A preponderance of Aboriginal blood : sixteen etchings with chine collé / by Judy Watson
- Bib ID:
- 8149225
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Watson, Judy, 1966-, artist
- Printer:
- China : Printed by 1010 International.
- Description:
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- [Paddington, Queensland] : Grahame Galleries + Editions : Numero Uno Publications, ©2019
- ©2019
- 44 pages (two folded) : colour illustrations ; 31 x 22 cm
- ISBN:
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- 9780958599443
- 0958599440
- Summary:
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Judy Watson initially declined when she was invited by the State Library of Queensland to create an artist's book to mark the centenary of women's suffrage in Queensland, and more specifically forty years of Aboriginal suffrage, but after she first heard Loris Williams use a phrase drawn from the archive, 'a preponderance of Aboriginal blood,' in an April 2005 lecture entitled 'Caste-ing the vote: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander voting rights in Queensland,' she felt compelled to produce her original limited edition book, which reproduces thirteen archival documents (one reproduced twice), each seemingly stained with blood.
This new offset printed publication introduces the book to a wider readership. It includes: reproductions of the 15 etchings from Watson's original book; the 9 page 1897 Queensland Act of Parliament 'The Aboriginal Protection and Restriction of the Sale of Opium Act'; an 8 page essay 'The wounds of the repressed' by freelance writer and curator Michele Helmrich; and a foldout Queensland Timeline, comprising lists of selected white townships established each decade from 1825 to 1900, selected Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islands missions and reserves established from 1838 to the closure of the last mission in 1987, and some Acts and decisions impacting on Aboriginal peoples in Queensland from 1825 to 1967.
- Partial contents:
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- The wounds of the repressed / Michele Helmrich
- Timeline / Noreen Grahame.
- Notes:
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- Editor: Anne Kirker ; photography: Carl Warner; design: Michael Phillips. -Colophon.
- Published in an edition of 1,000 of which 100 include a limited edition etching, 'Inspection tour' (2019), signed by the artist, printed by Basil Hall and Rebecca Drew at Basil Hall Editions, Braidwood, numbered 1/80 to 80/80, plus 20 hors commerce numbered hc 1/20 to hc 20/20.
- National Library of Australia's SR copy is no. 7/80.
- Binding:
- Reverse quarter bound, section sewn, square backed. Cover printed one colour with deboss and foil title to upper board.
- Subject:
- Other authors/contributors:
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- Helmrich, Michele, writer of added commentary
- Grahame, Noreen, writer of added text
- Kirker, Anne, editor
- Warner, Carl, photographer
- Phillips, Michael, 1972-, book designer
- Hall, Basil, 1954-, printer
- Drew, Rebecca, printer
- Grahame Galleries & Editions, issuing body
- Numero Uno Publications, issuing body
- Basil Hall Editions, printer
- 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:
- 2019
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