ACTORS EQUITY:  ACTORS EQUITY ASSOCIATION OF AUSTRALIA SA DIVISION (Now part of the Media, Entertainment and Arts Alliance)

ACTORS EQUITY:  ACTORS EQUITY ASSOCIATION OF AUSTRALIA SA DIVISION

 

(Now part of the Media, Entertainment and Arts Alliance)

 

Artist: Mark Thomson

Funded by: All Our Working Lives Project

Produced: 1984-87

 

When an opportunity came up I jumped at the chance to paint a banner for Actors Equity because I had been directly involved for several years as a ‘scenic artist’ (a set painter) for a local theatre company and for film and opera productions. I had a good idea of what theatre and performance was about, and I also had access to materials and the skills necessary to make the banner. An example of this is the fact that the cloth is an old SA Film Corporation production prop – a sail from the TV mini series ‘Sara Dane’…

 

I wanted to make a banner that somehow reflected what I perceived about theatre: something about the illusory and real, the show must go on sort of stuff, the tackiness and grime behind the greasepaint… The use of gold paint and fringes is important to this theatre feel. I’ve enjoyed painting this banner.   Mark Thomson

 

Cited in: All Our Working Lives: A project by working people documenting their struggles and achievements, co-ordinated by Andrew Hill, Eugenia Hill, United Trades & Labor Council (SA), Working Women’s Centre, Trade Union Training Authority, Community Media Association, Kitchener Press, 1984, p. 89.

 

Loaned by the Media, Entertainment and Arts Alliance SA Branch


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