AUSTRALIAN TIMBER WORKERS UNION SA BRANCH

(Now part of the Construction, Forestry, Maritime, Mining and Energy Union)

Artist: Andrew Hill

Funded by: All Our Working Lives, UTLC Banner Project and ATWU

Produced: 1984-87

The union executive was most anxious to revive knowledge of its achievements and to consolidate its past and present identity. One of the first steps had been to have a reproduction made of their original 1913 banner which was an exciting thought in the ‘70s. So the idea of a completely new contemporary banner was an exciting thought and there was enormous enthusiasm around its production.

Stylistically it was agreed that the banner should pick up elements from the established banner making tradition – satin edging, scrollwork, vignetting and images of the different work activities the union covers.  Andrew Hill

Cited in: Modern Trade Union Banners: An exhibition of recently completed SA union banners, Kathie Muir, Union Arts, United Trades & Labor Council of South Australia, August 1987.

Loaned by the Construction, Forestry, Maritime, Mining and Energy Union South Australia, Manufacturing Division. Held in the Mount Gambier Office.

Reverse of banner