Heavy industry : a suite of etchings, 1991 / George Gittoes

PX*D 335

fonds

1991

Graphic Materials, Prints

840368

1 portfolio (24 prints) - 31.7 x 24.5 cm (image size), on sheet 35.7 x 40 cm - etchings

The collection summarises the artist's work while artist-in-residence, 1988-1990, recording the daily lives of workers at BHP's Whyalla, Port Kembla and Newcastle steelworks, the mines at Broken Hill, and the oil rigs in Bass Strait.

Contents list available in the Mitchell Library Reading Room -

Information transferred from pictures card catalogue as part of the eRecords Project, 2008-2009

The etchings were exhibited in George Gittoes Heavy Industry exhibition, 7 June-21 July 1991, Mitchell Galleries, a catalogue of which is filed at PXn 806.

Originals of six etchings (ff. 18, 22, 8, 3, 13, 4) were received as part of the same accession, now filed at V1B/Newc/6; XV1B/Newc/1; ML 1020, ML 1021; ML 1022; and ML 1024. For details and locations of other material included in Pic.Acc.7026, see Picture Source File.

1285 (35mm) colour slides taken by George Gittoes for his BHP Heavy Industry series are located at PXA 1567/Boxes 1-2

8 colour photographs processed from the slides for George Gittoes Heavy Industry exhibition are filed at PXD 599. The photograph to which ML 1020 and PX*D 335, f. 8 relates is filed at PXD 599, no. 5; PX*D 335, f. 10 relates to PXD 599, no. 1

All are signed in pencil 'George Gittoes' at lower right; printed by Basil Hall, Studio One Printmaking workshop, Canberra. Twenty three are dated in pencil '91' at lower right. All are titled beneath image in pencil; portfolio is stamped with title as above.

The suite is numbered one of a limited edition of sixty sets; each print is numbered in pencil '1/60' at lower right