Kongo
Primary Artist
Title
Reference
Red Hand (2000), P33
Date made
1999
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; hand-coloured
Support
paper
State
published state
Impression
undesignated impression as issued
Edition information
print run of 125
Production notes
Printer's comment: Printed in Hemi opaque ink
Collection
National Gallery of Australia
IRN
26477
Accession number
2000.542
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
Things werre tensing up in Timor with a huge military presence in Darwin. The feely, touch crowd at Kongo would soak in the seabreeze and dance while there were war ships parked all around our 'chilled' venue. The pier represented is not the wharf at Darwin were Kongo is but it is the Nightcliff pier were Tom and myself dive off every afternoon in the dry season. After diving for a while we would notice that a little while after we dived off the pier that others would some follow. We apply this observation to our everyday lives and have since, called this phenomena 'the lemming factor'. I think Tom does not think much of the Kongo crowd.
Creators
KONGO | Organisation | client
RED HAND PRINT | (1997–2000) Australian | Organisation | print workshop
GOHIER, Frank | (1968–) Australian | French | Male | printer
REDSTON, Tom | | artist