Palm Sunday Peace Rally, 1988 1988

HOVEY, Lyn

Registration number

1728160

Artist/maker

HOVEY, Lyn

Title

Palm Sunday Peace Rally, 1988

Production date

1988

Medium

ink on paper

Dimensions (H x W x D)

72 x 51 cm

Inscriptions

Palm Sunday PEACE RALLY / and / FESTIVAL. 1p.m. Treasury Place, March 27th.

Credit line

Purchased, 2018
City of Melbourne Art and Heritage Collection Image courtesy of the artist Lyn Hovey

Keywords

Palm Sunday, Peace rally, Lyn Hovey, 1988, Treasury Gardens

Summary

Artist Lyn Hovey recollects the Palm Sunday Coalition requesting a poster ‘in the Ken Done style’ for its 1988 rally. The event attracted a large crowd, with special focus on justice for Aboriginal Australians in the bicentennial celebration year. Looking back 30 years later, Hovey’s rueful view is that none of the issues listed on the agenda in the poster have been fully accomplished.