printmaker and socialist, was one of 10 artists in 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 Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery). She did the last of the set, no.14 'After the Battle’ (a Pieta-like woman mourning over a dead miner, with an older man, a child and a young man shaking his fist at the retreating soldiers beside them). No.11, 'The Sentry’ (a miner guarding the flag at night) is by Maurice Carter; nos 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; Len Gale drew no.8, 'The Blacksmith’; like Counihan, Peter Miller did three – no’s 6 (“Burn the Licences!”, a group of men), 10 ('The Sly Grog Seller’) and 'The Pikeman’; Ailsa O’Connor did no.7, 'Building the Stockade’ (and erecting the flag), while Pat O’Connor did no.3, 'The Licence Hunt’ (simplified story); 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.
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- Date written:
- 1996
- Last updated:
- 2007
