Bushfire Brandalism posters

PXD 1528

fonds

January 2020

Graphic Materials, Posters

9653553

40 posters (4 folders) - 180 x 120 cm

In January 2020 an art collective known as “Bushfire Brandalism” installed a series of posters in 78 bus stops in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane to protest the Australian government’s handling of the bushfire crisis, in what has been described as 'the nation’s largest unsanctioned outdoor art exhibition'. 41 artists were involved in the action, including Tom Gerrard, Amok Island, Andrew J Steel, Blends, Callum Preston, Cam Scale, Damien Mitchell, Dani Hair, DVATE, E.L.K, Ed Whitfield, FIKARIS, Fintan Magee, HEESCO, JESWRI, Ghostpatrol, Leans, Lluis fuzzhound, Lotte Smith, Lucy Lucy, Makatron, Michael Langenegger, The Workers Art Collective, Stanislava Pinchuk, Thomas Bell, and a number of anonymous artists. The artists formed the collective via a group chat on Instagram a few weeks before installing the posters, many of which were removed shortly afterwards. Each poster contained a QR code linking to a bushfire-related charity of the artist’s choice.

References:
'#BushfireBrandalism Across Sydney, Melbourne & Brisbane'. Street Art News, 3 February 2020. Accessed 12 October 2020. https://streetartnews.net/2020/02/bushfirebrandalism-across-sydney-melbourne-brisbane.html
'Full gallery of advertising posters for the Bush fire Brandalism billboard takeover, Australia 2020'. Graffiti Street, 4 February 2020. Accessed 15 October 2020. https://www.graffitistreet.com/full-gallery-of-advertising-posters-for-the-bush-fire-brandalism-billboard-takeover-australia-2020/
Library acquisition file

40 posters relating to the #BushfireBrandalism campaign.

Item 01: Climate action now!
Item 02: Joannas Beach, Victoria, the Great Ocean Road : end single use plastics!
Item 03: Be the (climate) change you want to see: political failure, corporate greed, consumer blindness, or Greta Thunbberg #howdareyou
Item 04: Climate denial : our government won't act on climate change, but we can
Item 05: Save an Aussie icon
Item 06: Help save our wildlife today
Item 07: Need to feel safe
Item 08: Let's tell our government to tell it like it is. Write to your MP and ask what they're doing in this crisis
Item 09: Sink or swim? : we need climate action now. The future is in our hands
Item 10: Say no to coal : give it up!
Item 11: See. Hear. Speak!
Item 12: Carbon Aussie carbon
Item 13: Crisis : a tribute to Yri Bulkin / Damien Mitchell
Item 14: Listen to your home : be kind, consume less, vote for a safer future & reject ignorance
Item 15: How's the serenity? : let's turn the heat down Australia
Item 16: Sell the water, dry the land, watch it burn, blame drought
Item 17: Donate to our brave firefighters today
Item 18: Merry Crisis!! : our government won't act on climate change, but we can
Item 19: Get out of dirty fossil fuel now
Item 20: Their profits over our planet burns [harms] us all
Item 21: 100 seconds to midnight : time's ticking
Item 22: Land is memory. Fund the front line. Fight for Indigenous fire management
Item 23: The only one there is : support natural climate solutions
Item 24: How do we formalise & expand on the beautiful solidarity that we see during natural disasters
Item 25: Real climate action now
Item 26: This is not business as usual. We need climate action now
Item 27: We need help. We need shelter. We need a better government
Item 28: Extraordinary : please donate and help our wildlife
Item 29: Blinky Bill and the climate crisis : support our wildlife
Item 30: Climate action now! How can we sleep when Australia's burning
Item 31: Australia we're in a world of trouble : but it's not too late to change
Item 32: Down on our luck - 2020
Item 33: 5,00 hives and millions of bees have been burnt in the fires this season across NSW. Buy Australian honey, assist beekeepers
Item 34: The [front] line has been crossed : demand real climate action now
Item 35: The land helps us, and we must help the land : support bush regeneration
Item 36: Now is our time to create a better future
Item 37: Climate is changing : listen to science
Item 38: Wake up Australia
Item 39: Don’t you forget about me …
Item 40: Well well well, if it isn't the consequences of my own inactions

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Titles from posters

Printed by Milkbar Print

Date based on start of Bushfire Brandalism campaign