35-650: Cossington is the name of: In Australia Cossington (Turramurra) , a heritage-listed house in the Sydney suburb of Turramurra In England Cossington, Kent , a small settlement in Kent, home of a possible megalithic site Cossington, Leicestershire , a village in the Soar Valley in Leicestershire Cossington, Somerset , a village on
70-462: A chair, beds made and unmade, windows and wardrobes open or shut - are imbued with spiritual everlastingness by the vibrancy of colour and light, a juncture of the ordinary and the sublime... " "Juxtaposed pure colours, applied with a distinctive broad brushstroke, depict intimate views of her home, light-filled and spiritual. She described her work as "expressing form in colour, colour vibrant with light - but containing this other, silent quality which
105-554: A few of them before selling on, including: Grace Smith is born in 1892 at Neutral Bay to English migrant Ernest Augustus Smith and Grace (née Fisher), the second of five children. The extended name "Grace Cossington Smith" appears on her baptism entry at St Augustine in Neutral Bay. Her mother encouraged her to adopt it as part of her identity as an artist and she began actively using it in her twenties as her preferred way of being recognised, personally and professionally. In 1895
140-527: A general statement of delight in the morning's silent annunciation of each new day, and its purification of inner space is also apparent. There are dreams and memory of a mother, father, sisters, brother and friends. Bedroom stillness, pain and death are present, but so too is sleep - as a source of renewal and revivification. "Interior in Yellow" is a rare philosophical meditation upon the unerotic bedroom, chaste but filled with psychic shimmer. And by contrast there
175-412: A great Australian city. "Her later work often takes its subject matter from the house and garden at Cossington , where her first studio, from 1914, was a hut built for her in the garden; then in 1939 a studio was added to the house itself. The late paintings evoke the lives of several women, artist friends, a sister who was a nurse, and their World War II activities, including church-going. The fact that
210-485: A rough hewn stone fire surround. The house stands in a mature garden of dense-leafed evergreens, pines, azaleas and camellias, with a wide gravel brick-edged drive in good condition. The front fence repeats the style and structure of many fences in Ku-Ring-Gai Avenue, with overlapping palings and squared timber coping. There are heavy wrought iron gates in rectangular and diamond pattern. The door from
245-623: Is also likely to be considered of at least local heritage significance for its historical relationship with the Quakers in NSW. The place has a strong or special association with a person, or group of persons, of importance of cultural or natural history of New South Wales's history. As the adult home of Grace Cossington Smith and the subject of many of her finest paintings, Cossington is of State heritage significance for its association with this leading twentieth century Australian artist. Cossington
280-516: Is also of local heritage significance for its previous use as a Quaker meeting house, still apparent in the wooden lined ceilings in the room now used as living room and dining room. Cossington is also of local heritage significance for its association with Cossington Smith's father Ernest Augustus Smith, a lawyer who was the NSW Solicitor General 1891–1894 (before buying the house). He also led his professional association of notaries
315-444: Is also of local heritage significance for its unusual timber-lined meeting room originally used for Quaker meetings, for its associations with Cossington Smith's eminent lawyer father Ernest Smith, for its architectural qualities as a Federation bungalow designed by Nixon & Allen, and for its garden contributing to the streetscape. "I am not sure there is another artist in the entire history of Australian art for whom there can be
350-489: Is also the unquiet crackle of tense, bounce-back energy surging between inwardness and the outside world. The body was cracking up but Grace was still high-spirited." "I was curator of Australian art at the Art Gallery of New South Wales in the 1960s and 70s, and prepared the touring exhibition that in 1973 first brought Grace Cossington Smith's work to an Australia-wide audience. I am now retired, as Emeritus Director of
385-462: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Cossington (Turramurra) Cossington is a heritage-listed residence located at 43 Ku-Ring-Gai Avenue, in the Sydney suburb of Turramurra , New South Wales , Australia. It was designed by Nixon and Allen and built in 1899. It is also known as Sylvan Fells and Sylvan Falls . The property
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#1732779855812420-510: Is privately owned. It was added to the New South Wales State Heritage Register on 18 August 2006. Originally a timber-getting area settlement begun in 1822 until after 1850 when the orchardists came to occupy extensive landholdings producing a variety of citrus and other fruits including persimmons, custard apples and Chinese pears. The Turramurra railway station was opened on 1 January 1890. The suburb
