Redback Graphix 1979 - 2002

Michael Callaghen, If the unemployed....., Redback Graphix, 1979.

Redback Graphix - a chronological listing of works

Formed by printmaker Michael Gallaghan in 1979, Redback Graphix quickly developed a reputation as one of the most vibrant and active of the print collectives operating in Australia during the 1980s and beyond. A catalogue of works has been published, and the National Gallery of Australia's online database of prints and posters includes a comprehensive listing of the majority of works. The following list builds on those resources and adds to them, hopefully working towards a definitive - though brief - listing of the output of Redback Graphix between 1979 and 2002. It aims to serve as a quick reference guide, with researchers referred to both Zagala and the NGA website for more detailed information. All items listed below are posters, unless otherwise indicated. The first few posters were produced at Griffith University in Brisbane during 1979, before Callaghan moved back home to Wollongong where the majority of works were printed out of facilities in Stewart Park. Redback later moved to a former factory in Sydney. A large number of artists worked at Redback over the years, though Michael Callaghan was the founder and primary print maker through to its closing in 2002. Previous to Redback he had worked during the 1970s with the Earthworks Poster Collective at the Tin Sheds, University of Sydney.

Michael Callaghan and Gregor Cullen, Redback Graphix, Wollongong, circa 1984. Source: Illawarra Mercury.

Key to list

Year - date of production and / or event, whichever is know or earliest
Title / description - brief title and descriptive information
Zagala - published catalogue of works
UOWAC - University of Wollongong Art Collection
NGA - National Gallery of Australia
WCG - Wollongong City Gallery
LIB - University of Wollongong Library


Item Year Title / description Zagala UOWAC NGA WCG LIB
1979 If the Unemployed are Dole Bludgers, what the fuck are the idle rich?, colour screenprint on paper 1 UOWAC NGA WCG
1979 What Now Mr Mao Dance?, colour screenprint on paper 2
NGA WCG

1979 Greetings From Wollongong Postcards (1),  colour screenprint on paper 3 UOWAC NGA WCG
1979 Onward Christian Soliders, colour screenprint on paper 4 UOWAC NGA WCG
1979 Prostitution is the rental of the body, colour screenprint on paper (Tin Sheds) 5
NGA

1980 Salt of the Earth, colour screenprint on paper 6
NGA WCG LIB

1980 Nice Poster, colour screenprint on paper 7 UOWAC NGA WCG
1980 With Babes & Banners, colour screenprint on paper 8
NGA WCG LIB
 9 1980 South-East Region Pollution Control Committee, colour screenprint on paper (Tin Sheds) 9
NGA


1980 Earth Week : Art Competition, colour screenprint on paper (Tin Sheds) 10
NGA

1980 A migration film festival, colour screenprint on paper 11 UOWAC NGA WCG

1980 Art & Working Life, colour screenprint on paper 12
NGA WCG

1980 Art Workers Union Benefit, Graphic Arts Club, screenprint (Tin Sheds) -
NGA

1980 At home in the postwar dream, colour screenprint on paper -
NGA

1981 Kick our Fraser! Rally, colour screenprint on paper 13
NGA

 16 1981 Art & Working Life Conference, colour screenprint on paper 14
NGA

1981 A Pena in support for Elsalvador, colour screenprint on paper 15 UOWAC NGA WCG

1981 Rosie the Riveter - support jobs for women at the Steelworks, colour screenprint on paper 16
NGA


1981 Steel City Pictures Benefit Dance (Tin Sheds) -
NGA
LIB


1982 Australia Vietnam Calender (83), colour screenprint on paper 17 UOWAC NGA WCG
  1982 Liberation /Reconstruction, colour screenprint on paper 17
NGA WCG
  1982 US Occupation/Fall of French Colonialism, colour screenprint on paper 17
NGA WCG
 23		 1982 Nyuntu anangu maruku ngurangka ngaranyi - You are on Aboriginal Land, colour screenprint on paper 18 UOWAC NGA

 24 1982 Nyuntu anangu maruku ngurangka ngaranyi - You are on Aboriginal Land, colour screenprint on paper 18 UOWAC NGA


