Explore the processes and political potential of screen-printing with the experts.
The graphic art of protest, propaganda and politics took hold in Australia in the 1970s. Characterised by bold imagery, provocative slogans and vivid symbolism, this ‘alternative’ form of printmaking played a crucial role in protests, rallies and grassroots activism, amplifying the concerns of the nation’s counterculture.
FUMA’s current exhibition If you don’t fight … you lose: politics, posters and PAM revisits this era, featuring the prints and posters of the Progressive Art Movement (PAM), a small, dedicated and hard-hitting multi-arts organisation which grew out of Flinders University and was active in Tarntanya/Adelaide 1974–78.
In this special program, artist, educator and cultural activist Andrew Hill - a pivotal PAM figure whose work features in the exhibition - speaks with visual arts lecturer and printmaker Josh Searson. Don’t miss this opportunity to learn more about the most democratic form of protest art while delving into the techniques, trials and tribulations of screenprinting practices.
If you don’t fight … you lose: politics, posters and PAM
6 May – 5 July
Flinders University Museum of Art
Ground Floor Social Sciences North building
Flinders University, Bedford Park, SA, 5042
Kaurna Yerta
image: Andrew Hill, Management deliberately employ women, 1984, screenprint, ink on paper, 49.8 x 74.5 cm (image), 56.0 x 76.0 cm (sheet), Collection of Flinders University Museum of Art 2880.055