455-463: Is probably the best Australian woman artist of any century, and the best Australian artist of any kind working in the 1920s and 30s. Her later work, more profound and inward than the earlier work, cannot be compared with the very different work of great artists like Sidney Nolan or Fred Williams, but is equal to theirs in excellence. All her paintings have extraordinary vitality; they live, and they express joy in living in an Australian bushland suburb and
490-480: Is the portion around Ku-ring-gai Avenue and Boomerang Street and a number of houses listed in the Sands Directory of 1903 are found here. Shops appeared from 1912 and Chinese gardens, that disappeared after World War II . Ku-ring-gai Avenue was owned by a few prominent people. Thomas Cosh, the architect designed and built a number of houses here, possibly as a speculative builder and developer, and lived in
525-405: Is unconscious, and belongs to all things created". "'Interior in Yellow' was begun [probably in 1962]... Like the ecstatic, abstract draperies that fill Old Master paintings, the rumpled bed cover and unspecific cloths are devices that connect the spectator to a surge of visual and emotional energy... "The fullness and density of light and air in a particular contained space are certainly here, but
560-571: The Art Gallery of South Australia . Last year when the National Gallery of Australia prepared another major touring exhibition of Cossington Smith's work I contributed essays to the exhibition book, and I have since further reconsidered her work. "I would submit a stronger case, for national as well as State heritage significance. "I now believe that Grace Cossington Smith is more than "a leading twentieth-century Australian artist". She
595-613: The Allowah Estate in Turramurra is subdivided ( Cossington will be built on Lot 12). In 1899 the house was designed by Nixon and Allen for W. J. Baker. Named Sylvan Fells , it has an unusual timber lined meeting room which is used for Quaker meetings. According to Quaker researcher Jenny Madeline, William John Baker was a trustee for the Quaker Burial Ground established at Rookwood Necropolis in 1902 following
630-643: The Polden Hills between Bridgwater and Street in Somerset [REDACTED] Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles about distinct geographical locations with the same name. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Cossington&oldid=860554528 " Category : Place name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
665-404: The back veranda, making it perhaps the most intact room in the house. In the living room, the original fireplace is graced with its original mantle clock and two period drawings of GCS's forebears titled "Great grandfather Smith" and "Great grandmother". Modifications since 1979 are minor and largely reversible if desired. As at 27 September 2006, as the adult home of Grace Cossington Smith and
700-511: The following criteria. The place is important in demonstrating the course, or pattern, of cultural or natural history in New South Wales. Cossington is likely to be of state heritage significance for its association with women's history in NSW. Cossington Smith's art works represent a widespread but especially feminine perspective on Australian culture – as viewed from the interior of an upper middle-class suburban house. Cossington
735-555: The for a time. "The profession, and the community service, might be considered characteristic of those who lived in the highland suburbs on the North Shore Line". The place is important in demonstrating aesthetic characteristics and/or a high degree of creative or technical achievement in New South Wales. Cossington is of local heritage significance for its architectural qualities as a Federation bungalow designed by Dixon & Adam, and for its garden and contribution to
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#1732779855812770-435: The house, before the artist's father bought it, had been built as a Quaker meeting house, helped reinforce the sacramental delight in simple living that fills the artist's paintings." "I am not sure there is another artist in the entire history of Australian art for whom there can be the same two-fold association of firstly, a house in which the artist lived for entirety of a career - more than six decades - and secondly, where
805-412: The inner, vibrant living force of all matter so well captured by Cossington Smith in the vivid contrasts of red and green and of solid and broken form in the furniture of "The Lacquer Room" [ c. 1935 ], has been described by Mary Eagle as a unifying theme in the work of many Australian artists of the time. For Cossington Smith, though, light was to become both the symbol of her Anglican beliefs and
840-425: The inspiration and method of her painting'... Commenting on the use of her characteristic square brush style, she said: "I use squares because I feel that in that way that light can be put into the colour".... In her most sophisticated paintings, her later depictions of interiors, Cossington Smith was to give the fleeting moment the awe and dignity of a lasting monument. Small moments of daily living - clothes strewn on
