Art Sets.
See you at the barricades: Declarations
By the Art Gallery of NSW
AGNSW collection Redback Graphix, Gregor Cullen Women and arts festival 1982
https://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/collection/works/97.1983/
Political poster collectives blossomed around the world in the late 1970s and ’80s. Presented here is work by radical Australian poster collectives that formed around this time, as well as a recently acquired suite of posters by the notorious Guerrilla Girls.
Together, these works engage with political issues that remain relevant in our time, from youth unemployment to the poor representation of women in art galleries. The posters are by turns funny, angry and earnest. Bound together by their declamatory style, they represent the most direct form of political art. Yet they do not embody a single attitude or position. The range of works feature many conflicting messages. In their very directness, these posters expose the cracks within what is often called left-wing politics.
AGNSW collection Redback Graphix, Michael Callaghan, Gregor Cullen Australian Vietnam Society 1982 calendar 1981
https://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/collection/works/96.1983.a-d/
AGNSW collection Chips Mackinolty, Earthworks Poster Collective Land rights dance 1977
https://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/collection/works/379.1977/
AGNSW collection Redback Graphix, Michael Callaghan If the unemployed are dole bludgers, what the fuck are the idle rich? 1979
https://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/collection/works/85.1983/
AGNSW collection Guerrilla Girls Irish not a Feminist 2010
https://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/collection/works/150.2014.84/
AGNSW collection Guerrilla Girls Bronx Museum unfair to men 2008
https://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/collection/works/150.2014.80/
AGNSW collection Guerrilla Girls Disturbing the peace 2009
https://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/collection/works/150.2014.82.a-b/
AGNSW collection Guerrilla Girls Dear art collector Chinese 2008
https://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/collection/works/150.2014.78/
AGNSW collection Guerrilla Girls Intercepted by the Guerrilla Girls 1999
https://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/collection/works/150.2014.63/
AGNSW collection Guerrilla Girls Estrogen Bomb 2003
https://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/collection/works/150.2014.70/
AGNSW collection Guerrilla Girls Trent L'ottscar billboard 2003
https://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/collection/works/150.2014.68/
AGNSW collection Guerrilla Girls The estrogen bomb update 2012
https://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/collection/works/150.2014.86/
AGNSW collection Guerrilla Girls Irish toast 2010
https://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/collection/works/150.2014.83/
AGNSW collection Guerrilla Girls What I want for Mother's Day 1991
https://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/collection/works/150.2014.35/
AGNSW collection Guerrilla Girls Do women have to be naked to get into the Met. Museum? 1989
https://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/collection/works/150.2014.24/
AGNSW collection Guerrilla Girls The future for Turkish women artists 2006
https://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/collection/works/150.2014.74/
AGNSW collection Guerrilla Girls Unchain the women directors billboard 2006
https://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/collection/works/150.2014.73/
AGNSW collection Guerrilla Girls Women's terror alert 2003
https://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/collection/works/150.2014.69/
AGNSW collection Guerrilla Girls Benvenuti alla Biennale Femminista, project for the Venice Biennale 2005
https://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/collection/works/150.2014.71/
AGNSW collection Guerrilla Girls MoMA Mia!!! 13 years and we're still counting, with postcard sent to MoMA 1997
https://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/collection/works/150.2014.57.a-b/
AGNSW collection Guerrilla Girls Birth of Feminism poster 2001
https://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/collection/works/150.2014.66/
AGNSW collection Guerrilla Girls Guerrilla Girls explain the concepts of natural law 1992
https://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/collection/works/150.2014.41/
AGNSW collection Guerrilla Girls Horror on the National Mall 2007
https://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/collection/works/150.2014.75/
AGNSW collection Guerrilla Girls Dear art collector 2007
https://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/collection/works/150.2014.76/
AGNSW collection Guerrilla Girls ARTFORHIM 1994
https://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/collection/works/150.2014.47/
AGNSW collection Guerrilla Girls We sell white bread 1987
https://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/collection/works/150.2014.17/
AGNSW collection Guerrilla Girls Guerrilla Girls review the Whitney 1987
https://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/collection/works/150.2014.15/
