Primary Artist

David Rose (1936–2006)

Title

Clouds and sunshine, Bateau Bay

Date made

1980

Category

Print

Print type

stencil

Technique

screenprint, printed in colour, from eighteen stencils

Support

paper

State

published state

Edition information

edition of 60

Production notes

Artists comment: This print relates to an earlier series of prints, particularly to 'Rain, Bateau Bay', 1975. In this earlier print the graphic elements were emphasized, the headlands tied to the curved sea hoqizon, which was obscured by the advancing rain. The present print was based on a small colour sketch, done from memory, of a particular afdternoon light at Bateau Bay, the distant seas bright from sunlight, which also hit the headland, the near seas darker undercloud shadow. Eighteen successive colours were used, and all stencils prepared with water soluble gum, with no photo stencils. The graded sky was printed first, then the sea, with the nearest elements printed last (like a stage set of successive ink layers), using the capacity of a screenprint to range from the transparent washes of sky and seas, to the opaque ink on the headland. [Art & Australia Vol. 23, no.2. p.151. Summer 1985, p.151]

Collection

National Gallery of Australia

IRN

169205

Accession number

92.611

Accession method

Gift

Meeting

Meeting 7, 1991/92 (1992-06-24)

Provenance

Gift of the artist to the NGA, June 1992.

Credit line

Gift of the artist 1992

Country of context

Australia

Creators

ROSE, David | (1936–2006) Australian | Male | artist