor.author | Fragar, Julie | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2020-05-10T22:41:18Z | |
dc.date.available | 2020-05-10T22:41:18Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2019 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10072/393726 | |
dc.description.abstract | This is Not a Dress Rehearsal: A Catalogue of Final Options (2019) was a major new work commissioned by Carriageworks, Sydney for The National: New Australian Art in 2019. This monumental painting continues Fragar’s engagement with human ontological themes, this time addressing the final human experience of death. Fragar’s painting—a self-portrait with her daughter—uses an inventive composition of many images to represent the anxious impossibility of understanding what death actually is. Hanging as a necklace on Fragar’s self-portrait reads a quote from Marcus Aurelius, ‘[o]ne [wo]man after burying another has been laid out dead, and another buries h[er]: and all this in a short time’. The painting therefore also speaks of perpetual inter-generational grief. At the time this painting was made, Annette Kent, who was Fragar’s close friend and mother-in-law and her daughter’s paternal died from pancreatic cancer. | |
dc.format.medium | Oil on board | |
dc.publisher | The National: New Australian Art | |
dc.publisher.place | Carriageworks, Sydney | |
dc.publisher.uri | https://www.the-national.com.au/artists/julie-fragar/this-is-not-a-dress-rehearsal-a-catalogue-of-final-options/ | |
dc.subject.fieldofresearch | Visual arts | |
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode | 3606 | |
dc.title | This is Not a Dress Rehearsal: A Catalogue of Final Options (Major New Work Commission for The National) | |
dc.type | Creative work | |
dc.type.description | Q1_1 Visual Art (Major Research) | |
dcterms.bibliographicCitation | Fragar, J, This is Not a Dress Rehearsal: A Catalogue of Final Options (Major New Work Commission for The National), 2019 | |
dc.date.updated | 2020-05-08T02:08:56Z | |
gro.description.notepublic | 2.7m x 2m Oil Painting | |
gro.hasfulltext | No Full Text | |
gro.griffith.author | Fragar, Julie F. | |