University of Wollongong Research Online University of Wollongong Thesis Collection University of Wollongong Thesis Collections 2011 Transforming landscape Richard Hook University of Wollongong Recommended Citation Hook, Richard, Transforming landscape, Doctorate of Creative Arts thesis, Faculty of Creative Arts, University of Wollongong, 2011. http://ro.uow.edu.au/theses/3473 Research Online is the open access institutional repository for the University of Wollongong. For further information contact Manager Repository Services: [email protected]. TRANSFORMING LANDSCAPE A thesis submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the award of the degree Doctorate of Creative Arts from University of Wollongong by Richard Hook Faculty of Creative Arts 2011 CERTIFICATION I, Richard William Hook, declare that this thesis, submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the award of Doctor of Creative Arts, in the Faculty of Creative Arts, University of Wollongong, is wholly my own work unless otherwise referenced or acknowledged. The document has not been submitted for qualifications at any other academic institution. Richard William Hook (date) 2 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I would like to thank my supervisor, Professor Amanda Lawson, for her good advice, forbearance and trust in my ability to get things done, to my colleagues in design and visual arts for their generous good cheer, and to my family for tolerating my slow progress over a very long time. Thanks are also due to Tom Goulder of Duck Print Fine Art Editions in Port Kembla for taking on the large and complex prints, to Bernie Fischer for his care in photographing my work and to Sheila Hall for putting the document in order. I would like to acknowledge the traditional Indigenous owners of the land I walk through to produce the art. I have tried at all times to tread with care. 3 TABLE OF CONTENTS Page No. Title Page ......................................................................................... 1 Certification ..................................................................................... 2 Acknowledgements .......................................................................... 3 Table of Contents ............................................................................. 4 List of Figures……………………………………………………………. 5 Abstract: Transforming Landscape .................................................. 9 Chapter1: Introduction ..................................................................... 11 Chapter 2: Landscape Theory.......................................................... 30 Chapter 3: Ideology and Landscape ................................................ 43 Chapter 4: Orientations .................................................................... 64 Chapter 5: Fluid Signifiers ................................................................ 87 Chapter 6: Body Presence ............................................................... 108 Chapter 7: Coastal Architecture ....................................................... 127 In Conclusion…………………………………………………………….. 149 Bibliography ..................................................................................... 151s 4 LIST OF FIGURES Page No. Figure 1.1 Richard Hook, study for Reticulum 2009, acrylic on canvas, 75 x 65 cm. ..................................................... 12 Figure 1.2 Beach flotsam, Photograph by the author. ....................... 16 Figure 1.3 Richard Hook, Jetty, 2009, acrylic on canvas, 192.5 x 80 cm. ................................................................... 20 Figure 3.1 Anne McMaster, Kangaroo Bones, Broken Crockery, Drought, 2008, etching . .................................... 56 Figure 3.2 Christine Willcocks, Birdwood, 2008, solar plate etching . ............................................................................. 57 Figure 4.1 Guiseppe Penone, Continuera a crescere tranne che in quel punto, 1968, bronze. ....................................... 65 Figure 4.2 Steve Tobin, Untitled, 2002, cast bronze, 10 x 14 x 12 ft. ................................................................................ 66 Figure 4.3 Andy Goldsworthy, Cherry leaves, Swindale Beck Wood, Cumbria, November, 1984 ………………………………….. 67 Figure 4.4 Jackson Pollock, The Key (detail), 1946, oil on canvas, 59 x 84 ins. ........................................................... 75 Figure 4.5 Jackson Pollock, Croaking Movement, c. 1946, oil on canvas, 53.5 x 43.25 ins. ............................................ 76 Figure 4.6 Jackson Pollock, Eyes in the Heat, 1946, oil on canvas, 54 x 43 ins. ............................................................ 77 Figure 4.7 Jackson Pollock, Galaxy, 1947, oil and aluminium paint on canvas, 43.5 x 34 ins. ............................ ……………….. 78 Figure 4.8 Pollock Painting, 1950, Photograph by Rudolph Burckhardt………………………………………….................. 81 Figure 4.9 Pat Steir, September Evening Waterfall, 1991, oil on canvas, 289.6 x 261 cm. ............................................... 83 Figure 4.10 Stick chart, Marshall Islands, no date, wood, fibre, shells, 58 cm high. ................................................................ 84 5 Figure 5.1 Richard Hook, Jetty, 2010, relief print on paper, 167 x 71 cm. ...................................................................... 87 Figure 5.2 Richard Hook, Red Harbour, 2008, acrylic on canvas, 134 x 150 cm. ....................................................... 92 Figure 5.3 Richard Hook, Submariner #4, 2011, acrylic on canvas, 51 x 133 cm. ......................................................... 96 Figure 5.4 Photograph by the author, 2011. ..................................... 102 Figure 6.1 Fred Williams, Stump, 1976, oil on canvas, 123cm x 123 cm. .......................................................................... 109 Figure 6.2 Gustave Courbert, The Black Well, 1865, oil on canvas, 94 x 131 cm. ....................................................... 113 Figure 6.3 Jackson Pollock, Full Fathom Five, 1947, oil on canvas with various objects, 50.8 x 30.1 ins ..................... 114 Figure 6.4 J.M.W. Turner, Snow Storm—Steam-Boat off a Harbour’s Mouth Making Signals in Shallow Water, and Going by the Lead. The Author was in this Storm on the Night the Ariel Left Harwich, 1842, oil on canvas, 91.5 x 122cm. ........................................... 116 Figure 6.5 Willem de Kooning, North Atlantic Light, 1977, oil on canvas, 203 x 178 cm. ................................................ 119 Figure 6.6 Richard Hook, Submariner #1, 2007, acrylic on canvas, 64 x 102 cm. ....................................................... 120 Figure 6.7 Giuseppe Penone, Respirare L’ombra (To Breathe Shadow), 2000, mixed media, 468 x 549.5 x 7.5 cm. ................................................................. 121 Figure 6.8 Guy Warren, Gaia’s Refuge, acrylic on canvas, 150 x 180 cm. ................................................................... 124 Figure 6.9 Per Kirkeby, Forest – Variation 1, 1989, oil on canvas, 200 x 130 cm. ...................................................... 125 Figure 7.1 Montage of linear structures. ......................................... .. 128 Figure 7.2 Montage of Industrial Still-lifes. ......................................... 129 Figure 7.3 Breakwater, 2011, acrylic on canvas, 267 x 59 cm............ 130 Figure 7.4 Montage of port and steelworks structures. ...................... 131 6 Figure 7.5 Richard Hook, Silver, 2008, acrylic on canvas, 59 x 90 cm. ...................................................................... 132 Figure 7.6 Richard Hook, Shipping Lanes, 2008, acrylic on canvas, 64 x 69 cm. ......................................................... 132 Figure 7.7 Richard Hook, study for Blue Harbour, 2008, acrylic on canvas, 76 x 59 cm. .......................................... 133 Figure 7.8 Richard Hook, Blue Harbour, 2008, acrylic on canvas,150 x 120 cm. ....................................................... 133 Figure 7.9 Richard Hook, study for Off the Harbour, 2011, acrylic on canvas, 76 x 76 cm. ......................................... 134 Figure 7.10 Montage of ocean and sky rhythms. ................................. 134 Figure 7.11 Richard Hook, Submariner #3, 2011, acrylic on canvas, 40.5 x 40.5 cm. .................................................... 135 Figure 7.12 Richard Hook, Submariner #5, 2011, acrylic on canvas, 51 x 133 cm. ......................................................... 135 Figure 7.13 Richard Hook, Submariner #6, 2011, acrylic on canvas, 51 x 133 cm. ......................................................... 136 Figure 7.14 Richard Hook, Study for Tidal Zone II, 2008, acrylic on canvas, 60 x 45 cm. .......................................... 136 Figure 7.15 Richard Hook, Study for Tidal Zone, 2008, acrylic on canvas, 67 x 72 cm. ..................................................... 137 Figure 7.16 David Smith, O Drawing, 1957, bronze, 31 x 50 x 9 in. ................................................................... 140 Figure 7.17 Piet Mondrian, The Sea, 1912, oil on canvas, 82.5 x 92 cm. ..................................................................... 142 Figure 7.18 Piet Mondrian, Pier and Ocean 1, 1914, ink and gouache on paper, 50.2 x 62.9 cm. .................................. 142 Figure 7.19 Piet Mondrian, Pier and Ocean 2, 1914, ink and gouache on paper, 50 x 62.6 cm. ..................................... 142 Figure 7.20 Richard Hook, Jetty II, 2010, multicolour relief print on