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Details
- Date
- 1986
- Media category
- Materials used
- screenprint on chalk coated Bristol board
- Edition
- 9/40
- Dimensions
- 100.3 x 60.1 cm image; 116.5 x 77.8 cm sheet
- Signature & date
Signed and dated l.r., pencil "S. Robinson 86".
- Credit
- Purchased 1987
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 490.1987
- Copyright
- © Sally Robinson
- Artist information
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Sally Robinson
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About
One of my few city based landscapes, this print was created to celebrate the arrival in the southern hemisphere of Halley's Comet. Rather a disappointment in itself - dwarfed by the lights and activity of the city.
It was a different world in Sydney in 1986 - we were terrorism free and people took responsibility for their own actions. So it was possible for a friend who worked at the airport to arrange for me to lie down at the end of the runway to photograph the undercarraige of a jumbo jet as it screamed overhead.
Artist's statement, 2006
© Australian Art Department, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 2006
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Exhibition history
Shown in 2 exhibitions
Harbour hymns, city songs: visions of Sydney from the collection, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 13 Jan 1990–11 Mar 1990
Sydney Prints: 45 years of the Sydney Printmakers, S.H. Ervin Gallery, The Rocks, 19 Aug 2006–24 Sep 2006
Sydney Prints: 45 years of the Sydney Printmakers, Hawkesbury Regional Gallery, Windsor, 09 Feb 2007–11 Mar 2007
Sydney Prints: 45 years of the Sydney Printmakers, Tamworth City Gallery, Tamworth, 24 Mar 2007–29 Apr 2007
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Bibliography
Referenced in 2 publications
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Anne Ryan (Curator), Sydney prints: 45 years of the Sydney Printmakers, Sydney, 2006. List of works.
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Kay Vernon, Harbour hymns, city songs: visions of Sydney from the collection, Sydney, 1990. cat.no. 81
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