People named Rosalie Walker

Rosalie Gascoigne The Independent Culture ROSALIE GASCOIGNE was one of Australia's leading avant-garde artists. She was also a phenomenon. She did not begin her artistic career until she was in her fifties. She had her first solo exhibition in 1974, at the age of 57. Her vision and originality were recognised at once. The show was an immediate critical and commercial success. From that moment on, while others might have been thinking of retirement and a quiet old age, she continued to develop an extraordinary body of work, introducing a new note into Australian art, and forging an international reputation. Although Gascoigne is regarded as an Australian artist, she was born in Auckland, New Zealand, in 1917. She was the second of the three children of Stanley and Marion King Walker. Her parents separated for a period during her childhood, and her early years were dominated by the womenfolk of her mother's extended family. As a child she showed a love for nature, solitude and making things, but little interest in art. She was, by her own account, hopeless at drawing. Although she always felt in the shadow of her academically brilliant elder sister, she did attend Auckland University, and subsequently got a job as a teacher. While at university she met Sidney "Ben" Gascoigne, a bright and popular student with an interest in astronomy. They shared an enthusiasm for bridge, and "tramps in the ranges". By the time they graduated they had reached an understanding that - all being well - they would marry. The coming of the Second World War precipitated their plans: Ben Gascoigne's eyesight made him unfit for military service, but he applied and got a job at the Stromlo Observatory just outside Canberra, Australia's new capital. Rosalie followed him there, and they were married in January 1943. The early years in her adoptive country were austere and sometimes lonely. The community at Stromlo was tiny, Canberra itself was a small, undeveloped city of barely 8,000 souls. She had two children within two years (and another two years later). The landscape too was unfamiliar and often oppressive. She set about exploring it, however, and soon discovered its special beauties. She made a garden and also gathered wild flowers, learning how to dry, preserve and arrange them. It was her growing interest in flower arranging that began to open up to her the possibilities of art. In 1960 the family moved down from Stromlo into the Canberra suburb of Deakin. Rosalie's imaginative dried-flower arrangements became increasingly in demand for public and private functions in the capital. The decisive shift came in 1962 when Rosalie allowed herself to be persuaded to sign up for a course on Ikebana being given by the Japanese-trained Australian expert Norman Sparnon. With her well-honed eye and her detailed knowledge of plant forms she discovered that she had a natural genius for this stern Japanese discipline. Her work won plaudits. When Sofu Teshigahara, the founder of the modern Sogestu school of Ikebana, visited Canberra in 1967 he singled out Gascoigne's work, praising it for its artistic sense. The recognition of her Ikebana work proved extraordinarily liberating. As she put it, "It was the first time I found that I was actually good at anything." In tandem, Gascoigne was developing an informed and impassioned interest in modern art. Her eldest son, Martin, by now in his twenties, was collecting contemporary work. He also introduced her to James Mollison, the maverick young curator who was to become the first director of the National Gallery of Australia at Canberra. Another important influence was Michael Taylor, a young painter and teacher at the Canberra School of Art. Encouraged by these sympathetic spirits, Gascoigne began to experiment beyond the boundaries of Ikebana, making assemblages out of old metal, bone and other found materials. The work drew its material, quite literally, from the landscape, and was inspired by Gascoigne's response to the land, but it shied away from any attempt at direct representation. The work grew in scale when, at the end of the 1960s, the family moved to a new, larger, and specially designed house in the suburb of Pearce. The following year she gave up Ikebana and devoted herself entirely to her art. She began to show locally in Canberra, but the turning point came in 1975 when Michael Taylor, who had moved to Sydney, selected her as his choice to exhibit at a mixed show for "young" artists at the innovative Gallery A in Sydney. Gascoigne's art stood out as something completely different. There was a chorus of approval. The critic for the Sydney Morning Herald found her work unlike anybody else's in Australia: She assembles disparate objects like a neat horizontal stack of dried stalks in a piece of convex metal, with a marvellously sure and fully sculptural taste in setting up contrasts of texture, colour, direction and weight. In addition there is a poetic trace of domestic imagery, a hint of the satisfaction found in tidiness and housekeeping, a suggestion that a fireplace is a kind of shrine. Gallery A at once offered her a solo show. With the success of this, Gascoigne found herself at the age of 58 embarking on a new artistic career. Offers for work and exhibitions flowed in. Pieces were acquired by public galleries across the southern hemisphere. She established a position as a unique and powerful voice in Australian art. In 1982 she was chosen to represent Australia at the Venice Biennale. Her work, although always based on assemblage, continued to develop and deepen right up until the end of her life. Working with found objects - beekeepers' boxes, discarded dolls, Schweppes drink crates, corrugated iron, shells, grasses, bones, reflector road signs - she created an art of daring beauty and power. Although during her later years she travelled to Europe, Scandinavia, America and Japan, her work is still shockingly little known outside Australia and New Zealand. Rosalie Norah King Walker, artist: born Auckland, New Zealand 25 January 1917; married 1943 Sidney "Ben" Gascoigne (two sons, one daughters); died Canberra 25 October 1999. 1

