The Yellow House, Sydney, 1971 / photographed by Greg Weight

PXD 1395

fonds

1971

Graphic Materials, Photographs

1165407

20 photographic prints - 48 x 33 cm - digital, colour

Greg Weight, born 1946, is a professional photographer based in Sydney. The beginnings of his career were associated with The Yellow House (Kings Cross, N.S.W.) which was an artists' collective founded by artist Martin Sharp. Other members of the collective included Dick Weight, George Gittoes, Brett Whiteley, Bruce Goold, Ellis D Fogg, Peter Kingston, Albie Thoms, Greg Weight, Peter Weir, Georgia Kelso, Peter Powdich, Little Nell and Jonny Lewis.

Between 1970 and 1973, the Yellow House was a piece of living art and a mecca to pop art. The canvas was the house itself and almost every wall, floor and ceiling became part of the gallery. Many well-known artists helped to create the multi-media performance art space that may have been Australia’s first 24 hour-a-day ‘happening’.

Reference:
Library correspondence file

20 digital photographs, printed on cotton rag paper, of interiors and exterior of the Yellow House, Sydney, N.S.W., 1971.

1. The Yellow house, 1971
[The Yellow House 1971, painted collectively by volunteers and resident artists]

2. The Stone Room
[Conceived by Martin Sharp, painted by Peter Kingston, stoneware on table by George Gittoes' mother Joyce Gittoes]

3. Paolozzi Print stairwell
[The stairwell, ascending from the ground floor with Eduardo Paolozzi prints that Martin [Sharp] brought back from England on the wall]

4. Spooky Land - Kinetic Light Room by Peter Wright
[Ultra violet & kinetic light installation]

5. Footsteps on the road to the Yellow House by Martin Sharp

6. Martin Sharp in the Footsteps room
[With 'artoon': 'Blueboy in Sofala']

7. The Infinity Room Greg Weight and Julia Sale
[Greg Weight's Infinity photographs, with feather chair and table by Julia Sale]

8. The Puppet Theatre by George Gittoes

9. Franklin Johnson's Hallway
[With door through to Greg Weight's Infinity Room]

10. The Entrance Hall
[With 'Fantomas' painting on wall and mirror framed 'artoons']

11. The Belgium Salon by Bruce Goold
[Magritte Room with Belgium Salon]

12. Hokusai screen by Dick Weight

13. The Magritte Room
[Dedicated to Surrealism, designed by Martin Sharp an decorated by resident artists]

14. The Magritte Room

15. Margritte [i.e Magritte] Room II

16. The Stairwell up

17. Rembrandt by Brett Whiteley
[The annex to the Magritte Room exhibited Brett Whiteley's portrait of Rembrandt]

18. Yellow House Collage 1
[depicting (from left to right) Peter Luck filming ; Entrance ; Bonzai room; Garry Shead ; Bonzai Tree ; Magritte Room No. 2 ; Whiteley Branch ; Outside front ; Detail ; Bonzai room ; Brett unloading Rembrandt ; Sam Bienstock ; Outside ; Magritte No. 2]

19. Yellow House Collage 2
[depicting from left to right: Brett unloading Rembrandt ; Bliss and Bruce clowning ; Nick Lyon's violin ; Karen Hobbs ; Bliss ; Greg Wight's Infinity photographs ; Bruce Goold ; Wendy Whiteley ; Worker ; Moth ; Stone Room ; Slavka (volunteer helper) ; David Litvinov ; Dick Weight, Peter Kingston, albie Thomas and David Litvinov in courtyard ; Nick Lyon ; George Gittoes ; George Gittoes and Franklin Johnson ; Johnny Lewis ; Mick Glasheen getting a ticket
; Julien]

20. Yellow House Collage 3
[depicting from left to right: Brett with Rembrandt ; Poetry reading ; The Magritte Room ; Karen Hobbs and Sebastian Jorgensen ; Tim Burns' Mary in the Bathroom ; Brett Whiteley and Peter Wright ; Peter Kingston with his 'Elephant Geodesic Dome' ; George Gittoes' Puppet Theatre ; Martin Sharp, Tim Burns and Bruce Goold ; Greg Weight and Albie Thomas ; Peter Kingston ; Martin Sharp ; Brett with Rembrandt ; The Cloud Room Jam session ; Martin ; Moth]

Copyright status:: In copyright - Life of creator plus 70 years
Copyright holder:: Greg Weight
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Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales

Photographs titled, dated, and signed below image
Descriptions of photographs (in square brackets) supplied by Greg Weight

Reference:
Library correspondence file

Embossed stamp of photographer 'GW' pressed on each photograph.