Sale 2514 - The Pride Sale, June 20, 2019

213 c TONI ROBERTSON (1953- ) Where do Correct Ideas Come From? Color screenprint poster, 20x29 3 / 4 inches, 50 1 / 2 x75 1 / 2 cm. Earthworks Poster Collective. 1977. [1,000/1,500] Robertson was a founder of the Earthworks Poster collective, a group of feminist artists at the University of Sydney in Australia from 1972 to 1979. The silkscreened works that the collective produced all had a political theme: gay and lesbian rights, aboriginal rights, protest posters and anti-nuclear imagery. They worked in an area of the University referred to as the Tin Sheds, prefabricated buildings fromWorldWar II. Ironically, she stopped producing art as a result of being poisoned by chemicals used in the poster-making process. This image promotes the Marxism Feminism Conference, in Sydney 1977. On the bottom, printed in cursive, it reads, “A cultural image from the legendary past, Tall tales and true for the Marxism Feminism Conference.” 214 c MATILDA GRAPHICS Witches and Faggots / Dykes and Poofters. Offset lithographed poster, 23x18 inches, 63x45 cm. Panacea Press, Chippendale. 1980. [800/1,200] The first Gay Pride Mardi Gras parade in Sydney, Australia was held on the evening of 24 June 1978, linked to the anniversary of the Stonewall uprising. Five hundred people turned out to celebrate, and the number eventually swelled to several thousand. Although the event had been sanctioned by the city authorities, it was still broken up by the police and 53 participants were arrested. This film, released two years after the event, documents the police brutality and the subsequent social and political upheaval which followed in the wake of the arrests that evening. 213 214