Series 1: Toby Zoates - scrapbooks, artwork, personal and business papers, 1969-2002

MLMSS 7135/Box 1X
MLMSS 7135/Boxes 2-3

series

1969-2002

Graphic Materials, Textual Records, Clippings, Drawings, Ephemera, Photographs, Posters

421131

0.81 metres of textual material (2 boxes, 1 outsize box) includes photographs, posters, drawings - typescript, manuscript

Photographs and Negatives:
Col. & b&w negatives, unidentified, showing inner-city squats and squatters, friends, musical groups, graffiti, advertising hoardings, inner-city views, demonstrations, murals, animation stills. Col. & silver gelatin photoprints of Zoates working on animation projects and with a mural he designed, artwork including animation stills, film props and sets, actors and unidentified housing (some negs. and prints match up but there are more negs. than prints) (Call No.: MLMSS 7135/1X/1)

Scrapbooks:
Newscuttings, letters, newsletters and flyers documenting the "showdown" between squatters at Pyrmont Point and Sydney City Council who wanted to evict the squatters and develop the land for high density housing. Includes an original letter dated 12 May 1983 from City of Sydney Council threatening eviction to the occupier of 6 Scott Street, Pyrmont. (Call No.: MLMSS 7135/1X/2)

Anti-establishment propaganda leaflets, cartoons, newscuttings advertising Zoates' films, Anti-Authoritarian Calendar designs, posters defending gay and civil rights, flyers for homeless benefit functions, anti-uranium demonstration flyers, cartoons in newscuttings, film and book reviews in newscuttings, film launch invitations, newspaper ads for films. (Call No.: MLMSS 7135/1X/3)

1975-1976; Spiral bound drawing paper book of crayon drawings entitled "Sketches from the formative years before William Arthur Tobin became Toby Zoates" (Call No.: MLMSS 7135/1X/4)

1986; Anti-Authoritarian Calendar (Call No.: MLMSS 7135/1X/5)

1987; Anti-Authoritarian Calendar (Call No.: MLMSS 7135/1X/6)

ca. 1920s; Funny Folks Album: the Artist's Sorrows (col. printed fold-out booklet, 7 x 12 cm.) (Call No.: MLMSS 7135/1X/7)

Folder items (folders discarded):
Art exhibition flyers, photocopy of a biography/CV of Zoates', flyers and animation stills from the film "Lost in Gondwanaland", anti-establishment propaganda posters, live music flyers, posters promoting "Thief of Sydney", posters promoting "Virgin Beasts" and "Darling it Hurts", montages of cartoons and the final printed version, posters for "Dirt Opera", comic book entitled "No Future", magazine clippings, postcard featuring Zoates' artwork for the Piccolo Bar, Tin Sheds gallery invitation, poems, newscuttings of Zoates' artwork (Call No.: MLMSS 7135/2/1)

Material relating to the film "Virgin Beasts" including posters, artwork, promotional flyers, spiral bound booklet with notes about the film, Catalogue of the 1996 Freak Zone Festival in which "Virgin Beasts" screened, catalogue of the 1997 Honolulu Underground Film Festival, magazine cutting of an article on the Freak Zone Festival and "Virgin Beasts", comic book called "Terror Nullis Comix", Friends of the Earth 1977 newsletter. Also flyers and artwork for "The Thief of Sydney" and participation certificates for films entered in the American Film Festival (New York City), Wellington Film Festival, Hong Kong International Film Festival, San Francisco International Film Festival and the Los Angeles International Animation Celebration. (Call No.: MLMSS 7135/2/2)

Biography/CV (3 pages) 1949-2001, Poem "The life of an artist in Australia" (1983), Artist's statement (1 double-sided page, 1984), poem "What I'm on about in 'Virgin Beasts'" (1992), letters of acceptance and invitation to international film festivals, reviews of Zoates' films and his own synopses of all his works, posters and artwork promoting his films and other events, cartoons, original pencil sketches, ink drawings, design for the Piccolo postcard, anti-Olympics poster, comics (Call No.: MLMSS 7135/2/3)

Newscuttings, film festival programmes, film flyers, posters for Radio Skid Row, book reviews of "Being Different" by Gary Wotherspoon in which Zoates' story "Alec Farthing" was published, programmes and flyers for Byron Bay Arts and Music Festival, designs for Anti-Authoritarian calendar, AFI invitations (Thief of Sydney was a finalist film), certificate of registration for Zoates' business name "Gutter-Snipes", magazine cuttings (Call No.: MLMSS 7135/2/4)
Typescript with manuscript annotations of "Alex Farthing". This was published in the collection of stories by nine gay men growing up in Australia called Being Different / edited by Garry Wotherspoon. Sydney: Hale & Iremonger, 1996 (Call No.: MLMSS 7135/2/5)

1992; "Virgin Beasts. A part-animated Sci-Fi Musical Burlesque Film by Toby Zoates, '92" - complete storyboard and production notes (Call No.: MLMSS 7135/2/6)

Documents relating to the production of the film "Thief of Sydney", such as AFI funding applications and assessments, contracts, costings, timetables, storyboards, invoices from the AFI, kits used to promote the film to festivals, correspondence from international film festival boards such as the Krakow International Short Film, Festival. Also a contract dated 16 Dec. 1986 between Zoates and the AFI for funding of "Darling it Hurts"

Miscellaneous papers:
Miscellaneous newscuttings, chiefly regarding real-estate development and squatting issues around Pyrmont as reported in local newspapers and the Sydney Morning Herald, original artwork, Con-Feest programme, poem called "Empathy", 1984 AFI awards programme, Tin Sheds anniversary exhibition catalogue, letters of eviction from City of Sydney Council, information and meeting notes regarding activism of Pyrmont squatters (Call No.: MLMSS 7135/3/1)

Papers documenting the activism and research of Pyrmont squatters against City of Sydney Council trying to redevelop the land. Includes maps and plans of the Pyrmont area, extracts from Council reports on development proposals, newsletters, forms for establishing a housing cooperative and documents and correspondence of the Pyrmont Housing Co-Op and South West Inner Sydney Housing Co-Op. (Call No.: MLMSS 7135/3/2)

Further documents concerning Pyrmont Point and real estate development of the area. Includes rules of the Pyrmont Self Help Housing Co-Op and related papers and correspondence, legal letters between City of Sydney Council and the Co-Op and Supreme Court documents, however these are incomplete and do not indicate the outcome/judgements (Call No.: MLMSS 7135/3/3)

Newsletters of housing cooperatives of Darlinghurst, Kings Cross and Chippendale, flyers for demonstrations opposing eviction, letters and general information about the squatter "scene" of the time - ca. 1980s (Call No.: MLMSS 7135/3/4)

Artist's original ordering within albums, files and folders has been preserved. Photographs collated separately.

1985 Anti-authoritarian diary transferred to ML 320.53/3
"Darling it hurts" videotape transferred to VB 12135
"My Survival as a Deviant" videotape transferred to VB 12136
"The Thief of Sydney" and "Virgin Beasts" videotape transferred to VB 12137