printmaker and socialist, was one of the 10 artists in the Melbourne Popular Art Group who produced a folio of 14 linocuts, Eureka 1854-1954 (Melbourne 1954), paying tribute to 'the stand of the Ballarat miners in the Eureka Stockade’ (copy TMAG). Ernie McFarlane was responsible for no.9, The Blacksmith, which complements another blacksmith image (no.8) by Len Gale. Both are single figures. Other works in the folio include no.11 The Sentry, an image of a miner guarding the flag at night, by Maurice Carter and no.s 2 (“Joe! Joe! The Traps are coming”, with the mine-shaft like a crucifix), 4 (The Magistrate) and 5 (On Bakery Hill) by Noel Counihan. Peter Miller also did three: nos 6 (“Burn the Licences!”, a group of men), 10 (The Sly Grog Seller) and The Pikeman. Ailsa O’Connor made no.7, Building the Stockade (and erecting the flag), while Pat O’Connor did no.3, The Licence Hunt. No.13, Trampling the Flag, is by Naomi Schipp; no.1 is a silk-screen portrait of Peter Lalor by Ray Wenban; while the last in the set, no.14 After the Battle (a mother mourning over her son’s dead body) is by Mary Zuvella.
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- Writers:
- Kerr, Joan
- Date written:
- 1996
- Last updated:
- 2007
