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210414
  • Title
    Earthworks Poster Collective silkscreen posters, 1974-1980
  • Creator
  • Call number
    PXX 51
  • Level of description
    fonds
  • Date

    1970s
  • Type of material
  • Reference code
    210414
  • Physical Description
    136 posters (7 folders) - silkscreen prints - ranging from 14 x 30 cm to 96 x 120 cm
  • Scope and Content
    PXX 51/Folder 1
    1. Grog Shop Hop, Wiseman's Ferry, Windsor, Dural. Mark Arbuz, 1975
    2. Utopian Technology Fair. Mark Arbuz + Stephen Stokes, 1978
    3. Drawings by Leslie Wilkinson. Mostyn Bramley-Moore, 1974
    4. Sydney University Art Workshop 1977 [Calendar]. Ben Bruen, 1977
    5. Jug Band Music. Ben Bruen, 1977
    6. Tal Al Zaatar. Michael + Mary Callaghan, 1978
    7. An Artist, like a Soldier without politics is an Assassin! Michael Callaghan, 1978
    8. The Stolen Land: Israel is occupied Palestine! Michael + Mary Callaghan, 1978
    9. Smash uranium police states! Michael Callaghan, 1977
    10. Sydney Uni art workshops - Art classes for free - local residents! Michael Callaghan, 1976
    11. Women are you afraid to go out at night? Join us in a night-time march - protest against this curfew. Jan Fieldsend, 1979
    12. International Women's Day March, Rally, Dance. Jan Fieldsend, 1978
    13. Watch for the info-van, a free on-the-street neighbourhood resource providing a wide variety of information for workers and residents of the inner city. Jan Fieldsend, 1978
    14. Victoria St., April 1973 to now: bribery, thuggery, one week evictions, intimidation [etc.]. Barbara Hall and Jan Mackay, 1976
    15. Foundation for Aboriginal Affairs Debutante Ball, Wentworth Hotel Grand Ball Room. Nick Hollo, 1975
    16. Black Film Festival, Redfern. Nick Hollo, 1975
    17. The Sun. Official! Uranium income to finance mutation research. Colin Little + Chips Mackinolty, 1977
    18. Acupressure first aid points. Colin Little, 1977
    19. Fat Chance Promotions proudly present Desperate Straits, Balmain Town Hall. Colin Little, 1976
    20. Down to Earth. A shaping of alternatives: getting it together. Colin Little, 1976

    PXX 51/Folder 2
    21. [Untitled. Depicts male figure, probably Sydney University Vice-Chancellor Bruce Williams]. Colin Little, 1976
    22. Friends of the Tin Sheds art union for Sydney University art workshop. Colin Little, 1976
    23. St. Vitus Dance? Roundhouse, NSW University. Colin Little, 1975
    24. The Bark, Nimbin. Colin Little, 1975
    25. You are cordially invited to cut through the art baloney - join the Womens Art Registry. Jan Mackay and Barbara Hall, 1976
    26. 2 new films from black Australia: My survival as an Aboriginal by Essie Coffey, Robin Campbell - Old Fella Now by Alec Morgan, Backroads by Phil Noyce. Jan Mackay, 1980
    27. Hurricane David appeal for Dominican Republic. Jan Mackay, 1979
    28. Free fabric painting workshop at South Sydney Womens Centre. Jan Mackay, 1979
    29. Women propose ... a new feminist cinema. A season of recent films by Australian women. Jan Mackay, 1978
    30. Stop the freeways! Chips Mackinolty, 1974
    31. Attica - the film of the prison revolt. Sydney University. Chips Mackinolty, 1974
    32. Peace in Vietnam. A salute to the people of Indochina. Teachers Federation. Chips Mackinolty, 1974
    33. The defeat of Labor is not the end - it is just the beginning ... Organise! Chips Mackinolty, 1975
    34. No to nuclear weapons yes to nuclear disarmament [written in French and English]. Chips Mackinolty, 1975
    35. Stop the repression in Chile rally. Venceremos [we shall be victorious]. Chips Mackinolty, 1975
    36. Organic Festival Australia - shaping the alternatives. Chips Mackinolty, 1976
    37. Women and history, NSW History Teachers' Association. Macquarie University. Chips Mackinolty, 1975
    38. They shoot G.G.s don't they? Protest, Newport. Chips Mackinolty, 1976
    39. Uncle Bob's Band returns to the Tin Sheds with "Billy T". Chips Mackinolty, 1976
    40. Devastating portrait of President Nixon in "Millhouse", Emile de Antonio's savagely-comic indictment of Nixon. Chips Mackinolty, 1976

