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ALL AUSTRALIAN GRAFFITI was the name of their collective. Graffiti was a play on Graphics...
In the wake of Australia Day and much head-shaking over bad southern cross tattoos and flags-as-capes get up I wanna pay tribute to All Australian Graffiti.
When I was a kid one of my favourite books was a tear out postcard collection called "The Kevin Pappas Tear Out Postcard Book". All I ever wanted to do was to rip those cards out and stick them on my wall. But it was my Dad's book cheap bvlgari assioma replica watches
so of course I didn't dare. But it made the book even more lovable to me.
"The Kevin Pappas Tear Out Postcard Book" was a product of the seventies art and design team All Australian Graffiti.
Sharpies meat pies and lots of kangaroos in lots of incarnations.
Helen Garner described the book on it's release in 1977:
"Theres the FX Holden rusting away on a golden sand-dune (Bashes to bashes rust to rust rot in peace); two monstrously overgrown kangaroo tearing Sydney apart; a nativity scene in a caravan park with the baby cradled in an Esky; a portrait of Ned Kelly; the Queen; a kangaroo delivering a human baby in its pouch; a can of 200 live blowies preserved in eau de poo; a corner milk bar; a football rampant on a field; a glowing Peters ice-cream sign against a darkening sky; and other icons of the Australian way of life."
Those sorts of things are part of our culture as far as I'm concerned said Con Aslanis. I like them; I grew up with them so I had to like them ... We like those human things those affectionate things. What we do is already antique. Our identity is fast disappearing. The Eureka flag deserved a postcard. So does Melba even if she didn't carry a rifle at Gallipoli. The meat pie in Australia is as important in terms of national identity as the Concorde is to Europe. We haven't got the Parthenon but we've got the brick veneer house. It's a monument.
All Australian Graffiti were Kevin Pappas Con Aslanis Geoff Cook Izi Marmur Tony Ward titoni replica watch
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Meg Williams and Mimmo Cozzolino and their legacy of a tender funny riotous version of Australian-ness is bookmarked on Mimmo's website now.
Enjoy my highlights from All Australian Graffiti (in the picture gallery above) and feel my nostalgia!
ALL AUSTRALIAN GRAFFITI was the name of their collective. Graffiti was a play on Graphics...