2018 POSTERS
Yes, Love is Hard Work, (detail) 2018 Public Art Installation, Castlemaine, VIC Australia
Title: Yes, Love is Hard Work
Year: 2018
Installation: 4 May - 14 June
Medium: 62 Hand printed posters on 90gsm litho
Location: Mechanics Lane,
(opposite the Castlemaine Library)
Castlemaine, Victoria, Australia
This work is the second of a series of works commissioned by the Mount Alexander Shire Council for the popular lane way.
LINCOLN & VENICE
Lincoln and Venice is a delicate, meticulous drawing that documents the nails, staples and remnants of street posters from three street poles at the intersection of Venice and Lincoln Boulevards, Los Angeles, California.
Wendy Murray, Lincoln and Venice, 2018
This print, developed from a drawing, forms part of a body of work responding to the closure of the seminal Colby Poster Printing Company (1948 to 2012).
Researching the Colby archive, at The International Printing Museum, left more questions than answers and pushed me out, beyond the museum, onto the pavement – where few Angeleños care to walk. Hours spent on L.A. buses, trains and footpaths – in search of long lasting, elusive, Colby posters in their natural habitat. Eventually wandering to the corner of Lincoln and Venice. A stark observation. There should be remnants of posters here. But there wasn't. No posters on these poles – only the relics; a multitude of nails, staples and remnants of posters firmly implanted in the wood structure. Perhaps this was the history I needed to document? The slow demise of screen printed, letterpress and even digital posters from the street corners of Los Angeles.
Size: 55 x 35 cm (14" x 22")
Edition: 40
Medium: Screen print on metallic paper
Published by the students Pasadena City College, with direction from master printer John Miner, professors Kristin Pilon and David Cuatt.
