Posters and Graphic Design
Mary Callaghan: | Posters & Graphic Design | Steel City Pictures | Mary Callaghan (1955-2016) is best known as an Australian film director, responsible for the semi-documentary Greetings from Wollongong 1982, the feature Tender Hooks 1989 and her work with Rights of Passage 2013. However, she was also a graphic designer and poster artist, working on a number of occasions solo, or with others such as her brother Michael Callaghan (1952-2012) and Jan Mackay. Between 1974-6 Mary attended the Film and Television School at Swinburne College, Melbourne. Her earliest screen-printed work in a public collection dates from 1975 when she made use of the facilities at the Preston Institute of Art and where, for a brief period, she was a lecturer in film studies. For a number of years during the late 1970s Mary was also a collaborator at the Earthworks Poster Collective, Tin Sheds, University of Sydney. She exhibited in the 'Walls Sometimes Speak' exhibition of 1977 and did