printmaker, was one of the 10 artists of the 'Melbourne Popular Art Group’ who produced a folio of 14 linocuts, Eureka 1854-1954 (Melbourne 1954), to pay tribute to 'the stand of the Ballarat miners in the Eureka Stockade (copy TMAG). Gale drew no.8, 'The Blacksmith’. No.11, 'The Sentry’ (a miner guarding the flag at night) is by Maurice Carter ; no’s 2 (“Joe! Joe! The Traps are coming” where the mine shaft is like a crucifix), 4 ('The Magistrate’) and 5 ('On Bakery Hill’) are by Noel Counihan ; Peter Miller did no’s 6 (“Burn the Licences!”, showing a group of men), 10 ('The Sly Grog Seller’) and 12. 'The Pikeman’ (best of the three). Ailsa O’Connor did no.7, 'Building the Stockade’ (and erecting the flag); Pat O’Connor did no.3, 'The Licence Hunt’ (simplified story); and Ernie McFarlane did no.9, 'The Blacksmith’ (the second, to complement Gale’s). No.13, 'Trampling the Flag’, is by Naomi Schipp ; no.1, a silk-screen portrait of Peter Lalor is by Ray Wenban ; while the last of the set, no.14 'After the Battle’ (mother mourning over dead body), is by Mary Zuvella .
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- Date written:
- 1996
- Last updated:
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