cartoonist, has been working in Melbourne since the 1970s. Harmer (p.99) illustrates her ’70s strip, Another Day, Another… . She did large editioned (131/185) silkscreen cartoon posters with RedPlanet at Melbourne in the 1990s, from when she was Artist in Residence in 1992. NGA has her poster Made to Measure , issued by Melbourne’s Red Planet Posters (Broom Factory, 144 George Street, Fitzroy) in 1992, captioned: 'so her mother gave her the knife and she cut off her toes. Queens do not need to be able to walk’. Based on the Cinderella myth, the prince looks like Prince Charles in pantomime gear and the poster 'is about the lengths to which we are prepared to go to fit the beauty myth and win the man of our dreams. This poster was produced in 1992 on a Canon Laser Colour Photocopier as part of the artist-in-residence program on issues concerning women’ (National Gallery of Australia website).
State Library of Victoria [SLV] examples include: Nip It In The Bud (1992) with a woman in her kitchen endorsing a bottle of poison while son watches TV in the background; Man’s Final Frontier (1993), showing a man wrestling with a vacuum cleaner; Why for Love (1994, SLV) – a businessman breastfeeding from a Madonna image to question why women earn so little comparatively; and Brrm Brrm (1995, SLV), a parody of a Goya child portrait (1786, National Gallery, London?) with Premier Jeff Kennett as the aristocrat Don Manuel Osario Manrique de Zuniga and toys with the faces of Lloyd Williams (Crown Casino) and Ron Walker (Melbourne Grand Prix).
National Library of Australia [NLA] (PIC Poster LOC Drawer 62) has a poster about Jeff Kennett and the Australian Formula One Grand Prix (a race first held in 1997 that Kennett won the right to hold over NSW in 1995). Published by Red Planet in 1995, it features Victorian premier Jeff Kennett, a phantom face, a face with a crown on its head and a bird cage in the design of the Victorian parliament building (according to NLA’s online Pictures Catalogue).
- Writers:
- Kerr, Joan
- Date written:
- 1996
- Last updated:
- 2007
