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Don't Forget to Remember by Amelia Barikin, Courtney Coombs, Callum McGrath, Spiros Panigirakis, and Tim Riley Walsh, published 02.05.2024

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Susi Blackwell

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Born in Goondiwindi, Queensland, Australia.
Susi Blackwell, Dam dykes, 1994, screenprint printed in colour inks from five stencils, 54 x83cm, National Gallery of Australia
Image courtesy of the artist.

Bio

Susi Blackwell (b. 1969) is an Australian artist and printmaker. She was an early member of the activist print making collective Inkahoots in Brisbane in the 1980s. In 1994 she collaborated with Angela Bailey on the production of the HIV/AIDS political poster 'Dam Dykes', as part of an Inkahoots exhibition project. Elizabeth Ashburn writes, "the poster was to be have launched at the Brisbane City Hall Gallery in 1994. However, the council decided that the poster was 'offensive' and refused to hang it. It was explained to the artists by a council representative that hanging the poster would do 'more harm than good and would needlessly offend public taste" (Elizabeth Ashburn, Lesbian Art, 1996, p. 38-9).

Blackwell also modelled for the 1991 poster 'Celebrating Change' by Inkahoots member Robyn McDonald, which featured a gay couple and a lesbian couple kissing and embracing (a work now in the collection of the Queensland Art Gallery / Gallery of Modern Art).

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Meanjin (Brisbane), Queensland, Australia

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Website
Further reading: "Dam Dykes"

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