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Unemployment's OK!

Poster
1985 (published)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Laminated poster depicting a group onstage with a man at the microphone and a woman playing guitar. A large slogan in red and yellow reads 'Unemployment's OK!' and at the bottom in yellow and green, it reads in smaller letters, 'it's the money that's a problem!'. There are three other photographs of young people down the left side of the poster with quotes on the same topic.

Object details

Categories
Object type
TitleUnemployment's OK! (assigned by artist)
Materials and techniques
Offset lithograph from positives produced by the workshop
Brief description
Laminated poster by the Dead Honest Soul Searchers entitled 'Unemployment's OK!'. London, 1985.
Physical description
Laminated poster depicting a group onstage with a man at the microphone and a woman playing guitar. A large slogan in red and yellow reads 'Unemployment's OK!' and at the bottom in yellow and green, it reads in smaller letters, 'it's the money that's a problem!'. There are three other photographs of young people down the left side of the poster with quotes on the same topic.
Dimensions
  • Height: 63cm
  • Width: 90cm
Credit line
Given by Greenwich Mural Workshop
Subjects depicted
Other number
49 - series number
Collection
Accession number
E.105-2015

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Record createdApril 23, 2015
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