1982 Pay the Rent, colour screenprint on paper 18
NGA WCG

1982 You are on Aboriginal Land (without Pay the Rent text), offset lithograph 18 UOWAC NGA

 27 1982 Pay the Rent, colour screenprint on paper 19
NGA


1982 Marxist Summer School, colour screenprint on paper 20
NGA WCG

1982 Aboriginal Radio in Aboriginal Country, colour screenprint on paper 21
NGA WCG

1982 Renaissance Players, colour screenprint on paper 22
NGA WCG
 31 1982 Renaissance Players, colour screenprint on paper 22
NGA WCG
1982 Vocations, colour screenprint on paper 23 UOWAC NGA WCG LIB

1982 Daily Oppression, colour screenprint on paper 24
NGA WCG
 34 1982 5th Festival Del Sol - Latin American Dance Festival, colour screenprint on paper 25
NGA WCG
 35 1982 Greetings From Wollongong Postcards (2),  colour screenprint on paper 26 UOWAC NGA

 36 1982 Greetings from Wollongong , colour screenprint on paper 27 UOWAC NGA WCG LIB
 37 1982 Man into Woman, colour screenprint on paper 28 UOWAC NGA

 38 1982 Connor Conference, colour screenprint on paper 29 UOWAC NGA WCG LIB
 39 1982 SLUDGE, colour screenprint on paper 30 UOWAC NGA WCG
 40 1982 Wollongong Festival , colour screenprint on paper 31
NGA WCG
 41 1982 Women and Arts Festival, colour screenprint on paper 32
NGA WCG
 42 1982 Right to Work March, colour screenprint on paper 33
NGA WCG
 43 1982 Patterns of Infinity, colour screenprint on paper 34
NGA

 44 1982 Reject the System, colour screenprint on paper 35
NGA WCG
 45 1982 End the state of oppression, colour screenprint on paper 36
NGA

 46 1982 Art & Working Life in Australia - Cassidy report, booklet cover -



 47 1982 Demand Action - Create Jobs Not Unemployment, banner on cloth -



 48 1982 How do you get ahead on the dole?, colour screenprint on paper -

WCG
 49 1982 Saga - A Protest in Linocuts, screenprint on paper -



 50 1982 Saga - A Protest in Linocuts, t-shirt print -



 51 1982 South Coast Miners Federation, banner on cloth -



 52 1983 Australia Vietnam Calender (82), colour screenprint on paper 37 UOWAC NGA WCG
 53 1983 Looks and Smiles, colour screenprint on paper 38 UOWAC NGA

 54 1983 Looks and Smiles (2), colour screenprint on paper 39
NGA WCG
 55 1983 BHP - Strike Back!, screenprint on paper 40
NGA

 56 1983 Big Australian Destroys Jobs, colour screenprint on paper 41
NGA WCG
 57 1983 Over the Top, colour screenprint on paper 42 UOWAC NGA WCG
 58 1983 A Different Perspective, colour screenprint on paper 43 UOWAC NGA WCG
 59 1983 Flamenco Guitar, colour screenprint on paper 44
NGA WCG
 60 1983 Keep state schools great schools, colour screenprint on paper 45
NGA

 61 1983 Fishers Ghost Festival 83, colour screenprint on paper 46 UOWAC NGA WCG
 62 1983 Housing Information Service, colour screenprint on paper 47 UOWAC NGA WCG
63 1983 The Seymour Group , colour screenprint on paper 48
NGA WCG
64 1983 Wollongong Antique Fair, colour screenprint on paper x 3 49 UOWAC NGA WCG
65 1983 Migrant Resource Centre Party colour screenprint on paper 50 UOWAC NGA WCG
66 1983 Music from Other Cultures, colour screenprint on paper 51 UOWAC NGA WCG
67 1983 Tenosynovitis and overuse injuries, colour screenprint on paper 52
NGA

