Wringing Shirt 1974
76cm. X 49cm. 30in. X 19 1/2 in.
BFK Rives
Edition 30, plus several proofs
Awards
Ontario Arts Council competition, 1974 Editions 1 award $1000.
Eighth Burnaby Biennial Print Show, 1975 Juror’s First Selection Award $2000.
Solo Curated Exhibitions*
Mary Rawlyk, 1974 Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Kingston, Ontario
Mary E. Rawlyk , 1985 The Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Oshawa, Ontario, travelled to Mount St.Vincent University Art Gallery, Halifax, Nova Scotia 1986
Kingston Public Library 1986
Slow Boil, 2006, two artist show with video artist Martha Rosler, Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Kingston On
Unpaid Labour, 2015, Art Gallery of Burlington
Group Exhibitions
New Canadian Images, 1975-6 Marlborough Goddard Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
Editions 1 Downtown (Kingston)Jan.Feb. 1975. sponsored by the Ontario Arts Council, The Agnes Etherington Art Centre, and Kingston Downtown Business Association
Femisphere, 1975, The Canadian National Exhibition, Toronto On
Collections
Art Gallery of Ontario
The Robert McLaughlin Gallery
Agnes Etherington Art Centre
York University
Banff School of Fine Art
Seneca College
Burnaby Art Gallery
Ministere des Affaires
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Shell Canada Resources
Clarkson Gordon
Several Other Ontario Public Galleries that received this print from the Ontario Arts Council
Private collections
Notes
The shirt plate for this print, is etched through soft ground and then relief printed with a roller. The wringer image is screen printed. The rollers are relief printed.
The shirt in this print has a reality which a photograph does not normally have. With visible seams and threads and a button hole on the cuff, it is the accurate size of a real shirt. The realness of this image exposes the unseen reality of the labour involved in wringing water from a wet shirt.
This print appears on the cover of the book by Dr. Joy Parr, titled “Domestic Goods, the Material, the Moral, and the Economic in Postwar Years”.
Unwinding