Shooting gallery

Primary Artist

Toni Robertson (1953–)

Title

Shooting gallery

Source

The royal nuclear show

Page or Plate number

no.2

Date made

1981

Place made

Australia, Australia, South Australia, Adelaide View on map Close map

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Category

Poster

Print type

stencil

Technique

screenprint, printed in colour, from four hand-cut and three photo-stencils

Matrix size

77.2 x 51.6 cm (printed image)

Support

thin smooth off-white wove paper

Support size

82.4 x 57.8 cm (sheet)

Manufacturers mark

no manufacturer's mark

State

published state

Impression

undesignated impression as issued

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.

Inscriptions or device by artist or designated agent

Titled lower left below inage in black pencil, 'THE ROYAL NUCLEAR SHOW-2'. Not signed. Not dated. Not inscribed

Collection

National Gallery of Australia

IRN

171732

Accession number

2007.1405

Accession method

Gift

Meeting

Meeting 2, 2007/2008 (2007-10-30)

Provenance

Collection of Martin Munz, Sydney. Gift to the National Gallery of Australia, from Martin Munz, Sydney, October 2007.

Credit line

Gift of Martin Munz, 2007

Creators

Robertson, Toni. | (1953–) Australian | Female | artist

Last Updated

11 Jan 2013