Rosalie J Walker of TX was born circa 1949. Rosalie Walker was married to Melvin L. Walker on May 7, 1979 in Dallas County, TX. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Rosalie J. (Groves) Walker.

Rosalie E Walker of TX was born circa 1947. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Rosalie E. (Hudson) Walker.

Rosalie Walker was born on April 21, 1921, and died at age 91 years old on December 15, 2012. Rosalie Walker was buried at Long Island National Cemetery Section 3D Site 1490 2040 Wellwood Avenue, in Farmingdale, Ny. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Rosalie Walker.

Rosalie Walker of Washington, District of Columbia County, District Of Columbia was born on June 1, 1876, and died at age 94 years old in June 1970.

Rosalie Walker of Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, CA was born on January 30, 1914, and died at age 86 years old on April 15, 2000.

Rosalie Walker of San Francisco, San Francisco County, CA was born on March 6, 1910, and died at age 85 years old on September 14, 1995.

Rosalie A Walker of Covina, Los Angeles County, CA was born on August 10, 1922, and died at age 69 years old on February 3, 1992.

Rosalie Walker of Portland, Washington County, Oregon was born on January 22, 1902, and died at age 76 years old in July 1978.

Rosalie Walker of Chinook, Pacific County, Oregon was born on July 12, 1944, and died at age 66 years old on November 7, 2010.

Rosalie D Walker of Lemon Grove, San Diego County, CA was born on September 22, 1909, and died at age 91 years old on June 24, 2001.

Rosalie O Walker of Denver, Denver County, CO was born on February 16, 1917, and died at age 83 years old on March 12, 2000.

Rosalie J Walker of Salem, Marion County, OR was born on March 16, 1928, and died at age 66 years old on June 8, 1994.

Rosalie Walker of Lees Summit, Jackson County, Missouri was born on December 10, 1899, and died at age 79 years old in July 1979.

Rosalie Walker of El Paso, El Paso County, Texas was born on July 2, 1896, and died at age 77 years old in April 1974.

Rosalie Walker was born on August 29, 1933, and died at age 47 years old in October 1980. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Rosalie Walker.

Rosalie Walker of El Paso, El Paso County, Texas was born on December 25, 1886, and died at age 81 years old in July 1968.

Rosalie Walker of Dallas, Dallas County, Texas was born on April 7, 1922, and died at age 59 years old in May 1981.

Rosalie Walker of San Diego, San Diego County, California was born on November 13, 1883, and died at age 89 years old in April 1973.

Rosalie Walker of Dallas, Dallas County, TX was born on March 22, 1920, and died at age 80 years old on August 12, 2000.

Rosalie D Walker of Skiatook, Osage County, OK was born on March 26, 1938, and died at age 60 years old on August 2, 1998.

Rosalie Walker of Newellton, Tensas County, LA was born on September 13, 1907, and died at age 88 years old on January 24, 1996.

Rosalie Walker of Norwood, East Feliciana County, Louisiana was born on April 30, 1889, and died at age 88 years old in August 1977.

Rosalie S Walker of Vicksburg, Warren County, MS was born on July 6, 1915, and died at age 90 years old on October 5, 2005.

Rosalie Walker of Baton Rouge, East Baton Rouge County, Louisiana was born on December 23, 1895, and died at age 73 years old in December 1968.

Rosalie P Walker was born on February 8, 1940, and died at age 59 years old on April 20, 1999. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Rosalie P Walker.

Rosalie Walker of Kingston, Tuscola County, Michigan was born on February 17, 1911, and died at age 64 years old in November 1975.

Rosalie Walker of Torrance, Los Angeles County, California was born on April 23, 1887, and died at age 79 years old in May 1966.

Rosalie Walker of Houston, Harris County, TX was born on April 16, 1911, and died at age 79 years old in December 1990.