Primary Artist

Toni Robertson (1953–)

Title

Harrisburg ghost train

Date made

1981

Category

Print

Print type

stencil

Technique

screenprint, printed in colour, from four hand-cut and three photo-stencils

Text printed from matrix

no imprint

Matrix size

77.6 x 51.4 cm (printed image)

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.

Subject category

Anti-nuclear/Atomic issues

Country of context

Australia

Legacy id

87857

Creators

Robertson, Toni. | (1953–) Australian | Female | artist