Wayzgoose Broadside (14 results)

70cm x 50cm, No. 5 in a series of occasional broadsides, set in various typefaces and sizes, printed in three colours on Magnami Incisioni, limited edition of 50 copies, signed and dated by Mike Hudson, this copy No.33, published as a typegraphic tribute to commemorate the bi-centenary of Mozart's death. 1991 signed limited edition.

Broadside, with several typefaces, including large wood type, printed in four colours on Mohawk Superfine, which includes quotation from Clifford Burke's 'Printing Poetry. A work of typographic reflection'; 52 cm. x 37 cm.; The Wayzgoose Press, Katoomba, NSW, 1998. Edition limited to 76 copies, this version one, being one of 50 unnumbered copies printed for Typomania, an international portfolio of artists' prints (version two was limited to 26 copies printed on Mohawk Superfine). *This year Typomania left the choice of subject to individual participants. 'We decided to celebrate the joie de letterpress with LEAD AIN'T DEAD- the simple message printed in two colours from large wood letters, using a heavily stepped make-ready which gave the type a toothsome texture. A stock block of a little dove trailed a thin red streamer across the wood type (making use of our recently discovered talents for bending metal, the streamer was printed from a lead rule). . Jadwiga Jarvis, The Wayzgoose Affair.

Broadside, printed in red and black on Ghost Gum, with a wood engraving by Mike Hudson; 49 cm. x 19.5 cm., unfolded; The Wayzgoose Press, Katoomba, NSW, 1998[1999]. Edition of 850 copies, 800 produced for inclusion in Matrix 19 and 50 unnumbered copies for sale. *This is a smaller and variant version of Broadside No. 17, produced as an insertion to accompany an article on the Wayzgoose Broadsides in Matrix 19. It is of smaller dimensions with a finer, smaller vignette engraving with various differences to the original, including Mike and Jadwiga holding goblets instead of cutlery, a wine bottle standing on the job case, and a slightly different version of the kangaroo; the line markings dividing the vignette from the text and the end of the text has three solid lines.

Lettre au President de la Republique par Wayzgoose Press. Broadside, printed in a variety of san serif types on black Canson in six colours with shades of white, title cut in lino and printed in red, white & blue; 44 x 35 cm.; The Wayzgoose Press, Katoomba, NSW, 1993. Number 19 of 50 copies, signed by Mike Hudson (40 for sale) offered only to subscribers of Private Impressions. *With 2 fold prospectus. ". In keeping with the theme and spirit of this latest Private Impressions, we have created a limited edition BROADSIDE in the form of a nose-tweaking letter to Jacques Chirac. The text, written in Franglais, has been set in a variety of sans serif types and designed in the shape of a mushroom cloud. Printed in shades of white on black Canson paper. ." Wayzgoose prospectus.

Printed in seven colours on Magnani Incisioni, with linocut by Mike Hudson, and text beginning If the word's water supply is purloined .; 65 cm. x 420 cm.; The Wayzgoose Press, Katoomba, NSW, 2004. Number 13 of 15 numbered copies, signed by Mike Hudson and Jadviga Jarvis. *A smaller five colour version of 70 copies was produced for insertion in the 2004 Typomania Portfolio, an international portfolio of artists' prints, (subject 'Water - a public right or private property?'). The linocut depicts 'the most common of containers, the sardine tin, containing the most common, yet most precious liquid, water. .,'. Jadwiga Jarvis, The Wayzgoose Affair. The text is a brief comment about the suspect agendas of private ownership of life's basic necessities.

Broadside, printed in several shades of gun-metal grey, with linocut by Mike Hudson; 58 cm. x 43 cm.; The Wayzgoose Press, Katoomba, NSW, 2003. Number 14 of 15 copies, signed by Mike Hudson. *The subject for the 2003 Typomania portfolio was Reform. "We imagined a kind of Tower of Babel, a dysfunctional, crumbling edifice whose building blocks were the initial letters of global institutions like the IMF, UN, NATO, G8 et al, which rose high into the skies but those who climbed it never made any progress. The structure was undermined by a circular arrangement of a multiple printing of the word "reform" trailing behind a saw blade which was sawing away the very ground from under the tower's foundations." Jadwiga Jarvis, The Wayzgoose Affair. The image also shows a businessman on a mobile phone walking around the top of the tower via stairs. A slightly different smaller version was produced for inclusion in the Typomania XVII Portfolio, an international portfolio of artists' prints, printed on Eiderdruck.

A Broadside celebrating Stefan Bartkowiak's 100th exhibition of book arts; printed in colours with central illustration by Mike Hudson; 50 cm. x 40 cm.; The Wayzgoose Press, Katoomba, NSW, 2000. Artist's Proof, signed by Mike Hudson & Jadwiga Jarvis. *"This broadside celebrates the 100th exhibition of book arts which were presented all over Europe by Stefan Bartkowiak of 'Forum Book Art' over the past decade. (The place names are some of the venues.) It will be contained in a portfolio together with some 30 other graphic/u8203? typographic artists' prints and presented to SB as a memento of the occasion and acknowledgement of his services to book arts. We printed a few spare copies for our friends whose support for the same cause is equally deserving of recognition! . ldblquote - Letter from Mike Hudson and Jadwiga Jarvis" (Trove).