875-593: The interior structure itself - ie the rooms inside - formed the basis of subject matter pursued with magnificent and profoundly spiritual dedication over that time." "[Listing Cossington on the SHR] is a wonderful gesture to a very important Australian artist whose work relates so closely to her own home and its surrounds." A Federation period home with fine timber detailing and an unusual timber lined meeting room. A large single storey Federation style house constructed of red open kiln bricks with blue brick dressings along
910-399: The line of the window ledges and above the windows. Mitre slate roof with lead ridging. There are four decorative chimneys of red and blue bricks. Strong veranda details include turned posts, delicately incised timber brackets and lattice valance. The interior features an impressive kauri board lined central meeting room with a fine cedar screen with decorative leadlight panels and
945-411: The new kitchen (previous spare bedroom) to the back veranda is original and unusual in that the joinery makes the shape of a cross (this may be a remnant of significance to the original Quaker occupants). The door into Cossington Smith's former studio (in the south eastern corner of the house) is significant as it had been the door to her studio in the garden and was moved to its new position when she moved
980-493: The nightwatchman. The gaslights were lit each evening by the gaslighter. Those with very large properties kept cows for instant milk supply. Many dairies were established and the milkman delivered twice a day. By 1920 fruit fly put an end to all commercial growing of fruit on the North Shore and the land were converted into Chinese gardens. The most expensive subdivision, of lots of 4.0 hectares (10 acres) or more available,
1015-542: The resumption of the Devonshire Street Cemetery for Central railway station . He had had another house built to the design of Nixon and Allen at 37 Kuringai Ave Turramurra in 1897. Cossington Smith later would say that the house at Turramurra had been designed for "'Mr Baker the Quaker' as a dwelling that could also function as a Quaker lodge, a kind of church". "Henri Bergson's theory of vitalism,
1050-425: The same two-fold association of firstly, a house in which the artist lived for entirety of a career – more than six decades – and secondly, where the interior structure itself – ie the rooms inside – formed the basis of subject matter pursued with magnificent and profoundly spiritual dedication over that time." Cossington was listed on the New South Wales State Heritage Register on 18 August 2006 having satisfied
1085-444: The streetscape. The room that was the Quaker meeting room is also of aesthetic significance for its impressive kauri-board ceilings with fine cedar screen and decorative leadlight panels, as well as its rough hewn stone fireplaces. The place has potential to yield information that will contribute to an understanding of the cultural or natural history of New South Wales. As the long-time home of one of Australia's leading artists and
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1120-409: The studio into the house. The major dark wood furniture in the dining room is largely the same as when Cossington Smith lived there - a large bookcase with many art books that had been owned by Cossington Smith, the dining table and chairs and the large sideboard, as well as the mantle clock over the original fireplace. This room also contains its original french doors leading from the living room to
1155-452: The subject of many of her finest paintings, Cossington is of State heritage significance for its association with this outstanding twentieth century Australian artist. Cossington is also of State significance for its association with women's history in NSW in so far as Cossington Smith's art works represent an especially feminine perspective on Australian culture – as viewed from the interior of an upper middle-class suburban house. Cossington
1190-645: The subject of many of her finest paintings, Cossington is of State significance with respect to its research potential for art historians. [REDACTED] This Misplaced Pages article was originally based on Cossington , entry number 01763 in the New South Wales State Heritage Register published by the State of New South Wales (Department of Planning and Environment) 2018 under CC-BY 4.0 licence , accessed on 2 June 2018. [REDACTED] Media related to Cossington, Turramurra at Wikimedia Commons Rookwood Necropolis Too Many Requests If you report this error to
1225-481: Was then known as Eastern Road and it was nearly a year later on 14 December 1890 that Turramurra was named after the Aboriginal word meaning "high hill". The construction of the railway brought immediate progress. In 1881 the population was only 142, by 1891 it was 788 and in 1901 1,306. There was no electricity until 1927, water was piped from Wahroonga Reservoir and the outside loos were regularly emptied by
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