teatowel artist, was born in British Columbia, Canada on 7 July 1950. She moved to Australia in 1982. From the late 1980s she was working in the Blue Mountains making colour screenprints on fabrics with Eliza Campbell (born Melbourne, 10 May 1959), especially tea towels. They worked as 'LODWICK[C copyright sign]AMPBELL’, and ran a stall at Paddington markets. Joan Kerr had their 'Joan could tell it was a red herring’ teatowel purchased at Gleebooks in the late 1980s for $16.00. Their best-known teatowel is probably Older Than the Hills 1988, a 1950s model suburban housewife hanging out the washing on a Hills Hoist (Powerhouse Museum).
The most elaborate is undoubtedly their tea-towel triptych, The Pioneers , a domestic icon that reuses McCubbin’s painting of (nearly) the same name in the NGV. It was produced in 1990 in an edition of 25 with the assistance of an Australia Council Grant and shown at aGOG in Earthly Delights: a group exhibition about the environment from 18 August to 6 September 1990 (10% sales to Greenpeace). One in a large rustic wood frame used to be in the Crothers collection but was returned to aGOG in the late 1990s. For International Women’s Day 1991, Lodwick and Campbell produced a white on black T-shirt and a tea towel called Blessed Art Among Thou Women . Helen Maxwell was their agent at aGOG, until the creative partnership split up in the 1990s.
- Writers:
- Kerr, Joan
- Date written:
- 1996
- Last updated:
- 2007
