00:01There's something exciting finding a treasure at your local tip and when
00:05Rosalie Gascoigne found 300 dollies dumped at hers she could hardly contain
00:11her excitement. She's an artist who sees things in stuff that has been thrown
00:15away. This Saturday more than 80 of her works come together at the National
00:19Gallery of Australia for a retrospective exhibition. She found art when she moved
00:24to Canberra in 1943 to join her husband at Mount Stromlow Observatory. For 17
00:30years she raised a family in the remote community picking up on nature's cues of
00:35light and colour but also pieces that had flown or blown away into the paddocks
00:39and bush around her home. Her first solo show came in 1974 when she was 57. By
00:461982 she was at the Venice Biennale. A true sign of the times that you can
00:52create from trash national treasure.
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