Mother / Sandra Wright
- Bib ID:
- 7898623
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Wright, Sandra, artist
- Online Version:
- National Library of Australia digitised item. Broadside 1308 copy
- Description:
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- Townsville, Qld, Australia : Respectfully printed in the studios of Red Rag Press, 2017
- ©2017
- 1 broadside : colour ; 63 x 36 cm
- Summary:
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One of sixteen limited edition posters produced as part of a project in which North Queensland printmakers were invited to produce a letterpress poster using their own imagery and the type and letterpress printing equipment available at Red Rag Press. This poster shows the head of the Statue of Liberty (Liberty Enlightening the World), with some of the words from Emma Lazarus' 1883 sonnet "The New Colossus" printed below (with minor changes to the line breaks): "A MIGHTY WOMAN / with a torch, whose flame is the imprisoned lightning, and her name / MOTHER OF EXILES / From her beacon-hand glows world-wide welcome."
- Biography/History:
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Red Rag Press was formally established by Sheree Kinlyside in 2006, and has generally produced fine press artists books along with some limited-edition poetry, broadsides and the occasional poster. In 2016, Sheree Kinlyside approached fourteen other Townsville artists to contribute to a poster project using the resources of her press. Arts Queensland provided a grant to help the project along with paper and to pay each artist for their production costs. Caren Florance, an artist, letterpress printer and arts lecturer from Canberra, also visited the studio for a week as artist in residence, and assisted many of the project participants to achieve their text-image collaborations. Sometimes the letterpress printed text (essentially relief printing with words instead of images) is original, sometimes the artist has used found text, written by a poet or prose writer. Sheree Kinlyside and Caren Florance also each produced a poster as part of the project, making a grand total of sixteen.
- Notes:
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- Title from accompanying documentation.
- Reduction linocut with hand set type, printed in green and black ink.
- Limited edition of 12 copies.
- National Library of Australia's copy is no. 3/12.
- Also available online https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-2357417184 Broadside 1308 copy
- Subject:
- Other authors/contributors:
- Also Titled:
- Mighty woman with a torch, whose flame is the imprisoned lightning, and her name, Mother of Exiles, from her beacon-hand glows world-wide welcome
- Terms of Use:
- Copying allowed for research, study or personal use; permission required for publishing and other public use.
- Exhibited:
- Commentary: Hand-printed Posters from North Queensland Artists, Umbrella Studio, Townsville, Queensland, 9 November 2018 - 16 December 2018.
- Copyright:
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In Copyright
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Copyright status was determined using the following information:
- Material type:
- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 2017
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