printmaker, was one of ten socialist artists in the 'Melbourne Popular Art Group’ who produced a folio of fourteen linocuts, Eureka 1854-1954 (Melbourne 1954). They pay tribute to 'the stand of the Ballarat miners in the Eureka Stockade’ (copy Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart, Tas). Schipp did no.13, Trampling the Flag ; Ailsa O’Connor did no.7, Building the Stockade (and erecting the flag), and no.14 After the Battle (a mother mourning over dead body with young man cursing retreating troops), while the last in the set is by Mary Zuvella. The rest are by men.
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