Peter Wilcock - Australian AIDS Memorial Quilt panel

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Quilt panel, part of Australian AIDS Memorial Quilt, in memory of 'Peter Wilcock', cotton / metal / paint / ink / synthetic textile / padding, various makers, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, about 1996 Rectangular quilt panel, portrait orientation. Th…

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Visit the page Malcolm Webb - Australian AIDS Memorial Quilt panel Rectangular quilt panel, landscape orientation, on a pink and white vertically striped background. 'Malcolm Webb' and the dates '21.7.43 - 16.2.94' are painted in brown paint. There are five machine-appliqued patchwork flowers placed at random and two small blocks with patchwork fans in each of the lower corners.
Visit the page Stanley John - Australian AIDS Memorial Quilt panel Quilt panel, part of Australian AIDS Memorial Quilt, in memory of Stanley John, cotton / velvet / ink, maker unknown, Australia, about 1995 Rectangular quilt panel, landscape orientation, on light brown velvet background. The panel has 'STANLEY JOHN' in large green capital letters flowing across the face, with the dates '9. 8.42' and '16.2.94' also in green. A yellow sunflower with a black centre and a 'bee' motif is in the top left corner, and a white 'peace dove' is in the lower right corner. All of the design is machine appliqued.
Visit the page ‘Monty’ - Australian AIDS Memorial Quilt panel Quilt panel, part of Australian AIDS Memorial Quilt, in memory of Monty, cotton / paint / ink, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, about 1992 Rectangular quilt panel, landscape orientation, on a plain calico background. There is a black movie camera in the centre of the panel. The dates 1967 and 1992 are written in purple paint in each of the film rolls on the top of the camera. 'MONTY' is written in purple paint on the box of the camera. Three painted strips of 'film' enter the camera from the left and are emitted as a rainbow of light from the right. The following phrases are written in capitals on the 'film': 'Only dance music will do; looking great but hating pretense; $5 all you can eat and eat and eat; I can do that; watermelon smile; $40 T-shirt $10 dinner suit; seeing all the new releases; watching movies 10 rows from the front; rice: boiled not fried; stolen Madeira cake; cheap Hare Krisna (sic) food; the Great Bargain Hunter; manderines (sic) and hot chocolate; party hard; cheeky'.
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Peter Wilcock – Australian AIDS Memorial Quilt panel

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