Two person push / Caren Florance
- Bib ID:
- 7898721
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Florance, Caren, 1967-, artist, printer
- Online Version:
- National Library of Australia digitised item. Broadside 1313 copy
- Description:
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- Townsville, Qld, Australia : Respectfully printed in the studios of Red Rag Press, 2017
- ©2017
- 1 broadside : black and white ; 71 x 50 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. Caren Florance notes: "I saw the phrase '2-Person Push' on the stairs that were used to board the plane to Townsville and the phrase echoed in my head for the whole of my residency. Red Rag Press has a number of press magnets: strong enough to hold type in place instead of the usual clamps, which are not common in Australia. I decided to play with the freedom they gave me to move letters around the press bed and escape the usual straight-line constraints. The poster is about people working closely together, like Sheree and I with this project, but simultaneously also about the kind of negotiations between people that are necessary in divisive situations."
- 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.
- Limited edition of 5 copies.
- National Library of Australia's copy is no. 3/5.
- Also available online https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-2357396161 Broadside 1313 copy
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- 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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- Material type:
- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 2017
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