Set in two typefaces and printed in three colours and black on Magnani Incisioni, with a linocut by Mike Hudson; 70 cm. x 50 cm.; The Wayzgoose Press, Katoomba, NSW, 1999. No. 11 of 25 copies, signed and dated 'M.H. '99'. *The broadside features the flag of the United States as a hangman's noose about to be cut by a pair of scissors to fall into a black trapdoor, the walls of which are wrapped in text. The text, which has interline text in red, begins: The increase in the number of so called democratic states over the last twenty five years .The broadside was also issued in a smaller variant edition (Broadside No. 21) for inclusion in Typomania XIII, an international portfolio of artists' prints. Broadside No. 13 also featured the theme of globalisation.

Broadside, printed in seven colours, with linocut by Mike Hudson; 50 cm. x 35 cm.; The Wayzgoose Press, Katoomba, NSW, 2002. 70 copies produced for Typomania XVI, this being one of a small number of artist's proofs, signed by Mike Hudson & Jadwiga Jarvis. *'Hans Hergot, a contemporary of Martin Luther, was a printer and travelling book-seller from Nuremburg. He printed Reformation pamphlets criticising the Catholic Church and promoted his own vision of a social Utopia, much to the displeasure of the authorities. His anti-establishment stance eventually led to his beheading in May 1527. . The Hans Hergot broadside focused on the protagonist's rejection of the values of the Catholic Church. We chose to express it through a bold linocut image showing a brick to which the message raus (out) is tied by rosary beads, flying through the page and heading for the nearest (though unseen) stain-glass window. Being an image of protest. we kept the colour stark and limited, though in reality the broadside went through the press many times to enhance the graphic's 3-dimentional qualities.' Jadwiga Jarvis, The Wayzgoose Affair.

Broadside, printed in six colours on Magnani Incisioni, with a linocut by Mike Hudson; 70 cm. x 50 cm.; The Wayzgoose Press, Katoomba, NSW, 2000. Number 22 of 25 copies, signed by Mike Hudson and Jadwiga Jarvis. *'Designed for Typomania XIV [an international portfolio of artists' prints], the broadside featured a two-colour linocut of a computer mouse trapped in an old-fashioned mouse trap stamped with the maker's brand name, place and date of manufacture: The Gutenberg, Mainz 1400. The electronic rodent's tail snaked its way through an otherwise solid, large block of text above . . .' Jadwiga Jarvis, The Wayzgoose Affair. 50 copies of a small version were printed for inclusion in Typomania XIV. Signed.

Broadside, printed in five colours, with a linocut by Mike Hudson above a quote from Franz Kafka's The Trial: 'It's often safer to be in chains than to be free.'.; 70 cm. x 50 cm.; The Wayzgoose Press, Katoomba, NSW, 2000. Number 12 of 20 copies, signed by Mike Hudson & Jadwiga Jarvis. *Broadside inspired by the government's GST/Tax reform campaign, and its advertising theme song, Joe Cocker's Unchain my heart. The large linocut by Mike Hudson is of a continuous chain, a broken link of which is pulling out the pin from an attached grenade - predicting the culture shock which was about to overwhelm the country. .' Jadwiga Jarvis, The Wayzgoose Affair.

Broadside, set in a variety of typefaces and type sizes and printed in three colours on Magnami Incisioni, with a wood engraving by Mike Hudson; 70 cm. x 50 cm.; The Wayzgoose Press, Katoomba, NSW, 1991. Edition limited to 50 numbered copies, signed and dated by Mike Hudson, this number 49. *Eleven short excerpts from letters written by Mozart (selected by musician and writer Jyoti Brundsen), published as a typographic tribute to commemorate the bicentenary of Mozart's death.

Broadside, printed in red and black on Ghost Gum, with a wood cut by Mike Hudson; 59 cm. x 25 cm; folded twice; The Wayzgoose Press, Katoomba, NSW, 1998. Limitation not stated. *Jadwiga Jarvis, in The Wayzgoose Affair (2007), writes: 'PRINTING BY HAND AIN'T NO PICNIC was a humorous and fairly accurate explanation of the origin and meaning of the word "wayzgoose" (a printers annual picnic) accompanied by a woodcut depicting Mike and I sharing a bottle of wine over a type case balanced on the back of a recumbent kangaroo. The title, set in three lines of wood type, progressively deteriorated in quality, putting flesh on the sentiment it expressed. .'. A smaller version was produced for inclusion in Matrix 19 (Broadside No. 19, 1999). In this first version the title is not underlined, the line markings at top and bottom of text are one wavey and one solid line, Mike is holding a font speared on a fork and Jadwiga is holding a knife, and there are two wine glasses on the type case.

Broadside, printed in seven colours on Magnani Incisioni, with linocut by Mike Hudson; 70 cm. x 50 cm.; The Wayzgoose Press, Katoomba, NSW, 2000. Number 20 of 20 numbered copies, signed by Mike Hudson. *'Taking aim at US foreign policy, [the broadside] depicted the Statue of Liberty setting fire to a line of 'cut-out' paper dolls with her torch. A text quoting Madeleine Albright's (the then Secretary of State) assessment of sanctions as being among "some of the most powerful weapons in our armoury" was countered by "some sobering UNICEF statistics attributing the deaths of more than 500,000 Iraqi children under five years old to embargo related causes. The illustrations were cut in lino and the whole printed in seven colours." Jadwiga Jarvis, The Wayzgoose Affair. According to Trove, two versions exist for this broadside.