Skip to main content

Canine capers VII 1969-79

Artwork has not been digitised or not available due to pending copyright clearence, thus not currently available online
Accession No.
2022.078
Date Created
1969-79
Gallery location
Not on public display
Department
Australian Art
Dimensions A
151.5 x 152.5cm
Media Category
Painting
Medium
Synthetic polymer paint on canvas
Place Created
Melbourne
Credit Line
The James C. Sourris AM Collection.
Gift of James C. Sourris AM through the Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art Foundation 2022. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program

Robert Rooney was a painter, conceptual artist and photographer, best known for his hard-edge abstract paintings based on the shapes and patterns of ephemera from his suburban life in Melbourne. The bright, sharp, repetitive and entirely enigmatic Canine capers VII 1969–79 takes its repeated, rounded shape from the cut-out crafts once printed on boxes of Kellogg’s Corn Flakes. Designed to form toy animal mobiles, Rooney morphed them into a kind of visual music in a pun that conflated the words ‘cereal’ and ‘serial’.

Citations

Copy citation

Rights information

© Robert Rooney Estate

Re-use metadata

Catalogue data as JSON

Share

Exhibitions featuring this object

Ross Manning’s Spectra XIII 2017, installed for ’Courage and Beauty’, GOMA, September 2021 / The James C. Sourris AM Collection. Gift of James C. Sourris AM through the Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art Foundation 2023. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program / © Ross Manning / Photograph: J Ruckli, QAGOMA

‘Courage and Beauty’

Sep 2022 - Jun 2023

Reproduction requests

Images of artworks on this website may be used for research, study and other related exceptions as defined by section 40 of the Copyright Act 1968 (as amended) without applying for specific permission. All other uses of the content of this site (where applicable).  Refer these requests to reproductions. For more information, see copyright and reproductions on the QAGOMA website.