68 1983 Industrial noise, colour screenprint on paper 53
NGA

69 1983 Disappeared = Dead?, colour screenprint on paper 54
NGA WCG
70 1983 Regional High Schools Art Exhibition, colour screenprint on paper 55 UOWAC NGA WCG
71 1983 New Rythmworks, colour screenprint on paper 56
NGA WCG
72 1983 Animal Imagery In Contemporary Art, colour screenprint on paper x 2 57
NGA WCG
73 1983 Fresh blood, colour screenprint on paper 58
NGA WCG LIB
74 1983 Australia Vietnam Society Calendar 1984 59 UOWAC NGA

75 1983 Small Change,  colour screenprint on paper 60
NGA WCG
76 1984 Debt problems?, colour screenprint on paper 61
NGA

77 1984 IIllawarra Community Broadcasters Presents Heritage Week Radio, colour screenprint on paper 62 UOWAC NGA WCG
78 1984 Conservation and Contemporary Art. What's wrong with this picture?, colour screenprint on paper 63 UOWAC NGA WCG
79 1984 K.C.C. Women's Auxiliary and Jobs for Women  colour screenprint on paper 64 UOWAC NGA WCG
80 1984 Raise the dole dance, colour screenprint on paper 65 UOWAC NGA WCG
81 1984 Regional Migrant Health Centre No. 1,  colour screenprint on paper 66 UOWAC NGA WCG
82 1984 Regional Migrant Health Centre No 2, colour screenprint on paper 67 UOWAC NGA WCG
83 1984 Regional Migrant Health Centre No 3, colour screenprint on paper 68
NGA

84 1984 We help house you, colour screenprint on paper 69 UOWAC NGA

85 1984 Wollongong Crisis Centre, colour screenprint on paper 70 UOWAC NGA

86 1984 When they close a pit they kill a community, colour screenprint on paper 71 UOWAC NGA WCG
87 1984 Tommy colour screenprint on paper 72 UOWAC NGA WCG
88 1984 Kemira Diary of a Strike, colour screenprint on paper 73 UOWAC NGA WCG LIB
89 1984 House About Wollongong, colour screenprint on paper 74
NGA WCG
90 1984 House About Wollongong, colour screenprint on paper 74
NGA WCG
91 1984 3rd Aboriginal Languages Conference, colour screenprint on paper 75
NGA

92 1984 Remote Area Media , colour screenprint on paper 76
NGA WCG
93 1984 Who Owns the Australian Cinema?, colour screenprint on paper 77
NGA WCG
94 1984 The Arrangers present 2nd Annual Parramatta Antique Fair 78
NGA

95 1984 Legal/Illegal, colour screenprint on paper 79 UOWAC NGA WCG
96 1984 Organizar, colour screenprint on paper 80 UOWAC NGA WCG
97 1984 Nicaragua, colour screenprint on paper 81 UOWAC NGA WCG
98 1984 Torture colour screenprint on paper 82 UOWAC NGA WCG
99 1984 Tokyo Hit Beat, colour screenprint on paper 83 UOWAC NGA WCG
100 1984 C.A.A.M.A. Cassettes, colour screenprint on paper 84
NGA WCG
101 1984 Imparja, colour screenprint on paper 85 UOWAC NGA WCG
102 1984 Shelter or the Streets,  colour screenprint on paper 86 UOWAC NGA WCG
103 1984 First National Aboriginal Art Award, colour screenprint on paper 87 UOWAC NGA WCG
104 1984 Steel Houses in a Steel City, colour screenprint on paper 88 UOWAC NGA WCG
105 1984 Wollongong 150, colour screenprint on paper 89 UOWAC NGA WCG
106 1984 Jazz, colour screenprint on paper 90 UOWAC NGA WCG
107 1984 Combined Regional High Schools Art Exhibition, colour screenprint on paper 91
NGA WCG
108 1984 Go Blotto!, colour screenprint on paper 92 UOWAC NGA WCG
109 1984 Visual Arts Board Desiderius Orban Youth Art Awards, colour screenprint on paper 93 UOWAC NGA WCG
110 1984 Arrente Christmas Carols, cassette cover -
NGA

