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Re/construction: Jack Mundey & the Green Bans
Artists: Fiona MacDonald, Chips Mackinolty, Marion Marrison & Margaret Roberts. Trades Hall Collection, Jack Mundey Archives, curated by Neale Towart & Bill Pirrie.
Dates: 31 October to 21 November 2020
Dates: 31 October to 21 November 2020
Venues: Trades Hall Auditorium and The Cross Art Projects
Events:
Conversation 1: Judy Mundey, Meredith Burgmann, Pat Fiske.
Thursday 5 November at 5. Booking essential (limit of 40), Trades Hall Auditorium.
Tours of Trades Hall and the BLF HQ, TBA booking only.
Presented by: The Cross Art Projects and Sydney Trades Hall Collection
Re/construction brings together artists, two community groups and two curators to reread the legacy of Jack Mundey and the Green Bans. Jack Mundey's whole life was one giant spatial project. But he didn't need art to do what he did, he had the context of the union movement. Discussing Jack Mundey's concept of green bans and public space as a 'spatial project' in an art context, is implying a common link between the union movement and art, which makes us aware of the way both offer room for alternative thinking or challenges to mainstream thinking.
Marian Marrison, Mick Fowler, 1975. Mick joined the movement in April 1973 and was still living in his room at 115 Victoria St in 1975 despite the harassment. Mick Fowler died in 1979.
Peter Manning, “When you are “in” Mick Fowler’s home in Victoria St you are in a room about 14 ft square. It is lined with posters, photographs, poems, blow ups, calendars, letters, newsclips, mirrors and memorabilia of any and every kind. All four walls are a living history of Mick Fowler … “
