Australian War Memorial
The Quarantine Poster Series was made during my time in quarantine, March 2020. Having to spend 2 weeks in a tiny studio apartment in Newtown, Sydney was challenging! Especially after just completing an action packed residency at The KALA Art Institute, and solo exhibition in Berkeley, USA. The posters are remixed from the incredible, extensive archive of posters at The Australian War Memorial Museum.
Propaganda: A selection of posters from the Australian War Memorial, displays many of the key posters designed to inflame public opinion and fashion public thinking during the war and, in some cases, generate a wave of recruits. The artworks have come from the Australian War Memorial collection - which has one of the world’s largest collections of historic propaganda posters.
The exhibition also includes commissions from three contemporary artists: Alison Alder, Wendy Murray and Jake Holmes, who responded to posters in the AWM the collection.
Propaganda is co-curated by Danny Lacy Senior Curator MPRG and Alex Torrens, Curator of Art, Australian War Memorial. Exclusively presented at MPRG, this project is timed to commemorate the centenary of the First World War 1914-1918.
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Setting the headline
The poem set in Stephenson Blake Grotesque
IT'S A WRAP is a response to the Second World War Soviet TASS window posters in the Australian War Memorial poster collection. For the text element of the poster, I've collaborated with local letterpress printer Matt Tilbury (The Tilbury Press) and expert type designer Kristian Molloy. The poster and drawings will be exhibited alongside commissioned works by poster legend Alison Alder, emerging artist Jake Holmes and propaganda posters from the Australian War Memorial. Propaganda, 20 April - 8 July 2018 at the Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery.
IT'S A WRAP, (preliminary sketches) 12cm x 16cm, ink and gouache on museum board, 2018