Elvis loves to party
Primary Artist
RED HAND PRINT (1997–2000)
Title
Reference
Red Hand (2000), P2
Date made
1997
Place made
Australia, Australia, Northern Territory, Darwin, Berrimah Prison View on map Close map
Category
Poster
Print type
stencil
Technique
screenprint, printed in colour, from multiple stencils
Support
Archival 200 gsm system cardboard
State
published state
Impression
undesignated impression as issued
Edition information
print run of 200
Production notes
Printer's comment: Screens produced utilising exposured photocopy.
Collection
National Gallery of Australia
IRN
26454
Accession number
2000.567
Accession method
Gift
Meeting
Meeting 3, 2000/2001 (2000-12-13)
Provenance
Gift to the National Gallery of Australia, from Franck Gohier, co-director of Red Hand Prints, Darwin, 2000.
Credit line
Gift of Franck Gohier and Shaun Poustie, Red Hand Prints 2000
Country of context
Australia
Notes
Shaun, David and myself were talking about how 'dirty' the local ALP vs CLP campaign was getting. Very cowboy style politics. So we wanted to lighten things up a bit. We came up with our own election campaign. The idea took about 5 minutes worth of 'think tank'. Shaun came up with the campaign poster idea, I contributed the ELP logo and DAve Molloy designed the Elvis image. We printed 200 up till about 11:00 pm, the night before the local election. As soon as they had dried they were packed into a combi and the fun began. I think the beers and the jazz cigarettes set everybody off. There were posters being plastered all over shop windows, the bypass to town, buses, people's car bonnets and doors, and election booths. We also did a t-shirt run that friends and associates wore on voting day.
Creators
POUSTIE, Shaun | Australian | Male | printer
MOLLOY, David | | designer
POUSTIE, Shaun | Australian | Male | designer
RED HAND PRINT | (1997–2000) Australian | Organisation | artist