print;
portfolio
- Museum number
- 2014,7088.7.3
- Title
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Object: 1917
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Series: The Sydney Morning, vol. 1
- Description
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A semi-abstract image of an interior wall printed in pink-red with black stripes. A circular badge hangs on the wall with an image of a boxing kangeroo in the centre under the title "THE FIGHTING KANGAROO", with the slogan "LET 'EM ALL COME" beneath. A picture frame in the shape of Australia hangs below this, containing the image of a woman's naked legs against a corrugated fence. There are bright yellow borders on the left and right sides of the sheet. 1989
Screenprint on wove paper
- Production date
- 1989
- Dimensions
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Height: 285 millimetres (image, irreg)
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Height: 285 millimetres (sheet, irreg)
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Width: 220 millimetres (irreg)
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- This screenprint comes from the first of four portfolios of prints by Richard Tipping titled 'The Sydney Morning', volumes 1-4, published between 1989 and 1994. It is one of 12 screenprints included in volume 1, which was published in 1989. In his notes on the prints, included in the portfolio, Tipping has written of this work: "'1917' is based on a photograph by Maze Turner of a wall in the house where I lived in Adelaide in 1978. An Australia-shaped frame circa 1917 held a black & white photograph of a nude model in high heels by a corrugated fence, the photo taken by an Adelaide woman circa 1977. The house belonged to Ted Strehlow, one of the disenfranchised children of T.G.H. Strehlow, author of 'Songs of Central Australia'. Ted, who visited annually from Melbourne, made sure that there were no native trees or bushes growing in the large garden. The badge showing 'Big Red', a kangaroo trained to box, is a 1917 pro-war artefact from SA."
All the prints in this volume were screenprinted by Richard Tipping and Shaw Henry on Magnani Pescia paper for Thorny Devil Press in Newcastle, Australia. The BM copy is numbered 24 in pencil on the frontispiece/colophon. The volume was printed in an edition of 60 but only the first 50 were boxed in sets.
For more information on 'The Sydney Morning' series and volume 1 specifically, see 2014,7088.7.1.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 2014
- Acquisition notes
- Presented by the artist
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 2014,7088.7.3