Selected works above (l. to r.) Rally against ‘Grand Theft WestCONNex’, NSW Parliament House, April 2017 [Pip Hinman 2017], Rozelle Against WestConnex (RAW) logo [Mark Titmarsh 2017], ‘WestConnex Destroys Communities’ stencilling outside 44 Callan Street, Rozelle [David Watson 2017], ‘WestCONnex NOT HERE NOT ANYWHERE’ sign [Cassi Plate 2017], Women of WestCONnex [Janet Kossy 2016], Mark Titmarsh [in yellow] delivers opening ‘slam’ REGRESS (2017) + (above) WestCONnex Bigger Bottle SAME NECK! banner [Marg Carter/Janette Willett/Brian Gorman/Holly Gorman/Peter Hehir], ‘WestConnex An Exercise In Corruption’ stencil [Anon Ymous 2016], Baird’s Butchery [Susan Dorothea White 2016], ‘WestCONnex Juggernaut’ graphic [Denise Corrigan 2016], Paperbark rubbings, Sydney Park [Vivien Johnson/Lorrie Graham/Jacqui Sykes 2017], Andrew Chuter in John Bartholomew’s WestCONnex UNFILTERED costume, Victoria Road, Rozelle, March 2017 [Marg Carter 2017], NO WESTCONNEX [Opera House] [Andrew Chuter 2016], Protest on White Bay footbridge, Rozelle, February 2017 [Denise Corrigan 2017], WESTCONNEX Traffic Jam (John Bartholomew/Colin Charlton 2015), Removing Trees at Night - DUNCAN GAY (Rozelle Book Club 2017), STOP WestCONnex (mother and child), Darling Street, Rozelle [Denise Corrigan 2016], Three Volumes from the Library of Failed Motorways [Andrew Chuter 2016]
Rozelle Book Club @ Sydney Writers’ Festival, May 2017
Sensitive Receivers: Rejecting WestCONnex
Urgent visual work by 40 Sydney artists and activists + screenings of TUNNEL VISION (Ivan Hexter's doco re the 'people power' defeat of Melbourne's $18 billion East West Link), BLIGHT (John Smith's elegy to M11-Link-devastated East London) and CARMAGEDDON (Gavin Gatenby's exposé of WCX's decimation of St Peters and Alexandria)… mounted in our Rozelle home studio at a key point in the campaign against WestConnex.
One weekend only! Sat 13 + Sun 14 May 2017
Exhibition + e-catalogue organised by David Watson, with Denise Corrigan…
Sensitive Receivers 80 pp exhibition e-catalogue
Featuring…
Michael Agzarian • Ben Aveling • John Bartholomew • Peter Boyle • Marg Carter • Andrew Chuter • Denise Corrigan • Poppy Danis • DA$ POLiT!X • Richard Dudley-Smith • Ros Dunlop • Tony Fuery • Brian Gorman • Holly Gorman • Lorrie Graham • Anne Greig • Peter Hehir • Pip Hinman • Lucinda Hujer • Paul Jeffery • Vivien Johnson • Janet Kossy • Pauline Lockie • Neil Phillips • Cassi Plate • Margaret Roberts • Corinne Sellers • Adrienne Shilling • Jacqui Sykes • Joel Tarling • Mark Titmarsh • John ‘Toddy’ Todhunter • David Watson • Alana West • Susan Dorothea White • Cathy Wilcox • Janette Willett • Anon Ymous
The exhibition’s title is a play on WCX's own beige jargon – sensitive receivers are those 'in the zone' – people, homes and businesses under threat from the gargantuan tollway's proposed routes across and beneath Sydney, those whose close-knit communities are being wrought asunder, whose health & environmental amenity face years of disruption, dust, noise and vibration.
Artists, too, are 'sensitive receivers' – quick to detect, reveal, sound the alarm – canaries in the mine.
At the top of our street in Rozelle, WestConnex intends to demolish 27 homes and businesses on Victoria Road for a tollway/tunnel no-one needs or will be able to afford ($109/week Parramatta to Rozelle). Spend the $45 billion on public transport!
Event supported by Rozelle Against WestConnex (RAW) with No WestCONnex: Public Transport, Save Ashfield Park, Newtown Residents Against WestCONnex, EcoTransit Sydney, Leichhardt Against WestCONnex, WestConnex Action Group and Inner West Studio Trail.
BOTTLENECK!
60,000 copies of RAW’s 20 pp anti-WestCONnex newspaper BOTTLENECK! were printed in August 2017. 50,000 were delivered by volunteers to homes across the inner west, and copies sent to politicians across the country. The newspaper presented cogent argument against WCX by traffic planners, residents, environmental, heritage & social commentators, scientists, medicos, climate experts, performers and visual artists.
Click here to download an emailable PDF of the 20 pp newspaper.