Waterside Workers' Federation of Australia : the Sydney wharfies mural

PXA 620/1-10

series

1993 (from originals dated 1953-1963)

Graphic Materials, Photographs

69748

Copy print : PXA 620/1-10

Photographs - 8 silver gelatin photoprints - 20 x 25 cm. - Includes 2 photocopies

"The mural represents the intertwined histories of the Australian labour movement and of the waterside workers from the 19th century, through the First World War and the Depression to the late 1930s". A key to the mural from: A Tapestry of Australia: The Sydney Wharfies Mural / Andrew Reeves. Waterside Workers Federation Sydney Port : Sydney, 1992, is kept with the collection.
1. Overall View of Mural
2. Mural Detail: Left hand panel
3. [key to no. 2]
4. Mural Detail: Central Panel
5. [key to no. 4]
6. Mural Details: Right hand panel
7. Mural: Oblique view from right of centre
8. Mural: Oblique view from left of centre
9. Painting in Mural Room no.1
10. Painting in Mural Room no.2

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"The mural was a collective effort. Conceived by Rod Shaw in 1953, it was painted over a nearly decade by a number of artists. In 1991, when the Waterside Workers' Federation Sydney Branch's building was sold, the mural was transferred from the walls of the canteen at 60 Sussex Street, Sydney to the union's new offices at 61-63 Sussex Street, Sydney". This, and further information about the mural is available in: A Tapestry of Australia: The Sydney Wharfies Mural by Andrew Reeves. Waterside Workers Federation Sydney Port : Sydney, 1992