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Abstract markings

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 148 Collections and/or Records:

Serial Piece, 1989

 Item — Folder 17: [Barcode: 31858072459765]
Identifier: CC-23483-23928
Scope and Contents

Though seemingly a part of "7 Assorted Pieces," this piece was not originally listed alongside ithe other 6 artworks. The recorded date indicates it was made earlier and separately.

Dates: 1989

Standpoint, 1991

 Item — Box 317: [Barcode: 31858072490844]
Identifier: CC-26175-26638
Scope and Contents

Each page has a grid of nine drawings of abstract markings. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1991

Text(ure), 1977

 Item — Box Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: Cobbing, Bob (3 of 3): [Barcode: 31858072491347]
Identifier: CC-17754-18123

The Gun Child, 1968

 Item — Box 617: [Barcode: 31858072461027]
Identifier: CC-49109-70149
Scope and Contents

d.a. levy did the cover drawing that depicts abstract markings. This book is stored in a d.a. levy box. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1968

The Puking Pidgeon #1 or The Fucking Duck #1 or The Search for the Holy Houkah, 1966

 Item — Box 618: [Barcode: 31858072461035]
Identifier: CC-07623-7768
Scope and Contents

The painted drawing on the cover was done by levy. Bill Wyatt, is a British poet who carried on a correspondence with levy. Several letters from this interaction are held by the Sackner Archive. Printed by d.a. levy. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1966

the sound of colour - the colour of sound, 1997

 Item — Box Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: Cobbing, Bob (3 of 3): [Barcode: 31858072491347]
Identifier: CC-31668-33173

The Sound of Vertical Breathing / Mennitti-Paraito, Emanuele., 1991

 Item
Identifier: CC-06068-6182
Scope and Contents

Commissioned for "The Beauty in Breathing" exhibition. The artist visually interpretes the sounds of breathing which can be performed as sound poetry. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1991

Triptych 10 For Eric, 1995

 Item — Box Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: Cobbing, Bob (2 of 3): [Barcode: 31858072491313]
Identifier: CC-20816-21224
Scope and Contents

Eric refers to the recently deceased Eric Mottram. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1995

[Troubly lathered], 2001

 Item — Folder 12: [Barcode: 31858069877862]
Identifier: CC-38888-40814
Scope and Contents

The photograph depicts a text by Bennett that Helmes overprinted with four rectangular shapes enclosing abstract markings. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2001

[Typewriter Art], 1981

 Item
Identifier: CC-09491-9680
Scope and Contents

The drawings are unsigned, but two packing slips accompanying the work with Jennifer Hawkins' signature have been retained. Internet: Jennifer Hawkins trained at the Canberra School of Art and now lives on the South Coast of New South Wales. She works with a range of symbols, materials, and processes to explore the human condition. Though she has been called purist, minimalist, and conceptualist, she says she just uses "whatever materials and techniques seem to make the best marriage with the idea'. She has exhibited in group and solo exhibitions and has work held in private and public collections both here and overseas. In September 2006, she won the Basil Sellers Art Prize with her work ... and on that day they shall rise up... In 2005, Quilt for a Park Bench won the Quota Rotary Art Prize at Wagga. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1981

Ulli's Sett, 1994

 Item — Box Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: Cobbing, Bob (1 of 3): [Barcode: 31858072491305]
Identifier: CC-20542-20939