A safer community.

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Title

A safer community.

Reference

Red Hand (2000), P35

Date made

2000

Place made

Australia, Australia, Northern Territory, Darwin, Berrimah Prison View on map Close map

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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

Last Updated

08 Jan 2013