AGNSW collection Guerrilla Girls Museums cave in to radical Feminists 2008
https://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/collection/works/150.2014.81/
AGNSW collection Guerrilla Girls What's the difference between a prisoner of war and a homeless person? 1991
https://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/collection/works/150.2014.34/
AGNSW collection Guerrilla Girls Hormone imbalance, Melanin deficiency 1993
https://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/collection/works/150.2014.44/
AGNSW collection Guerrilla Girls Anatomically correct Oscar billboard 2002
https://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/collection/works/150.2014.67/
AGNSW collection Guerrilla Girls Dearest Art Collector 1986
https://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/collection/works/150.2014.8/
AGNSW collection Guerrilla Girls Where are the women artists of Venice? project for the Venice Biennale 2005
https://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/collection/works/150.2014.72/
AGNSW collection Guerrilla Girls Brooklyn landmark 1999
https://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/collection/works/150.2014.62/
AGNSW collection Guerrilla Girls Gender reassignment 2012
https://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/collection/works/150.2014.85/
AGNSW collection Alison Alder, Redback Graphix When they close a pit they kill a community 1984
https://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/collection/works/467.1988/
AGNSW collection Redletter Press, Bob Clutterbuck Save the Franklin. Damn the government 1982
https://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/collection/works/311.1982/
AGNSW collection Marie McMahon Pay the rent: you are on Aboriginal land 1982
https://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/collection/works/204.1982/
AGNSW collection Redback Graphix, Gregor Cullen Fresh blood 1983
https://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/collection/works/103.1983/
AGNSW collection Redback Graphix, Michael Callaghan Onward Christian soldiers: marching back through time 1979
https://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/collection/works/87.1983/
AGNSW collection Redback Graphix, Michael Callaghan What now Mr Mao. DANCE? 1979
https://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/collection/works/86.1983/
AGNSW collection Redback Graphix, Michael Callaghan Salt of the Earth 1980
https://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/collection/works/89.1983/
AGNSW collection Lucifoil Poster Collective, Bob Clutterbuck Wooloomooloo mural project 1981
https://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/collection/works/314.1982/
AGNSW collection Guerrilla Girls 3 white women, 1 woman of color and no men of color - out of 71 artists? 1997
https://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/collection/works/150.2014.56.a-b/
AGNSW collection Guerrilla Girls Only 4 commercial galleries in NY show black women 1986
https://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/collection/works/150.2014.13/
AGNSW collection Guerrilla Girls How many women artists had one-person exhibitions in NYC art museums last year? 1985
https://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/collection/works/150.2014.3/
AGNSW collection Guerrilla Girls Which art mag was worst for women last year? 1986
https://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/collection/works/150.2014.14/
AGNSW collection Guerrilla Girls It's even worse in Europe 1986
https://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/collection/works/150.2014.7/
AGNSW collection Guerrilla Girls Guerrilla Girls' Pop Quiz 1990
https://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/collection/works/150.2014.29/
AGNSW collection Guerrilla Girls You're seeing less than half the picture 1989
https://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/collection/works/150.2014.26/
AGNSW collection Guerrilla Girls How long did it take to loot South Central L.A? 1992
https://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/collection/works/150.2014.39/
AGNSW collection Guerrilla Girls Republicans do believe in a woman's right to control her body 1992
https://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/collection/works/150.2014.37/
AGNSW collection Guerrilla Girls Traditional values and qualities return to the Whitney Museum 1995
https://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/collection/works/150.2014.51/
AGNSW collection Guerrilla Girls Top ten signs that you're an artworld token 1995
https://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/collection/works/150.2014.48/
AGNSW collection Guerrilla Girls Election year iottery. You gotta play to win 1993
https://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/collection/works/150.2014.45/
AGNSW collection Guerrilla Girls What do these men have in common? 1995
https://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/collection/works/150.2014.53/
AGNSW collection Guerrilla Girls The Internet was 84.5% male and 82.3% white until now 1996
https://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/collection/works/150.2014.54/
AGNSW collection Guerrilla Girls Under surveillance this year 1986
https://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/collection/works/150.2014.9/
