Screen print posters by Toni Robertson, Marie McMahon and the Womens Domestic Needlework Group, published by Earthworks Poster Collective, ca.1979-1982

PXD 1283

fonds

ca.1979-1982

Graphic Materials, Posters

908714

17 posters - screen print - between 76 x 56 cm. and 82.5 x 58 cm.

D'Oyley Show series. Nos. 1-4, 7-10 of a series of 10 posters designed by the Womens Domestic Needlework Group, Sydney, 1979, and printed by Earthworks Poster Collective. 79 x 51 cm.

1. Women who toiled [lacemakers]
2. The song of the skirt. Clothing production in 1903
3. The forgotten workers [housework and the decorative arts]
4. Sweating the women [outworkers]
7. Untitled [Rural women]
8. Fancy work : the archaeology of lives
9. ... That as their daughters, daughters up did grow, the needles art to their children show
10. [Working class needlework]


Pay the rent. You are on Aboriginal land / [designed by Marie McMahon]. 76 x 56 cm.

Falling in love. The immaculate deception / [designed by Marie McMahon ;] Earthworks Poster Collective, 1977. 76 x 56 cm.

Exploited in the workplace, enslaved in the home. Won't it be fine when women go out and work and both women and men are co-op members. 76 x 56 cm.

The Royal Nuclear Show [series of 6 posters designed by Toni Robertson, 1981]. 82.5 x 58 cm.

The posters by the Womens Domestic Needlework Group (members Kathy Letray, Frances Budden, Marie McMahon, Patricia McDonald and Loretta Vieceli) "were designed by the group as a whole - no individual artists, according to Marie McMahon" (note on Mitchell Library file, 1982).

According to the Powerhouse Museum, the first version of "Pay the Rent - You are on Aboriginal Land" was a limited edition of 30 prints, hand printed by the artist at Redback Graphix in Wollongong in 1981. The second edition of 150 copies was hand printed by the artist at the Lucifoil Collective at Tin Sheds in 1982 (http://www.powerhousemuseum.com/collection/database/?irn=365494#ixzz2Ke5yZdLp , accessed 12/2/2013).