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Poster
1984 (made)
Artist/Maker
Lewisham Unemployed Action Group (designer)
Deptford Community Printshop (printers)
Place of origin
Deptford (made)

Portrait poster advertising a drop in centre and meetings for the Lewisham Unemployed Action Group, based at the Albany Centre in Deptford. The poster depicts blue water with text about the unemployment centre facilities following the lines of the waves, and a smiling fishbone with some of its bones forming the initials LUAG. Above the water are bubbles containing more text, on a yellow background.


Object details

Category
Posters
Object type
Poster
Title
Materials and techniques
Poster, screenprinted using handcut stencils and photostencils, and laminated in plastic
Paper
Laminated Plastic
Screen Printing
Brief description
Poster designed and printed by Mary Doyle and Penny Davis, printed at Deptford Community Printshop, depicting a fishbone, and advertising Lewisham Unemployed Action Group, 1984
Physical description
Portrait poster advertising a drop in centre and meetings for the Lewisham Unemployed Action Group, based at the Albany Centre in Deptford. The poster depicts blue water with text about the unemployment centre facilities following the lines of the waves, and a smiling fishbone with some of its bones forming the initials LUAG. Above the water are bubbles containing more text, on a yellow background.
Dimensions
  • Height: 67cm
  • Width: 47.5cm
Dimensions include plastic laminate
Marks and inscriptions
  • 'OPEN MON-FRI 12.00-4.30 MEETINGS EVERY FRIDAY 2.00 SHARE YOUR IDEAS SKILLS INTERESTS PROBLEMS HELP BRING OUT THE POSITIVE SIDE OF UNEMPLOYMENT' (Lettered in black in three grey bubbles above the water)
  • 'COME USE OUR NEWSPAPERS, TYPEWRITER / PHONE, LITERATURE ETC... / HELP AND ADVICE WITH BENEFITS / AND WELFARE RIGHTS...' (Lettered in black, following the lines of the waves)
  • 'ALBANY CENTRE / Douglas Way, Deptford, SE8. / 6920231' (Lettered in black, in circle at bottom left of poster)
Credit line
Given by the Greenwich Mural Workshop
Bibliographic reference
From the label text of an exhibition held by the Greenwich Mural Workshop entitled 'Printing is Easy...? Community Printshops 1970-86'
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
E.482-2013

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Record createdNovember 20, 2013
Record URL
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