Title
Kaspar, Nimrod
1973
printed 1982
Artist
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Details
- Dates
- 1973
printed 1982 - Media category
- Materials used
- screenprint, printed in red, green and black ink from three stencils
- Edition
- 450/1000
- Dimensions
- 58.7 x 45.0 cm image; 66.2 x 47.0 cm sheet
- Signature & date
Signed l.r., black fibre-tipped pen "Martin Sharp". Dated bot.c., black fibre-tipped pen "2.12.82".
- Credit
- Gift of Peter Kingston 2014. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 221.2014
- Copyright
- © Estate of Martin Sharp/Copyright Agency
- Artist information
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Martin Sharp
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About
Martin Sharp established a strong reputation for the originality and impact of his graphics whilst living in London during the 1960s, where he designed psychedelic posters and album covers for musicians and bands including Bob Dylan and Cream. Returning to Australia in 1972, he became more widely-known in Sydney for his establishment of The Yellow House artist's collective in Kings Cross, his role in the restoration of Luna Park and for his passionate championing of US singer Tiny Tim.
During the 1970s and 1980s Sharp was commissioned to design posters for Sydney's Nimrod Theatre. The latter, founded in 1970 by John Bell, Richard Wherrett and Ken Horler acquired a reputation during the 1970s as a home for exciting and innovative drama by a new generation of Australian playwrights.
First published individually during this period this poster and six others were reprinted as a set in 1982 as a fund-raiser for the theatre. Six of the posters were designed to promote productions (Sharp was commissioned to design 'Kaspar, Nimrod' as well as sets and costumes for Richard Wherrett's production of Peter Handke's play 'Kaspar' in 1973), while another was created to mark the 10th anniversary of Nimrod's establishment as a theatre. For this 1982 (second) edition of the posters, new stencils were made and the posters were printed on higher quality paper than the original print run. Sharp created sets and costumes for a number of Nimrod productions but is best known for the posters he produced.
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Exhibition history
Shown in 1 exhibition
Nimrod magic: 1968-1978, Sydney Opera House, Sydney, 04 Jan 2002–10 Feb 2002
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Bibliography
Referenced in 2 publications
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Ted Owen and Denise Dickson, High art: a history of the psychedelic poster, London, 1999, 140.
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Martin Sharp, Survey 14: Martin Sharp, Melbourne, 1981, n.pag.. general reference to Nimrod's production of 'Kaspar'
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