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Primary Artist
Toni Robertson (1953–)
Title
Source
The royal nuclear show.
Page or Plate number
no.5
Date made
1981
Place made
Australia, Australia, South Australia, Adelaide View on map Close map
Category
Poster
Print type
stencil
Technique
screenprint, printed in colour, from four hand-cut and three photo-stencils
Matrix size
77.4 x 51.5 cm (printed image)
Support
thin smooth off-white wove paper
Support size
82.4 x 58.0 cm (sheet)
Manufacturers mark
no manufacturer's mark
State
published state
Impression
undesignated impression as issued
Edition information
print run of 230
Production notes
The artist notes: I wanted to use the visual seductiveness of a multi-coloured screenprinted surface both to attract people to the posters and as part of the general advertising surface so important to the Show. Colour, particularly red, was used to relate and emphasise different parts within the poster and to bind the series together. Each poster has seven colours printed in the following sequence - pale blue, darker blue, red, pink (hand-cut stencils, grey, transparent yellow and black (photostencils). Two hundred and thirty sets were printed. (Toni Robertoson, 'The Royal Nuclear Show 1979-81' in Virginia Coventry (ed) The critical distance, Sydney: Hale & Iremonger, 1986, p.179.
Inscriptions or device by artist or designated agent
Titled lower left below inage in black pencil, 'THE ROYAL NUCLEAR SHOW-5'. Not signed. Not dated. Not inscribed.
Collection
National Gallery of Australia
IRN
171735
Accession number
2007.1408
Accession method
Gift
Meeting
Meeting 2, 2007/2008 (2007-10-30)
Provenance
Collection of Martin Munz, Sydney. Gift to the National Gallery of Australia, from Martin Munz, Sydney, October 2007.
Credit line
Gift of Martin Munz, 2007
Subject category
Nuclear, Power
Creators
Robertson, Toni. | (1953–) Australian | Female | artist