Poster
1987 (made)
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Laminated, landscape oriented, colour poster depicting Canary Wharf with buildings made of piled-up coins, a blackbird reading a newspaper wearing a bowler hat perched on the coin buildings, an eagle, holding the U.S. flag and a canary, circling above with vultures.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Hand coloured photographic print on paper that has been laminated in plastic |
| Brief description | Poster encouraging local action against the proposed Canary Wharf office development, made by Docklands Community Poster Project, 1987 |
| Physical description | Laminated, landscape oriented, colour poster depicting Canary Wharf with buildings made of piled-up coins, a blackbird reading a newspaper wearing a bowler hat perched on the coin buildings, an eagle, holding the U.S. flag and a canary, circling above with vultures. |
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| Marks and inscriptions | 'CANARY WHARF IS FOR THE BIRDS'
'and for developers, speculators, stockbrokers and their financiers'
'THEIR PICKINGS-WHOSE BONES' |
| Credit line | Given by Greenwich Mural Workshop |
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| Bibliographic reference | From an exhibition by Greenwich Mural Workshop, 'Printing is Easy...? Community Printshops 1970-1986' |
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| Accession number | E.512-2013 |
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| Record created | November 20, 2013 |
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