[Jura] Anarchy in the Gallery - update

[specialannounce at jura.org.au]

Hi everyone,

The fabulous Let the walls speak! political poster exhibition opens  
this Wednesday! Please note these updated times:

Opening night: Wednesday 5th September, 6pm. With food, drinks and  
talks by original Tin Sheds artists Marie McMahon and Jan Fieldsend.  
At the University of Sydney, Holme Building.
Then open weekdays from 10am to 7pm and weekends from 10am to 4pm.  
But closed on the 7th, 8th and 9th APEC weekend. The last day is the  
19th September.

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Picture this: a government smashing student unions, big business  
crushing workers, police beating up anti-war protesters. But at the  
same time people are fighting back: women marching against violence,  
students shutting down uranium mines and Aborigines re-claiming their  
land. This isn’t just 2007, it’s 1997, 1987, and 1977. And at key  
moments, art has played a crucial role in the struggle - illustrating  
and inspiring the power of social movements.

Jura Books and the University of Sydney Union are proud to co-present  
this special exhibition of some of the best of political posters to  
come out of the last thirty years of social struggle in Australia.  
And we're timing the exhibition to coincide with APEC - to bring art  
to the protest, and protest to the art gallery!

These posters were re-discovered a few years ago gathering dust in  
the Jura library. This will be the first time they have been  
exhibited outside of Jura. For thirty years, Jura Books has been a  
base and an expression of many campaigns and movements, and has been  
collecting political posters. There are now over 3,000 in the  
collection, from a diverse range of struggles ranging from early  
Aboriginal Land Rights struggles, the feminist movement, the Green  
Bans, anti-uranium mining, anti-Fraser and many more. We’ll be  
showing a careful selection of about 100 posters.

Some of the most stunning posters are from the artist collectives  
which operated in the 1980s out of the (then squatted) Sydney Uni Tin  
Sheds. Powerful, eloquent and moving, these full colour posters use  
silk screening craft and artistic techniques unique to Australia and  
which have rarely been used since.

The collection contains many Earthworks pieces - the seminal group of  
activist political artists in Sydney. There are also posters from  
other artist run collectives that grew out of the Earthworks  
experiment - Lucifoil, Without Authority Posters, Redback Graphix,  
Toby Zoates and many others.

At the same time as APEC politicians discuss prolonging the war,  
profiting from environmental devastation and silencing dissent, come  
and feast your eyes on the alternative: art which demands action and  
envisages a better world. Let the walls speak!

When?
 From the 5th September to the 19th. The opening night is on  
Wednesday 5th September from 6pm, with talks by some of the original  
artists, food and drinks. After that it will be open 10am till 7pm  
weekdays, and 10am to 4pm weekends, except closed on the 7th, 8th and  
9th.
Where?
Sydney University Holme Building, the Bevery (on the Parramatta Rd  
side of the campus)
How much?
Entry is by donation. All proceeds go to preserving the posters,  
which may not survive for another thirty years otherwise.

Jura Books
440 Parramatta Rd
Petersham
9550 9931
www.jura.org.au

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