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Old age isn't calm

Poster
1978 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Portrait poster, about the effects of old age on women. The poster is mainly taken up with a black and white portrait photograph of an elderly lady, on a green background, enclosed in a red border. Underneath this, in red lettering on a white background is a poem by Sonia Saxon.

Object details

Categories
Object type
TitleOld age isn't calm (generic title)
Materials and techniques
Photostencil, paper, plastic laminate
Brief description
Poster entitled 'Old age isn't calm' made by See Red Women's Workshop, London, around 1978.
Physical description
Portrait poster, about the effects of old age on women. The poster is mainly taken up with a black and white portrait photograph of an elderly lady, on a green background, enclosed in a red border. Underneath this, in red lettering on a white background is a poem by Sonia Saxon.
Dimensions
  • Height: 78cm
  • Width: 58.8cm
Dimensions include plastic laminate.
Marks and inscriptions
  • Old age isn't calm / Fires burn in bodies of old women / Flutes sing in their ears and they / fall in love now and then / Old women dream of dancing in / moonlight and of being held / Old women want you to hug them / and to feel your warmth / I will not speak to you in / platitudes - words of wisdom / 'be like me" / I do not have a rocking chair - I / have no pattern for younger / women / I don't have a richer outlook on / life (life is always confusing) / Except there is a joy in struggle / And in leaping from change to / change / But let the struggle be your own - / and let the changes be your own / Resist compromise - don't take / anything lying down. (Poem by Sonia Saxon)
  • Poem by Sonia Saxon. Printed by See Red 01 703 0070 (Printed vertically, as the side of the portrait of the elderly lady. )
Credit line
Given by the Greenwich Mural Workshop
Object history
Poster featured in an exhibition by the Greenwich Mural Workshop, entitled 'Printing is easy...?'
Subject depicted
Associations
Bibliographic reference
From the Greenwich Mural Workshop's 1986 exhibition 'Printing is Easy...?
Collection
Accession number
E.551-2013

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Record createdNovember 20, 2013
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