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A monkey town

Poster
1985 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Portrait poster advertising an art exhibition by John Kindness, at the Grapevine Arts Centre in Dublin. The top half if the poster shows one of the pieces beign exhibited, and is an illustration of two dog like animal fighting, forming a circle, one red, one yellow. The bottom half of the poster gives information about the date and place of the exhibtion.

Object details

Categories
Object type
TitleA monkey town (generic title)
Materials and techniques
Printing, paper, plastic laminate
Brief description
Poster, designed and printed by John Kindness, and printed by Barbara Buchler with the Art & Research Exchange, Northern Ireland, 1985.
Physical description
Portrait poster advertising an art exhibition by John Kindness, at the Grapevine Arts Centre in Dublin. The top half if the poster shows one of the pieces beign exhibited, and is an illustration of two dog like animal fighting, forming a circle, one red, one yellow. The bottom half of the poster gives information about the date and place of the exhibtion.
Dimensions
  • Height: 81.4cm
  • Width: 47.8cm
Dimensions include plastic laminate.
Marks and inscriptions
A MONKEY TOWN / BESIEGED BY DOGS / AN EXHIBITION BY / JOHN KINDNESS / 3RD - 15TH JUNE 1985 / GRAPEVINE ARTS CENTRE / 31 NORTH FREDERICK ST. / DUBLIN 1 TEL: 728721 / FROM MAY 27TRH - 1ST JUNE 'WORK / IN PROGRESS' WILL BE OPEN TO THE PUBLIC.
Credit line
Given by the Greenwich Mural Workshop.
Object history
Poster featured in the Greenwich Mural Workshop's 1986 exhibition 'Printing is Easy...?'
Subject depicted
Place depicted
Bibliographic reference
From the Greenwich Mural Workshop's 1986 exhibition 'Printing is Easy...?'
Collection
Accession number
E.588-2013

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Record createdNovember 20, 2013
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