Kongo

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Primary Artist

Tom Redston

Title

Kongo

Reference

Red Hand (2000), P33

Date made

1999

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; 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

Last Updated

04 Jan 2013