Now don’t you worry about that
Feb 16th, 2007 by Hil
An action shot of Joh Bjelke-Peterson welcoming guests to the launch of the Campaign - Federal Elections exhibition at Old Parliament House yesterday! Here is a slightly clearer one of him with Malcolm Fraser. Old Parliament House had a collection of the photographic masks of politicians, but I was asked to make the cartoon Joh last week.
The exhibition itself consists of photos by Andrew Chapman; you can see some of them here. They are wonderful ‘fly on the wall’ glimpses of electioneering politicians and political events from the Fraser years onwards. I was most amused by the ones of Beazley, because he so often looked like a jovial dag, but others were arresting.
Did you make the giant Menzies puppet that turned up to a NPG opening a few years ago?
No, wish I had! He and Doc Evatt were made by Kassandra Bossell, who is a freelancer in Sydney, with associations with eRTH. Here’s an earlier post about them
http://spiritsdancing.typepad.com/spirits_dancing/2004/10/_floriade_has_b.html