Artist Links: Green Bans & Community Activism against re-development, gentrification & sell-offs

Alison Alder - http://www.alisonalder.com/posters_posters_index.html
Vanessa Berry – Mirror Sydney, extensive documentation of 1980s mural movement; see also Berry’s book Mirror Sydney (2020) - https://mirrorsydney.wordpress.com/2015/08/04/a-tour-of-1980s-community-murals/
Claire Lewis – We live here at http://www.welivehere2017.com.au/in-the-news
Keg de Sousa - http://www.kegdesouza.com/
Len Fox, artist, journalist and local  historian. Exhibition: Len. Fox. Comrades Up the Cross, 2004 - https://www.crossart.com.au/exhibition-archive/107-2004-exhibitions-projects/238-comrades-up-the-cross-len-fox-19052004-16-to-30-october-2004
Margaret Grafton, artist and local community group leader. Exhibition: Margaret Grafton. Weaving in Metal, 2006. - https://www.crossart.com.au/exhibition-archive/105-2006-exhibitions-projects/217-margaret-grafton-weaving-in-metal-26-august-to-16-september-2006
Bianca Hester - Website: www.biancahester.net / Down City Streets: https://downcitystreets.com/ George Molnar, cartoonist and architect. Exhibition https://www.crossart.com.au/about 
Chips Mackinolty - www.chipsmackinolty.com & Chips Mackinolty, Social Fabric https://www.crossart.com.au/exhibition-archive/98-2013-exhibitions-projects/195-social-fabric-banners-from-the-northern-territory-2010-2013
Wendy Murray - http://www.wendymurray.com.au/
Raquel Ormella - https://netsvictoria.org.au/exhibition/i-hope-you-get-this-raquel-ormella/

Green Bans Art Walks, 2011. Green Bans Art Walk Exhibition in 2 Parts: The Cross Art Projects and The Firstdraft Depot Project Space, Sydney. Exhibition focus Woolloomooloo & Victoria Street, Kings Cross, linked by art walks with local experts on Victoria Street and Woolloomooloo Green Bans part of Performance Space Art Walks. Exhibitions at https://www.crossart.com.au/exhibition-archive/100-2011-exhibitions-projects/130-green-bans-art-walk 

Opening of Green Bans Exhibition Part 1 at The Cross Art Projects: by Jack Mundey with response by Peter McClelland, president CFMEU Opening of Green Bans Exhibition Part 2 at The Firstdraft Depot Project Space: by Edmund Campion with response by Joe Owens, former BLF secretary.

Walk speakers: Wendy Bacon, Meredith Burgmann, Christopher Dean, Michael Davies, Jim Donovan, Michael Dysart, Joe Owens, Stacey Miers, Merilyn Fairskye, Ian Milliss and more.

Artist participants:

Louise Kate Anderson, artist and member BFP at https://www.louisekateanderson.com/
Pat Armstrong & Jo Holder, Green Bans Victoria Street & Woolloomooloo, Map and Document
Josie Cavallero and Anne Kay
Michelle Blakeney, artist & photographer
Diego Bonetto, artist and member BFP at www.weedyconnection.com
Christine Dean, artist and art historian
Bec Dean, curator of Performance Space Art Walks, 2011. (Which incorporated the Green Bans Art Walk for 40th Anniversary of Sydney’s Green Bans). At https://www.becdean.com/contact
Pat Fiske, filmmaker and historian
Justin Hewitson, documentary filmmaker; Video Green Bans Art Walks, by Justin Hewitson, 2011
Jo Holder & Fiona MacDonald, Green Ban Archive 1971-1974
Lucas Ihlein, artist and member BFP www.lucazoid.com/bilateral
Fiona MacDonald, artist and honorary curator Kandos Museum at https://fiona-macdonald.net/
Marion Marrison at https://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/collection/works/?images=y&artist_id=marrison-marion
Ian Milliss, artist and journalist www.ianmilliss.com
Mickie Quick, artist, printmaker and designer
Joe Szabo, artist

Associated Publications, 40th Anniversary and Green Bans Exhibitions & Art Walk, 2011

CFMEU Poster for 40th Anniversary of Green Bans: Download pdf
Green Bans Art Walk, 6-page photocopy booklet, 2011.
Reviewed in: Realtime and Art Monthly Australia; and featured in the Live Art Almanac Vol.3 (2013) published by the Live Art Development Agency (LADA) in London.
Art Monthly, Shoot for the head, Ian Millis 2012: Download pdf
Green Bans City News, August 2011: Download pdf
Tracing History: Green Bans Art Walk: Read article
Walk, Performance Space, 2011. Text by Christine Dean.

Related Exhibitions and Projects on Activism, Heritage and Urbanism (Sydney) and beyond

2006: Redfern-Waterloo Tour of Beauty, 2006: a minibus tour of inner-city Sydney produced by Squatspace at SquatSpace at www.squatspace.com; also at http://lucasihlein.net/Redfern-Waterloo-Tour-of-Beauty-1
2006: It's a new day… Artspace, 2006. curator Sally Breen invited a selection of Sydney-based artists to engage with the Woolloomooloo community at https://www.artspace.org.au/program/exhibitions/2006/its-a-new-day/
2009: Housing the Seafaring Nation: Millers Point and The Rocks, 2009: An Ephemeral Public Art Installation by Ruark Lewis. National Trust (NSW), Observatory Hill; Abraham Mott Community Centre and Baby Health Centre in Millers Point, Sydney. Curator Jo Holder www.crossart.com.au
2009: There Goes The Neighbourhood, 2009: an exhibition and book about the contested inner city suburb of Redfern in Sydney, curated by Keg de Souza and Zanny Begg, Performance Space at CarriageWorks at www.redwatch.org.au/media
2010: Therese Ritchie and Chips Mackinolty, Not dead yet, a retrospective exhibition by Therese Ritchie & Chips Mackinolty, 2010
Curated by CDU Art Collection and Art Gallery Curator Anita Angel.
Not Dead Yet featured a comprehensive range of screenprints, posters, drawings, photographs, digital collage works and limited edition fine art prints and paintings, dating from 1969 (Mackinolty) and 1988 (Ritchie), through to the present day.
Not Dead Yet catalogues (special edition, 72-pages, full-colour & designed by the artists). Available through Charles Darwin University Art Gallery/CDU Bookshop: http://www.cdu.edu.au/bookshop/ or by contacting the artists
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2010-08-20/political-art/2603078
2011: The Right to the City, 2011: an exhibition, symposium and book about ways to remake cities in more socially connected and sustainable ways. curated by Zanny Begg and Lee Stickells, Tin Sheds Gallery, Architecture Faculty, Sydney University www.therighttothecity.com
2011: Green Bans Art Walk
2011: Performance Space Walks Project
2015: The Point Is? Community, Heritage, Relationships … Save Millers Point, 107projects.org in Redfern. At https://millerspointcommunity.com.au/invitation-to-the-point-is-exhibition/
2017: Claire Lewis – We live here at http://www.welivehere2017.com.au/in-the-news
2019: Zanny Begg, Beehive (film) - https://www.art-almanac.com.au/zanny-begg-the-beehive/