"It had to happen. Carnaby Street was the centre of fashion in the 60s. The 70s belonged to Haight-Ashbury's flower children. Then in the 80s Melbourne gave birth to Brunswick Street - epicentre of an emerging arts movement. Three subcultures - grungers, bohemians and radical feminists collided and brought forth a dynamic that changed the face of the inner city. The meteoric rise of Brunswick Street was a cultural explosion of art, theatre, fashion, grunge, music, drugs, diverse sexuality, celebrity and politics."Maz WilsonBrunswick Street, Art & Revolution is the story of a street that became a culture. Written by Anne Rittman and Maz Wilson, it consists of a series of interviews and colour photographs with and of the people who brought about that transformation. It teems with characters: baristas, hair-cutters, potters, comedians, painters, singers, poets, restaurateurs and more.It evokes iconic places: the Black Cat, Pigtale Pottery, The Flying Trapeze, T F Much Ballroom, Bakers, Circus Oz , Scully & Trombone and the list goes on.-It bursts with visual impact: performances, artworks, architecture and the Waiters' Race for example.
Here it is in its true form as a cultural, social and political history.It was a pioneering spirit which created its own centre of gravity. Early on the street had a frisson of excitement. Artists rubbing shoulders with criminals in a quarter acre block. -Rod Quantock.Laughter is the shock absorber of life! -Tim McKewIt was love at first coffee -Sandra Goldbloom Zurbo
"It had to happen. Carnaby Street was the centre of fashion in the 60s. The 70s belonged to Haight-Ashbury's flower children. Then in the 80s Melbourne gave birth to Brunswick Street - epicentre of an emerging arts movement. Three subcultures - grungers, bohemians and radical feminists collided and brought forth a dynamic that changed the face of the inner city. The meteoric rise of Brunswick Street was a cultural explosion of art, theatre, fashion, grunge, music, drugs, diverse sexuality, celebrity and politics."Maz WilsonBrunswick Street, Art & Revolution is the story of a street that became a culture. Written by Anne Rittman and Maz Wilson, it consists of a series of interviews and colour photographs with and of the people who brought about that transformation. It teems with characters: baristas, hair-cutters, potters, comedians, painters, singers, poets, restaurateurs and more.It evokes iconic places: the Black Cat, Pigtale Pottery, The Flying Trapeze, T F Much Ballroom, Bakers, Circus Oz , Scully & Trombone and the list goes on.-It bursts with visual impact: performances, artworks, architecture and the Waiters' Race for example.
Here it is in its true form as a cultural, social and political history.It was a pioneering spirit which created its own centre of gravity. Early on the street had a frisson of excitement. Artists rubbing shoulders with criminals in a quarter acre block. -Rod Quantock.Laughter is the shock absorber of life! -Tim McKewIt was love at first coffee -Sandra Goldbloom Zurbo
maz wilson - writer/activist 1t f much ballroom - greg hunt 9mary kenneally - comedian 12rod quantok -comedian 15royal derby - james duncan 21tim mckew - performer/satirist 23sue ingleton - comedian 27tim scally - comedian 29tracy harvey - comedian 35the whittle family 37rina reiss - from pickles to performers 39biba - haircutters - pavlos divitaris 41james may - writer 43my beautiful laundrette - by james may 45enzo & meena - haircutters 47the troubadour - by helen booth 54the primitive calculators - dave light 61christine wirtz - painter/printmaker 63hares & hyenas - crusader hillis 65the vegie bar - laki and marianne 69fran begley - printmaker 72the punters club- betty wade-ennis and tony ennis 77the sod club - jo darvell 84rhumbarellas - suzi alesandra 87the black cat- henry maas & toni Edwards 91the bachelors from prague - henry maas 99peaches la creme - performer 101pg printmaker gallery - margie burnet 105bakers - miriam and david robinson 113dizzy spinners - vicki philipp 119polyester - paul elliott 123grant alexander mccracken - painter, poet and spruiker 130joe dolce - songwriter/performer 133misfit - lin van hek 135terrence doran - filmmaker 137fetish - craig baker 139fetish - john ashton 141lucrezia & de sade - wayne nicol 145scally and trombone - lou scally 150brunswick st bookstore - peter mews 157palz vaughan - fringe festival director 160free energy device & the sonic arts collective - paul ryan- poet/musician/lightning conductor 170black pepper publishing- kevin pearson and gail hannah 173avatar polymorph - writer, transhumanist and activist 178hugh mcspedden - projectionist 182greenstore - anne eckersley 186babka - sashia & niko lewis 187brian scott - painter/sculptor 191antenna haircutters - ernesto and vanessa 196toni mcdonald - raconnteur 198pigtale 199pigtale - anne rittman - activist 201pigtale - gillian welch - ceramist/painter 211marie mill/Marcia - perry - painter/writer 216ruth lyon - sculptor/fi lmmaker 217pigtale - sandra bowkett - ceramist 223pigtale - lene kuhl jakobsen - ceramist 226pigtale - jenny mcsweeney - ceramist 230pigtale - brenda reidy - painter/writer 231pigtale - sue pearson - painter 234pigtale - jane sinclair - painter 237pigtale - the capp twins 241punk girl bands - annie piranha 243jenny 'pineapple' martinelli - activist/musician/painter 246raneri ceramics - joe raneri 249roar studios - julie rosewarne foster 253eve hayman - roar studios - by karan hayman 256stephen mc carthy - sculptor 258roar studios - richard birmingham - painter 261roar studio - bruce earles - painter 266roar studios - russell cook - painter/sculptor 270roar studios - ann howie - painter 271roar studios - sarah faulkner - painter 275the womens gallery 277jan ross - painter 279
Anne Rittman taught art and filmmaking in Victorian Primary and Secondary schools for over 23 years. She co-founded and managed Pigtale, a design studio and small manufacturing business in Brunswick Street, Fitzroy. Anne was the instigator and a founding member of The Women's Gallery which ran successfully for 8 years in Brunswick Street. She also created the Australian Student International Film Festival which opened at ACMI in 2002, then moved to the Capital Theatre in 2004.Anne studied writing at RMIT, producing Telling Tales, an anthology of short stories, The Spider and the Fly, a short film. She also co-shot the documentary The Touched, a film made inside the walls of Maiti Nepal, an institution sheltering women who escaped the horrors of child trafficking in India and had returned to Nepal.Anne is the co-author of Brunswick Street Art & Revolution.Maz Wilson taught photography in Victorian Secondary Schools. She travelled extensively, building a worldwide photographic collection. She has exhibited at the Buoyancy Gallery in Richmond and more recently in Castlemaine. She was a partner at Pigtale ceramic design studio. Maz designed the last mudbrick house to be built in Castlemaine. She completed the Professional Writing and Editing Diploma at RMIT University. Maz Wilson is the co-author of Brunswick Street, Art & Revolution.
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