Primary Artist

Frank Gohier (1968–)

Title

Captain Megalo was manic about building an empire in the far north...

Reference

Red Hand (2000), P22

Date made

1987

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 four stencils

Support

archival 200 gsm paper

State

published state

Impression

undesignated impression as issued

Edition information

print run of 130

Production notes

Printer's comment: Screens produced utilising exposured photocopy. Printed in hemi opaque ink.

Inscriptions or device subsequently added to the work

Inscribed verso lower left in black pencil, 'RHP 22'.

Collection

National Gallery of Australia

IRN

26445

Accession number

2000.513

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

This poster was plastered all over NTU in 1987 not as an anti 'southerner' mission but as an anti 'southern' attitude which was being imported along with other colonial symptoms. One of these prevalent attitudes seemed to be that while local people were good enough to do the University courses, they never cut the grade to do work there after graduating. Often local graduates would start, exciting new projects at NTU only to be swallowed up by the culture of ego and kudos. After all the pioneering work is achieved and contacts made. It is quite easy for a missionary wanker or two to reappropriate historical fact and carry on with obvious megalomanic empire building, tendencies. As with all parasitical organisms, the host does not fare to well in the end.

Creators

RED HAND PRINT | (1997–2000) Australian | Organisation | print workshop

GOHIER, Frank | (1968–) Australian | French | Male | artist

GOHIER, Frank | (1968–) Australian | French | Male | printer