    PXX 51/Folder 3
    41. Tomorrow's bacon [image of a policeman]. Chips Mackinolty, 1976
    42. Art & language. Cur Piggy Prefect. Auckland City Art Gallery. Chips Mackinolty, 1976
    43. sharpeville - soweto ...[includes poem]. Chips Mackinolty, 1977
    44. woolloomooloo, a film by Denise White, Pat Fiske & Peter Gailey, plus The Settlement by Gill Leahy & Push On by Pat Fiske & Lee Chittick. Chips Mackinolty, 1977
    45. Dance Black Lace. Balmain Town Hall. Proceeds to Peter Tobin Aboriginal Scholarship Foundation. Chips Mackinolty, 1977
    46. Eviction Notice, Cockroach Realty. Chips Mackinolty, 1977
    47. Central Intelligence Agency Postercard. Chips Mackinolty, 1977
    48. 1978 Sydney University Art Workshop [Calendar]. Chips Mackinolty, 1978
    49. Stop the rot! SOS rally to save the ABC, Hyde Park. Chips Mackinolty, 1978
    50. East Timor fights on ... Indonesian troops out now! Chips Mackinolty, 1978
    51. The CIA & ASIO in Australia, presented by MU Communist Club. Chips Mackinolty, 1978
    52. Poster show from Earthworks Poster Collective, Tin Sheds, Sydney Uni. Chips Mackinolty, 1979
    52. Needlework demonstrations, Sydney University Art Workshop. Mark McMahon, 1976
    53. A rose by another name doesn't always smell the same. Marie McMahon, 1977
    54. Needlework Skill Exchange. Marie McMahon, 1977
    55. Rape affects all women! Rape Crisis Centre for help, information and support. Marie McMahon, 1978
    56. Sometime soon they'll need a gun, a rape crisis centre, consciousness raising. Marie McMahon + Michael Callaghan, 1977
    57. Smoking is a lace hazard. Marie McMahon + Frances Bunden, 1979
    58. Hire him. He's got great legs. Sydney University Feminists. Tony (sic.) Robertson, 1975
    59. Spare Rib. Women's news magazine. Toni Robertson, 1976
    60. Pow! Never underestimate the power of a woman. Toni Robertson, 1977

    PXX 51/Folder 4
    61. Where do correct ideas come from? They come from social practice ... egghead feminists and other useless theorists get fucked! Toni Robertson, 1977
    62. This poster would look much better on a billboard or railway station than in an art gallery. Only big business can afford access to public space. Do you think it's a capitalist plot? Toni Robertson, 1977
    63. Tea and yellowcake. Don't mine uranium. They will do anything we let them get away with. Toni Robertson, 1977
    64. Getting it together (A Women's Liberation Conference!). Toni Robertson, 1978
    65. "The challenge of change". Health and welfare students conference, Adelaide University Union. Toni Robertson, 1978
    66. Artist-in-Residence Project 1979, University of NSW. Toni Robertson, 1979
    67. International Women's Day march on March 11th. Toni Robertson, 1979
    68. Dance - Uncle Bob's Band. Proceeds for International Women's Year. Toni Robertson + Julie Bishop, 1975
    69. Right on sisters. Toni Robertson + Julie Bishop, 1975
    70. Dance for Elsie, Balmain Town Hall. Proceeds for Elsie Women's Refuge. Toni Robertson + Julie Bishop, 1976
    71. Still life with overtones. Toni Robertson and Chips Mackinolty, 1976
    72. Walls sometimes speak. An exhibition of political posters. Toni Robertson + Chips Mackinolty, 1977
    73. The Screws, not the Prisoners, should go to Hell ... Keep Katinga closed! Toni Roberston + Jan Mackay, 1979
    74. [Untitled. Depicts Sydney Opera House shells as turtles]. John Stanton, 1973
    75. A warning to green grocers [Ho Chi Minh]. Paul Worsted, 1975
    76. Settlement: Chippendale/Redfern Neighbourhood Centre. Paul Worsted, 1976
    77. We accuse Mayor Meers + Co. of acts of terrorism against homeless and defenceless poor people. Toby Zoates, 1979
    78. Blood on the Streets: Glebe Is./White Bay arrest support dance, Balmain Town Hall. 1979
    79. Rape - an assertion of power? Forum. 1974
    80. Camp NSW Seminar: Female homosexuality. 1974

