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Details
- Date
- 1979
- Media category
- Materials used
- colour screenprint on thin white wove paper
- Dimensions
- 73.0 x 48.7 cm image; 78.8 x 51.0 cm sheet
- Credit
- Purchased 1981
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 175.1981.6
- Copyright
- © Marie McMahon and Frances (Budden) Phoenix with the Women's Domestic Needlework Group
- Artist information
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Women's Domestic Needlework Group, Sydney
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- Artist information
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Marie McMahon
Works in the collection
- Artist information
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Frances Phoenix
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About
This poster acknowledges and celebrates Australian indigenous women working in the traditional practices of basketry, weaving, beading, netting and shell work. The exhibition catalogue features illustrations of pandanus mats and string figures, explaining the symbolism of specific forms and representations of tjukurrpa.
The poster 'Aboriginaland. Land rights, not mining' features a combination of text, a photograph of a young woman from Yirrkala, hand-drawn bottlebrush motifs, and a reproduction of Marie McMahon's own cotton d’oyley. Worked in filet crochet and adorned with beads, McMahon wrote of her creation, 'I designed this piece as an alternative view of white Australia, showing who it really belongs to'. The gridlike lace features a map of Australia, gum leaves, emus and emu tracks.
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Exhibition history
Shown in 5 exhibitions
Project 39 - Women's Imprint (1982), Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 01 Oct 1982–31 Oct 1982
Watters Gallery: 50th anniversary exhibition, S.H. Ervin Gallery, The Rocks, 19 Sep 2014–02 Nov 2014
See you at the barricades, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 30 May 2015–29 Nov 2015
Ewa Pachucka 'Arcadia: Landscape and bodies', Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 03 Mar 2018–29 Apr 2018
20th-Century galleries, lower level 1 (rehang), Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 20 Aug 2022–2023
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Bibliography
Referenced in 2 publications
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Macushla Robinson, See you at the barricades, 'An introduction', pg.2-10, Sydney, 2015, 5, 12 (colour illus.), 47. illustration is a detail
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Anna Waldmann, Project 39 - Women's Imprint, Sydney, 1982.
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