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Poster

1987 (made)
Artist/Maker
Union Place Community Resource Centre (print-makers)
Place of origin
London (made)

Laminated, portrait oriented, poster predominantly red and yellow with a black and red border. In the centre is a black and white photographic image on a red background depicting three African children, two have prosthetic legs. Along the top is a flag with a broken pole emblazoned with the words 'WE ARE OUR OWN LIBERATORS'. In the top right and bottom right corners are hand prints filled in black.

Object details

Categories
Posters
Printmaking Techniques
Africa
Disability
Object type
Poster
Materials and techniques
Three-colour slikscreen print on paper that has been laminated in plastic
Paper
Plastic Laminate
Silkscreen
Brief description
Poster to raise money for the BALSA (Black Action for the Liberation of Southern Africa) Mozambique Campaign, depicting a group of Southern African children two with prosthetic legs, made at Union Place Community Resource Centre. London, 1987.
Physical description
Laminated, portrait oriented, poster predominantly red and yellow with a black and red border. In the centre is a black and white photographic image on a red background depicting three African children, two have prosthetic legs. Along the top is a flag with a broken pole emblazoned with the words 'WE ARE OUR OWN LIBERATORS'. In the top right and bottom right corners are hand prints filled in black.
Dimensions
  • Height: 69.2cm
  • Width: 47.6cm
Dimensions taken from plastic laminate.
Marks and inscriptions
'WE ARE OUR OWN LIBERATORS' 'BLACK ACTION FOR THE / LIBERATION OF SOUTHERN AFRICA' 'BALSA MOZAMBIQUE CAMPAIGN' FOCUS ON, HEALTH AND EDUCATION' 'BALSA / PO BOX 267, / LONDON / SE23 1LF' 'PRODUCED BY BALSA PUBLICITY GROUP'
Credit line
Given by Greenwich Mural Workshop
Subjects depicted
Children
Places depicted
Mozambique
Bibliographic references
  • From an exhibition by Greenwich Mural Workshop, 'Printing is Easy...? Community Printshops 1970-1986'
  • The following excerpt is by Hilary Sapire in the 'Journal of Southern African Studies Vol. 35, No. 2, Liberation Struggles, Exile and International Solidarity (Jun., 2009), pp. 271-286: 'Newspapers such as the West Indian World and Caribbean Times and the popular 'Black Londoners' daily radio programme encouraged participation in boycotts and support for the 'Free Mandela' campaign, while organisations such as the Black Parent Movement which was established in the mid-1970s, and events such as the annual African Liberation Day ( ALD) reflected popular concern with the anti-apartheid struggle and support for the liberation movements. While these represented initiatives which co-operated to some extent with the Anti-Apartheid Movement, more radical and separatist groups such as the All-African People's Revolutionary Party (A-ARP) and Black Action for the Liberation of South Africa (BALSA) - which arose from disaffected black activists in the Labour Party - sought to express their solidarity with Southern Africans through a more exclusive Pan-Africanist idiom.'
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
E.514-2013

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Record createdNovember 20, 2013
Record URL
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