printmaker and socialist, was one of the 10 artists in the Melbourne Popular Art Group who produced a folio of 14 linocuts, Eureka 1854-1954 (Melbourne 1954), paying tribute to 'the stand of the Ballarat miners in the Eureka Stockade’ (copy TMAG). Ernie McFarlane was responsible for no.9, The Blacksmith , which complements another blacksmith image (no.8) by Len Gale. Both are single figures. Other works in the folio include no.11 The Sentry , an image of a miner guarding the flag at night, by Maurice Carter and no.s 2 (“Joe! Joe! The Traps are coming” , with the mine-shaft like a crucifix), 4 ( The Magistrate ) and 5 ( On Bakery Hill ) by Noel Counihan . Peter Miller also did three: nos 6 ( “Burn the Licences!” , a group of men), 10 ( The Sly Grog Seller ) and The Pikeman . Ailsa O’Connor made no.7, Building the Stockade (and erecting the flag), while Pat O’Connor did no.3, The Licence Hunt . No.13, Trampling the Flag , is by Naomi Schipp ; no.1 is a silk-screen portrait of Peter Lalor by Ray Wenban; while the last in the set, no.14 After the Battle (a mother mourning over her son’s dead body) is by Mary Zuvella .
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- Writers:
- Kerr, Joan
- Date written:
- 1996
- Last updated:
- 2007
