Meet the nuclear family
Primary Artist
Toni Robertson (1953–)
Title
Meet the nuclear family
Date made
1981Category
Print type
stencil
Technique
screenprint, printed in colour, from four hand-cut and three photo-stencils
Text printed from matrix
no imprint
Matrix size
77.4 x 51.3 cm (printed image)
Edition information
print run of 230
Production notes
The artist notes: I wanted to use the visual seductiveness of a multi-coloured screenprinted surface both to attract people to the posters and as part of the general advertising surface so important to the Show. Colour, particularly red, was used to relate and emphasise different parts within the poster and to bind the series together. Each poster has seven colours printed in the following sequence - pale blue, darker blue, red, pink (hand-cut stencils, grey, transparent yellow and black (photostencils). Two hundred and thirty sets were printed. (Toni Robertoson, 'The Royal Nuclear Show 1979-81' in Virginia Coventry (ed) The critical distance, Sydney: Hale & Iremonger, 1986, p.179.
Subject category
Anti-nuclear/Atomic issues
Country of context
Australia
Legacy id
87853
Creators
Robertson, Toni. | (1953–) Australian | Female | artist
Last Updated
06 Jan 2013
Impressions
Collection
National Gallery of Australia | 82.1803.3
State
published state
Impression
undesignated impression as issued
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