111 1984 Bob Randall, cassette cover -
NGA

112 1984 Buy CAAMA Cassettes, card -
NGA

113 1984 Wedgetail Eagle Band, cassette cover -
NGA

114 1985 Heartland , colour screenprint on paper 94
NGA WCG
115 1985 International Women's Day   , colour screenprint on paper 95 UOWAC NGA WCG
116 1985 Wollongong Out of Workers' Dance, colour screenprint on paper x 2 96 UOWAC NGA WCG
117 1985 Barunga Sport & Cultural Festival 1985, colour screenprint on paper 97 UOWAC NGA WCG
118 1985 Mega Ball, colour screenprint on paper 98 UOWAC NGA WCG
119 1985 Housing Problems, colour screenprint on paper 99
NGA WCG
120 1985 Wollongong Family Conciliation Centre, colour screenprint on paper 100 UOWAC NGA
121 1985 The circus of tomorrow, colour screenprint on paper 101 UOWAC NGA
122 1985 Need somewhere to stay?, colour screenprint on paper 102 NGA
123 1985 Volunteer Youth Program, colour screenprint on paper 103 NGA WCG
1985 Art and Working Life Festival (Tin Sheds), colour screenprint on paper 104 NGA
125 1985 Rocking the Foundations, colour screenprint on paper 105 UOWAC NGA
126 1985 Facts about Aids, colour screenprint on paper 106 UOWAC NGA
127 1985 The Workplace is no place for Racism, colour screenprint on paper 107 UOWAC NGA WCG
128 1985 Radio Red All Over, colour screenprint on paper 108 NGA WCG
129 1985 Don't let DSS spoil your day, colour screenprint on paper 109 UOWAC NGA
130 1985 Bush Radio, colour screenprint on paper 110 NGA
131 1985 8-Kin Network, colour screenprint on paper 111
NGA
132 1985 Hatstand, wrapping paper - NGA
133 1985 8-Kin Network, card -
134 1985 Arts Law Centre of Australia, leaflet - NGA
135 1985 Bush Radio, card -
136 1985 Bush Radio, t-shirt print -
137 1985 Don’t go mental over rental, t-shirt print - NGA
138 1985 Federal Radio Training, ABC Radio, book cover - NGA
139 1985 Herbie Laughton, cassette cover - NGA
140 1985 Impaja, t-shirt print - NGA
141 1985 Lord of the Bush (film), leaflet - NGA
142 1985 Mexican Holiday - NGA
143 1985 Mexican Holiday, t-shirt print - NGA
144 1985 Rebel Voices from Black Australia, music cassette cover - NGA
145 1985 Seasonal Greetings, card - NGA
146 1985 Warumpi Band, cassette cover - NGA
147 1985 Wharfies - A History of the Waterside Workers Federation of Australia, book cover - NGA
148 1986 Broard Left Conference, colour screenprint on paper 112 UOWAC NGA
149 1986 Barunga Sport & Cultural Festival 1986, colour screenprint on paper 113 UOWAC NGA
150 1986 Crack the code, colour screenprint on paper 114 UOWAC NGA
151 1986 Work-related childcare, colour screenprint on paper 115 NGA
152 1986 Permanency, colour screenprint on paper 116 UOWAC NGA
153 1986 Part time work screenprint 117 UOWAC NGA
154 1986 Demand a better housing deal 118 UOWAC NGA
155 1986 Backlash 119 NGA
156 1986 Australian Movies well worth watching, offset 120 UOWAC NGA
157 1986 Colledge Academics 121 UOWAC NGA
158 1986 Tenants Demand a fair go! Screenprint 122 UOWAC NGA
159 1986 Home Care service NSW, offset 123
NGA
160 1986 The secret value of daydreaming 124 NGA
161 1986 My life without Steve 125 NGA
162 1986 Amnesty South Africa, screenprint 126 UOWAC NGA
163 1986 The Aboriginal Arts Board, screenprint 130 UOWAC NGA
