"Household Basement Workshop poster" [NMLH.1994.168.539]

Catalogue Number
NMLH.1994.168.539

Object Name
Poster

Title
3: Household Basement Workshop

People
Clifford Harper

Date
1974

Description
Poster depicting a scene from a basement-turned-screen printing workshop. The main image is a drawing by Clifford Harper screen printed in black ink. It shows three women screen printing posters and hanging them up to dry. The posters read 'whoever you voted for the government got in'. On the sides of the workshop are various tools such as spirit levels, drills, paintbrushes, and a sewing machine. Created in 1974, this work was one of multiple of Harper's drawings that set out to imagine an alternative future. It was first published in a book called Radical Technology in 1976, aong with the other depictions. Condition: good