AGNSW collection Guerrilla Girls These galleries show no more than 10% women artists or none at all 1985
https://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/collection/works/150.2014.2/
AGNSW collection Guerrilla Girls Women in America earn only 2/3 of what men do 1985
https://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/collection/works/150.2014.6/
AGNSW collection Guerrilla Girls These critics don't write enough about women artists 1985
https://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/collection/works/150.2014.4/
AGNSW collection Guerrilla Girls What's new and happening at the Guggenheim for the discriminating art lover? and Dear Mr. Krens postcard 1992
https://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/collection/works/150.2014.42.a-b/
AGNSW collection Guerrilla Girls How many works by women artists were in the Andy Warhol and Termaine auctions at Sotheby's? 1989
https://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/collection/works/150.2014.20/
AGNSW collection Guerrilla Girls Bus companies are more enlightened than NYC art galleries 1989
https://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/collection/works/150.2014.21/
AGNSW collection Guerrilla Girls Guerrilla Girls' definition of a hypocrite 1990
https://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/collection/works/150.2014.30/
AGNSW collection Guerrilla Girls Oh! The joys of being a woman playwright! 1999
https://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/collection/works/150.2014.61/
AGNSW collection Guerrilla Girls Hold onto your wallets! Cross your legs! 1992
https://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/collection/works/150.2014.40/
AGNSW collection Guerrilla Girls Supreme Court Justice supports right to privacy for gays and lesbians 1992
https://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/collection/works/150.2014.43/
AGNSW collection Guerrilla Girls If you're raped, you might as well "relax and enjoy it," because no one will believe you 1992
https://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/collection/works/150.2014.38/
AGNSW collection Guerrilla Girls Guerrilla Girls demand a return to traditional values of abortion 1992
https://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/collection/works/150.2014.36/
AGNSW collection Guerrilla Girls Who is this slimy creature? 1995
https://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/collection/works/150.2014.52/
AGNSW collection Guerrilla Girls Guerrilla Girls hits list 1986
https://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/collection/works/150.2014.10/
AGNSW collection Guerrilla Girls Hidden agender/Passing the bucks 1986
https://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/collection/works/150.2014.11/
AGNSW collection Guerrilla Girls What do these artists have in common? 1985
https://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/collection/works/150.2014.1/
AGNSW collection Guerrilla Girls John Russell thinks things are getting better for women artists 1985
https://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/collection/works/150.2014.5/
AGNSW collection Guerrilla Girls When racism and sexism are no longer fashionable, how much will your art collection be worth? 1989
https://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/collection/works/150.2014.23/
AGNSW collection Guerrilla Girls At last! Museums will no longer discriminate against women and minority artists 1988
https://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/collection/works/150.2014.19/
AGNSW collection Guerrilla Girls We've encouraged our galleries to show more women and artists of color. Have you? 1989
https://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/collection/works/150.2014.22/
AGNSW collection Guerrilla Girls The advantages of being a woman artist 1988
https://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/collection/works/150.2014.18/
AGNSW collection Guerrilla Girls Guerrilla Girls' code of ethics for art museums 1990
https://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/collection/works/150.2014.28/
AGNSW collection Guerrilla Girls Guerrilla Girls' identities exposed! 1990
https://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/collection/works/150.2014.27/
AGNSW collection Guerrilla Girls Montgomery, Alabama 1955? 1991
https://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/collection/works/150.2014.31/
AGNSW collection Guerrilla Girls Missing in action 1991
https://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/collection/works/150.2014.32/
AGNSW collection Guerrilla Girls Token times 1995
https://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/collection/works/150.2014.49/
AGNSW collection Guerrilla Girls Guerrilla Girls' 1986 Report Card 1986
https://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/collection/works/150.2014.12/
AGNSW collection Guerrilla Girls What's fashionable, prestigious and tax deductible? 1987
https://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/collection/works/150.2014.16/
AGNSW collection Richard Bell Pay the rent 2009
https://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/collection/works/203.2010.a-b/
https://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/artsets/egfpud/print