164 1986 Beat the Grog (1) 131 UOWAC NGA
165 1986 May Day 132 UOWAC NGA
166 1986 Marine Life wrapping paper - UOWAC NGA
167 1986 Banksia, wrapping paper -
168 1986 National Aborigines Day, Celebration Week - NGA
169 1986 Pumpuni, wrapping paper - NGA
170 1986 Barunga Sport & Cultural Festival, t-shirt print - NGA
171 1986 Bathurst Island, wrapping paper - NGA
172 1986 Beat the Grog, blue sticker - NGA
173 1986 Beat the Grog, yellow sticker - NGA
174 1986 Film Australia's Australia - Arts in Society, video cover - NGA
175 1986 Film Australia's Australia - Political Power, video cover - NGA
176 1986 Film Australia's Australia - Work, book cover - NGA
177 1986 Hibiscus Films Ltd, card - NGA
178 1986 Impaja, wrapping paper - NGA
179 1986 Need somewhere to put this?, t-shirt print - NGA
180 1986 Oenpelli, wrapping paper - NGA
181 1986 Papal Concert Alice Springs, cassette cover - NGA
182 1986 Rocking the Foundations, t-shirt print -
183 1986 The Drug Offensive, sticker - NGA
184 1986 TOPS - Training of Polling Staff, folder printing - NGA
185 1987 Amnesty Chile Demands Justice, screenprint 127 UOWAC NGA WCG
186 1987 25 Years Amnesty International, screenprint 128 UOWAC NGA
187 1987 8 hour day 133
NGA
188 1987 Te Ao Marama 134 UOWAC NGA
189 1987 Redback Graphix posters 1979 - 1985 135 UOWAC NGA
190 1987 Kauwhata Maori Culture Party, colour screenprint on paper 136 UOWAC NGA WCG
191 1987 State of Shock 137 UOWAC NGA
192 1987 Coaltown 138 UOWAC NGA
193 1987 Time's Up 139 NGA
194 1987 Ramingining Prints screenprint 140 UOWAC NGA
195 1987 Condoman 141 UOWAC NGA
196 1987 Condoman 142 NGA
197 1987 Condoman 143 NGA
198 1987 Eat Good food 144 UOWAC NGA
199 1987 Empty Kids fill up on petrol 145 UOWAC NGA
200 1987 Don't Drive on 146 UOWAC NGA
201 1987 Caring and sharing without grog 147 UOWAC NGA
202 1987 Drink Little Bit 148 UOWAC NGA
203 1987 Vote in the federal election July 1987 149 NGA
204 1987 Vote (McMahon) screenprint 150 UOWAC NGA
205 1987 Caring and sharing without grog, t-shirt print - NGA
206 1987 Grog Kills Skills, t-shirt print - NGA
207 1987 Isaac Yama  and the Pitjantjatjara Country Band No.2, cassette cover - NGA
208 1987 Isaac Yama  and the Pitjantjatjara Country Band No.2, cassette cover - NGA
209 1987 Light On - Arenyonga Desser Tigers, cassette cover - NGA
210 1987 Overseas study awards for Aboriginal people, leaflet - NGA
211 1987 Phillipines - for peace with justice, t-shirt print - NGA
212 1988 Amnesty, Death Penalty USA 129 UOWAC NGA
213 1988 ACOA 75th Anniversary - Changing Membership, Changing Workplace, screenprint 151
NGA
214 1988 ACOA 75th Anniversary  - Campaigning in the public interest, screenprint 152
NGA
215 1988 Women and Work 153
NGA
216 1988 Vote in the referendum (stephen Lees), screenprint 154 UOWAC NGA
217 1988 Enrol to vote - hands 155 UOWAC NGA
218 1988 Enrol to vote - Torres Strait 156 UOWAC NGA
219 1988 Film Australia's Australia 157 NGA
220 1988 Contradictions 158 UOWAC NGA
221 1988 How do you spell Gorbatrof? 159 UOWAC NGA
222 1988 Don't be too polite 160 UOWAC NGA
223 1988 FPA education information 161 NGA
224 1988 Yarn Spinners, screenprint 162 UOWAC NGA
225 1988 I've survived Domestic Violence 163 UOWAC NGA
