Curator's note:
This poster is a remix of an original poster by the artist Ron Weil: Solidarity - Support
The Palestine Poster Project Archives show details 2:20 PM (3 hours ago) Submitted on April 02, 2011 Submitted by anonymous user: [69.236.167.123] Submitted values are: Your name: Ron Weil Your e-mail address: ronweil@yahoo.com Subject: Poster--Palestine Will Win Category: General question or comment Poster Upload: Message: On your page http://www.palestineposterproject.org/category/special-collection/chips-... you show two posters. The one entitled Palestine Will Win is claimed by Chips Mackinolty as his work. The one on the right, entitled Solidarity-Support is my work done with Gonna Rise Again Graphics in San Francisco in 1976. Mr. Mackinolty took my idea, minus some of the details and reproduced it under his own name. I would appreciate it if you would give me credit for this work as I am now a professional artist and do not enjoy seeing my work under another person's name. He took my basic idea and reproduced it as his. The following archivest of political posters can testify to the validity of my claim: Lincoln Cushing Thank you, Ron Weil Dan Walsh to ronweil show details 5:56 PM (1 minute ago) Hello Ron, Thanks for writing. Go here: http://www.palestineposterproject.org/poster/solidarity-support Q: was Gonna Rise Again Graphics the publisher or are you the publisher? Q: is the date correct? Q: Do you want me to add a link to your site? I have a new feature going up at the PPPA site soon...it is a fillable form for the artists to use when adding posters. This form puts the artists in control of how their posters are comprehended. I can send you the Word doc now if your are interested or you can just visit the site sometime after June and access it that way. I have always loved this poster and I am glad you wrote. Have you done any other Palestine posters? Michael Rossman showed it to me at his home once. I miss him. in solidarity, Dan The results of this submission may be viewed at: http://www.palestineposterproject.org/node/878/submission/209
Forwarded conversation Subject: Palestine Poster Project Archives ------------------------ From: Dan Walsh Date: Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 1:33 PM To: chips.mackinolty@amsant.org.au Hello Chips, My name is Dan Walsh and I am the curator of the Palestine Poster Project Archives: http://www.palestineposterproject.org/ I'd love to discuss your posters with you: http://www.palestineposterproject.org/artist/chips-mackinolty Mad respect. in solidarity, Dan Walsh ---------- From: Chips Mackinolty Date: Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 1:54 PM To: Dan Walsh That would be good, I was just looking at your site the other day and wondering a lot about how it works. For example, I see you have a poster I did but which was drawn from another person's work which was given to me as a black and white photograph from the west coast of the US; but also two others that don't really draw on things Palestinian at all (although anti-imperialist). Obviously, I have done hundreds of posters and graphics--more recently banners--that are not to do with Palestine. How weird, I was looking at it a couple of days ago, and from Sicily where have just arrived to have a year's break (so-called, couldn't resist the attached which I did yesterday--when in Italy, do as the Italians do!). How to have a yarn? My best email address since I am having a year off is chips.mackinolty@gmail.com. Skype? Have no idea where you want to take it. Over to you. Chips ---------- From: Dan Walsh Date: Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 3:32 PM To: chips.mackinolty@gmail.com Hello Chips, Very nice to hear from you. I got your address from Ron Weil who called me today and we spoke for the first time and it turns out we know a lot of the same artists and hung out in lots of related circles and we had an engaging chat about Bay Area posters/artists. As for how the site works..its all about Palestine. All three of your posters listed qualify in the most splendid of ways: they all feature the word "Palestine" on them. There are other elements to the definition of the genre but I won't burden you with those except to say they are at the FAQ's. Your work is so interesting to me and the people who follow the PPPA because they demonstrate, as only a poster can demonstrate, that Palestine was ensconced in Australian popular culture back in the day. Your posters are part of wonderful success story about "salvage" anthropology: the story of Palestine as told by its posters is finally being told and this is possible due to the fact that people over the past 60 years have produced/conserved Palestine posters and the emergence of the internet. Now all those posters that have been identified can be seen in one place and there is even a chance that a majority of the posters produced on Palestine since at least the 1930's will one day be identified and added to the website. Imagine...a genre that had everything going for it creatively had everything politically against it...cheats death and comes back in glorious color.... and just in time to be of use in BDS, Israeli Apartheid Week... Enjoy your break. Dan ---------- From: Chips Mackinolty Date: Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 3:52 PM To: Dan Walsh OK, in that case you are missing at least a couple of posters from the late Michael Callaghan, who while he was at Earthworks did a couple of major posters about Palestine. See what you can find on the Net, if not I will try and chase through his Estate for your archive. His last work was on the militarisation of the Middle East, check Damien Minton Gallery in Sydney. I did the attached as a print and a banner for his memorial exhibition: the Arabic says; "Artists against the war machine" (pp 14-15). cheers Chips ---------- From: Dan Walsh Date: Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 6:31 PM To: Chips Mackinolty Hi Chips, Wow! PPPA actually had a poster by Michael but we did not know it: http://www.palestineposterproject.org/poster/israel-is-occupied-palestine Thanks to you...now we do. Please look over the John Percy Collection...maybe you can identify some other artists' work? MANY thanks. And if you know of any other posters/artists who have done work on Palestine...the PPPA is there to honor their work. in solidarity, Dan ---------- From: Dan Walsh Date: Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 6:33 PM To: Chips Mackinolty PS: Is there ANY chance you have any copies of your Palestine poster left? We would love to have a copy and we can do a trade...look at the PPPA Duplicates/Exchange icon on the left of the website page. Also...do you know if Redback Graphix ever did any Palestine-related posters? My company, Liberation Graphics, carried RBG back in the day but I don't recall any Palestine work. Do you? Dan