    PXX 51/Folder 5
    81. Black Theatre Art and Cultural Centre, Redfern. 1974
    82. Do the poor have the right to life - fight the Lusher Motion. 1974
    83. Fight the capitalist jackasses. Smash US Imperialism. 1974
    84. Festival for reconstruction of Nicaragua. Committee for Reconstruction of Nicaragua. 1974
    85. Rape Crisis Centre. 24hrs help, information, support by women for women. 1975
    86. This is an erection we women dont need. Help us save this house from demolition. Demonstrate for community child care ... womens refuge. 1975
    87. Don't vote it only encourages them. Sydney Anarchists, 1975
    88. East Timor speaks! Hear Mr Abilio Araujo, Teachers Federation Auditorium. Campaign for Independent East Timor, 1975
    89. GLP! A journal of sexual politics. Argentine GLF Transsexuality Darwin & Women. 1975
    90. Jobs & learning situations available for Aborigines with the Aboriginal Housing Company Murawina Program. Vivien [Ford?]. 1975
    91. A Feminist Show, Cell Block Theatre, East Sydney Tech. "Clitoris", 1975
    92. Protest the public t'port rip-off! Action for Public Transport, 1975
    93. Zimbabwe. Victoria Chitepo speaks. 1975
    94. Free speech in Leichhardt. Remove council bans, free access by local political gropus to public halls. No DLP policy for ALP. 1975
    95. Bluegrass & Traditional Country Music Society shall gather at the middle shed, Fine Arts Workshop, City Rd. 1975
    96. Aboriginal Art Exhibition. 1975
    97. Are prisoners getting legal rights. Hear Jim Staples and Tom Kelly speak. 1975
    98. Demand our right! Pol. Economy Movement. 1975
    99. Stop autocratic university administration. Political Economy Movement. 1975
    100. Chile, September 11. Two years of torture and murder. S.American Activists, 1975

    PXX 51/Folder 6
    101. May 1st, International Workers' Day. Anarchists, 1976
    102. [Untitled. Logo of] S.U. Fem. Medical Students, 1976
    103. Let us re. public Australia! Help get Australia on its own feet. Become a citizen for democracy. Citizens for Democracy, 1976
    104. Reinstate Paul Roberts. Political Economy Movement, 1976
    105. Political economy. Resolve or resign. Political Economy [Movement], 1976
    106. The Rebel. Australian Republican Movement. 1976
    107. South Sydney Child Care Week. S.Syd Community Aid, 1976
    108. Stop Indonesian aggression against East Timor. Recognise Fretilin. 1976
    109. People don't talk about it ... a discussion and demonstration film on male and female masturbation plus Push On, a radical bicycle film. 1976
    110. Workers Councils. Towards socialism, workers defense (sic.), workers democracy, workers control. 1976
    111. Student, staff, worker control forum. Syd. Uni. SRC. 1976
    112. Demonstrate in solidarity with the Chilean Resistance. S.American Activists, 1976
    113. Vote Fraser for a new Australia [Malcolm Fraser wearing Nazi insignia]. 1977
    114. Education is always a political event. Radical Education Group. 1977
    115. La Historia es nuestra [It's our history]. Unidad Popular [Popular Unity], Sydney. S.American Activists, 1977
    116. If the unemployed are dole bludgers then what the fuck are the idle rich? 1977
    117. Marxist-Feminist Conference, Sydney University. 1977
    118. Education - a right for all. Join in the fight against Fraser's cutbacks. 1977
    119. Prison films. We're alive St. Therese. Prisoners. Home. Prisoners Action, 1978
    120. Free art classes for local residents. Syd. Uni. Art Workshop, 1978

    PXX 51/Folder 7
    121. Getting married 1958 to 1978. It hasn't changed a bit it's still the same old patriarchy. 1978
    122. Hands off uranium Uncle Scrooge. Uranium is a threat to the people! Not the people's treasure. 1978
    123. Save the seals. Greenpeace, 1978
    124. Keep abortion legal & safe. 1978
    125. Mulawa makes women sick! Women Behind Bars, 1978
    126. Every child has the right to food, housing and adequate health care. They need your support. S.American Women in Sydney, 1978
    127. Our power lies in organisation. Support builders labourers for democratic control. BLF, 1978
    128. To fight racism, sexism, capitalism. Maori and Pacific Peoples Revolutionary Front, 1978
    129. The first Tin Sheds students show. S.U. Art Workshop Students, 1978
    130. Uranium. Women's silent protest, Martin Place. 1978
    131. South Coast Tribune Festival, Wollongong. The Tribune Collective, 1979
    132. First increased funding for public libraries solidarity ball, Randwick Town Hall. NSW Friends of the Library, 1979
    133. This is a werning (sic.). The struggle's not over. Don't cop the cutbacks. Meeting. 1979
    134. Gay Anniversary Ball. S.U.Gays, 1979
    135. Stop Frazer's '79 budget. March and rally. 1979
    136. [Untitled. Depicts distressed woman self-injecting. N.d.]
  • System of arrangement
    Works by single artists are ordered alphabetically by artist surname, anonymous works or prints attributed to a Collective are then arranged chronologically
  • General note

    Reference source:
    Australia's First: A Pictorial History of the University of Sydney, 1850-1990 / Kenneth Cable et. al. Sydney: University of Sydney, 1994
    Transferred from PXD 889, 13 November 2023
  • Signatures / Inscriptions

    Artist or Collective's name handwritten in pencil on reverse of most images; the remainder are marked as "anon"
    Year of composition handwritten in pencil on reverse of most images
    "Earthworks Poster Collective" -- appears on most prints in various locations
  • Conservation note

    Some posters have tears.
  • Creator/Author/Artist
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  • Exhibited in

    Australian Inspiration - State Library of New South Wales (8 July - 27 September, 2015). Applies to: f. 74
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