Red Hand Prints: Poster Retrospective

Upcoming Exhibitions:

Activate - Cultivate (Red Hand Prints)

7 October - 19 February 2012

 Franck Gohier

 Untitled

 February 1999

 Hemi ink on archival system card

 PR 00443

 Gift of Red Hand Prints, 2002

 Image courtesy of Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory

The exhibition Activate–Cultivate presents artworks made in Darwin about Darwin. The works, all drawn from the Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory (MAGNT) permanent collection, consist of posters created between 1997 and 2002 by the local open-access printmaking studio Red Hand Prints.

The imagery and style used by the artists are bold, accessible and immediately recognisable elsewhere, making these graphic works engaging wherever they are shown. The posters in this exhibition offer a brief but perceptive take on local issues and local concerns, exploring not only art created in direct relation to its environment but also what it is to be an artist in that environment. In a small capital like Darwin, they provide an historical record of political ideas, social events and artistic concerns in a community known for its transience, while also contributing significantly to the substantial body of prints produced by Indigenous and non-Indigenous artists in the NT.

A Museum & Art Gallery of the Northern Territory exhibition