NSW music and event posters, by Paul Worstead

PXD 1670

fonds

1979-2000

Graphic Materials, Posters

9684318

30 posters - sheet 77 x 52 cm - screen print on paper, colour

Paul Worstead (1950-) is a pioneering graphic design artist based in Sydney, New South Wales. He completed a diploma of sculpture at East Sydney Technical College in 1974 and has had a long association with Mental As Anything, having met the band members in art school. He designed album covers for a number of well-known Australian recording artists, including Mental As Anything, the Sports and Stephen Cummings. In 1971, Worstead launched the clothing label Ashtray, he then created Jimmy Jones Souvenirs, and started designing for Mambo in 1985.

Worstead’s exhibitions include Paper Tigers: Posters from Sydney’s Long 70s, National Art School, Sydney, 2019; Walls sometimes speak: an exhibition of political posters, Watters Gallery, 1977; Right Here Right Now Australia, Museum of Contemporary Art [Brisbane], 1988.
Reference: Library acquisition file

1. Chippendale festival dance : Roadmasters, Husbands, [1979]
2. Christmas festival [Agent 99], [1980]
3. Christmas festival [Maxwell Smart], [1981]
4. Christmas festival [Sigfried], [1984]
5. Irony takes a holiday : one monkey with one typewriter, Tin Sheds, [2005]
6. Magnetics : Southern Cross Hotel, Sundays [1980]
7. Magnetics : Illinois Hotel, Five Dock, [1982]
8. Mental as Anything and Electric Fanz and Clint and the T’s, New Settlement, Chippendale, [1979]
9. Mental as Anything : Get Wet, [Greedy Smith], [1979]
10. Mental as Anything : Get Wet, [Wayne de Lisle], [1979]
11. Mental as Anything : Get Wet, [Martin Plaza], [1979]
12. Mental as Anything : Get Wet, [Peter O’Doherty], [1979]
13. Mental as Anything : Get Wet, [Reg Mombassa], [1979]
14. Mental as Anything : Confectionary and Violence Tour, Pier Hotel, Frankston, [1980]
15. Mental as Anything : Enfield Boulevard Hotel, [1980]
16. Mental as Anything : Creatures of Leisure, [Greedy Smith], [1982]
17. Mental as Anything : Creatures of Leisure, [Reg Mombassa], [1982]
18. Mental as Anything : Creatures of Leisure, [Martin Plaza], [1982]
19. Mental as Anything : Creatures of Leisure, [Peter O’Doherty], [1982]
20. Mental as Anything : Creatures of Leisure, [Wayne de Lisle], 1982]
21. Mental as Anything : Creatures of Leisure, the new album and tour, [1983]
22. Regret is better than bitterness because it’s nicer, Civic Hotel, [2000]
23. Settlement dance with Scarlet and XL Capris, [1979]
24. [Sports : Sondra album design], [1981]
25. Stephen Cummings : We all Make Mistakes, [1982]
26. Gymnasium : Stephen Cummings, [1984]
27. Speak With Frankness : Stephen Cummings, [1986]
28. Stephen Cummings and Love Town, [1991]
29. Surfside 6 : Can’t You See the Sign, [1981]
30. Whole hog : Animal Liberation Benefit, Trade Union Club, [1984]

In copyright:
Copyright holder:: Paul Worstead
Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales and Courtesy Paul Worstead