226 1988 Stop Domestic Violence 164 NGA
227 1988 Out of Control - Domestic Violence, offset 165
NGA
228 1988 Undoing history - making a just future, screenprint 166 UOWAC NGA
229 1988 Stop the killing times 167 UOWAC NGA
230 1988 Karnta 168 UOWAC NGA
231 1988 Aboriginal Television Australia 169 NGA
232 1988 Big Grog Story, screenprint 170
NGA
233 1988 Kava Story 171 UOWAC NGA
234 1988 No condom - no way! 172 NGA
235 1988 You don't have to be a queenie to get AIDS 173 NGA
236 1988 Pregnancy 174 UOWAC NGA
237 1988 Just one more 175 UOWAC NGA
238 1988 Grog Kills Skills (football) 176 UOWAC NGA
239 1988 Greg Kills Skills (basketball) 177 NGA
240 1988 AGOG, limited edition, screenprint 178 UOWAC NGA
241 1988 aGog, screenprint 178 UOWAC NGA
242 1988 BOTANICAL wrapping paper #1 - #9 - UOWAC
243 1988 You are invited to Xmas drinks at Redback Graphix, card - NGA
244 1989 Now we are 10 - Tin Sheds Gallery 179 UOWAC NGA
245 1989 Vote (Rural), screenprint 180 UOWAC NGA
246 1989 Vote (Urban), screenprint 181 UOWAC NGA
247 1989 UPK - An Average Anangu Day, screenprint 182 UOWAC NGA
248 1989 Waliku tjukurpa, screenprint 183 UOWAC NGA
249 1989 Greek Tragedy, screenprint 184
NGA
250 1989 Jargon Busters 185 NGA
251 1989 Nobody's Children 186 NGA
252 1989 Women in engineering 187 NGA
253 1989 Getting a fair deal for pensioners 188 UOWAC NGA
254 1989 Ros Bower Memorial Trust 189 NGA
255 1989 Tender Hooks, offset - lithograph 190 UOWAC NGA
256 1989 Discrimination - you can do something about it! 191 NGA
257 1989 Defence Services Homes 192 NGA
258 1989 Get Housed, board game - box top - UOWAC NGA
259 1989 Nilimurru djaka dhiyaku, t-shirt print - NGA
260 1989 We belong to the land… (feral pigs) screenprint - UOWAC
261 1990 Use your brain! Screenprint (BILLBOARD) 193 NGA
262 1990 Use your brain! Screenprint 194 UOWAC NGA
263 1990 You don’t have to put up with racism 195 NGA
264 1990 Sex & drugs & HIV 196 NGA
265 1990 We still have rights 197 UOWAC NGA
266 1990 Retrenched? Offset 198
NGA
267 1990 Australia Council Annual Report 1988-1989, book cover -
NGA
268 1990 FPA Lovers Love, t-shirt print - NGA
269 1990 Taking Care of the Future, booklet cover - NGA
270 1991 Be sure - have a pap test 199 NGA
271 1991 Be sure - have a pap test 200 NGA
1992 World Environment Day 201 UOWAC NGA
273 1993 Literacy 202 NGA
274 1993 Vote - My voice for my country, screenprint 203 UOWAC NGA
275 1993 Vote in the federal election 204 NGA
276 1993 Enrol to vote (shark) 205 NGA
277 1993 Change - not charity, tea towel - NGA
278 1995 Karnta - Aboriginal Women's Art, brochure - NGA
279 1995 Members Only - offset lithograph - UOWAC
280 1995 Think of it as insurance, offset print - UOWAC
281 1996 Census 96 - Aboriginal Remote Area - UOWAC
282 1996 Cenus 96 torres Straight Islands - UOWAC
283 1998 Circus OZ - skeletons, t-shirt print - UOWAC
284 1998 Congratulations - UOWAC
285 1998 Don't just sit there - UOWAC
286 1998 Explore the PSA - UOWAC
287 1999 Happy 100th Birthday PSA - UOWAC
288 2002 Cheaper than a vegemite sandwich - UOWAC
2002 Who is the best PSA recruiter?, offset lithograph - UOWAC








Michael Organ
8 February 2017

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