Sketching Tom Gill: Art, history, and a creative exploration beyond the frame of ST Gill's utopian visions of colonial South Australia.

The 1840s paintings of the emigrant artist Samuel Thomas (ST) Gill are frequently used to depict Adelaide’s earliest years. ST Gill’s works are enduringly popular, and the compositions show a peaceful version of the colonising of South Australia in an era before the advent of photography could provi...

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Main Author: Molloy, Jennifer Lorraine
Other Authors: Seys, Madeleine, Coleman, Aidan (Southern Cross University), School of Humanities : English and Creative Writing and Film
Format: Thesis
Language:unknown
Published: 2024
Subjects:
art
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/2440/140653
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spelling ftunivadelaidedl:oai:digital.library.adelaide.edu.au:2440/140653 2024-05-19T07:40:26+00:00 Sketching Tom Gill: Art, history, and a creative exploration beyond the frame of ST Gill's utopian visions of colonial South Australia. Molloy, Jennifer Lorraine Seys, Madeleine Coleman, Aidan (Southern Cross University) School of Humanities : English and Creative Writing and Film 2024 application/pdf https://hdl.handle.net/2440/140653 unknown https://hdl.handle.net/2440/140653 ST Gill art history creative exploration utopian visions beyond the frame Thesis 2024 ftunivadelaidedl 2024-05-01T00:02:04Z The 1840s paintings of the emigrant artist Samuel Thomas (ST) Gill are frequently used to depict Adelaide’s earliest years. ST Gill’s works are enduringly popular, and the compositions show a peaceful version of the colonising of South Australia in an era before the advent of photography could provide alternate views. However, Sketching Tom Gill: Art, history, and a creative exploration beyond the frame of ST Gill’s utopian visions of colonial South Australia posits that these works are studiously composed and highly crafted, and are therefore an unreliable way to view South Australia’s colonial history. Utilising the principles of ‘blind space’ developed by twentieth-century film theorists, this creative nonfiction thesis investigates beyond the frame of Gill’s compositions to expose the realities of the early settlement of South Australia; the framework is underscored by issues of violence and dispossession enacted upon First Nations peoples. The work is a critical and creative narrative of facts and fictions that integrates the epistolary form, artworks, written sketches, journal entries, microfictions and historic found objects, collaging them to suggest new compositions and a unique interpretation of Gill’s South Australian colonial art archive. Thesis (Ph.D.) -- University of Adelaide, School of Humanities, 2024 Thesis First Nations The University of Adelaide: Digital Library
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description The 1840s paintings of the emigrant artist Samuel Thomas (ST) Gill are frequently used to depict Adelaide’s earliest years. ST Gill’s works are enduringly popular, and the compositions show a peaceful version of the colonising of South Australia in an era before the advent of photography could provide alternate views. However, Sketching Tom Gill: Art, history, and a creative exploration beyond the frame of ST Gill’s utopian visions of colonial South Australia posits that these works are studiously composed and highly crafted, and are therefore an unreliable way to view South Australia’s colonial history. Utilising the principles of ‘blind space’ developed by twentieth-century film theorists, this creative nonfiction thesis investigates beyond the frame of Gill’s compositions to expose the realities of the early settlement of South Australia; the framework is underscored by issues of violence and dispossession enacted upon First Nations peoples. The work is a critical and creative narrative of facts and fictions that integrates the epistolary form, artworks, written sketches, journal entries, microfictions and historic found objects, collaging them to suggest new compositions and a unique interpretation of Gill’s South Australian colonial art archive. Thesis (Ph.D.) -- University of Adelaide, School of Humanities, 2024
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title_full Sketching Tom Gill: Art, history, and a creative exploration beyond the frame of ST Gill's utopian visions of colonial South Australia.
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