A safer community.
Title
Reference
Red Hand (2000), P35
Date made
2000
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 130
Production notes
Printer's comment: Screens produced utilising ruby pen. Printed in hemi opaque ink.
Collection
National Gallery of Australia
IRN
26479
Accession number
2000.499
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
Tom Redston needed somebody to teach the art programme as he had other duties. Since I started the program several years ago, I was the obvious choice. I instigated a print project which would tie into Tom's Ending offending art programme through the prison. We did this poster after hours for free to distribute to schools etc. Little did we know what would happen next. The (artist) Juvenile who was sent to Don Dale under the NT's mandatory sentencing laws used this poster as evidence that he was doing something positive to redress his criminal activities and had his sentence reduced as a result. Correctional Services then commissioned the next three posters (RHP 36,37,38) which they then used as an effective 'programmes' advertising campaign - They have been distributed nationally and internationally as a collection to various interest groups, affiliates, schools, judiciary departments, minister etc.
Creators
RED HAND PRINT | (1997–2000) Australian | Organisation | print workshop
GOHIER, Frank | (1968–) Australian | French | Male | printer
Correctional Services, NT. | (2000–) Australian | client