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SC0284-RMA-PR-1
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Newnham - Building A - Level 3 Hallway towards Student Commons West
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Mary Rawlyk (1966-2012)
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Wringing Shirt (from the Domestic Object series)
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1974
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Print
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Relief etching
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Screen process
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Card relief
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76.2 x 49.5 cm
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17/30
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"By bringing images of women's private unpaid domestic labour into a public gallery, the value-laden division between housework and public work is challenged. Attention is focused on the growing awareness of women that the personal is political. Women's private domestic labour supports the wider political structures which control women's lives.”
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The hallmark of 70's art was macho-like male driven Neo-Expressionism, what art historian Joan Murray tagged "penis-as-paintbrush art”. Unless they were dead, female artists were, for the most part, excluded from mainstream galleries. Against all odds, artists like Mary Rawlyk were left to cut out a role for themselves, a role that often militated against flavour-of-the-day isms, a role defined by feminist ideas.
According to Rawlyk, Wringing Shirt is a metaphor for the etching process: the old-fashioned wringer and the etching press are similarly constructed while the shirt plate is made and printed in the same way that the shirt is wrung through a wringer. Rawlyk writes, “I have no pretense about an artist’s glamorous existence — I just keep making prints, cook three meals a day for my family, bake cookies for the church bazaar and send the children off to school.” After Rawlyk has spent so many years virtually confined to her home, it is little wonder that her subject matter, like that of Mary Pratt, comes from her domestic environment. (David Phillips, Seneca Polytechnic)
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Purchased from Doris Pascal Gallery
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Signed bottom right corner, Mary Rawlyk 74
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Framed under glass, floating mount in a shadow box in a polish silver wooden gallery frame moulding. No action needed. Good condition, clean and intact assumed stable.
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