The programme cover artwork was designed by Robyn Caughlan.
Robyn is a prolific artist and designer who has exhibited in many art shows, fashion parades and pageants. Her work has travelled to Saudi Arabia,New York, Las Vegas, Egypt, Auckland, Trinidad, Manila, and Namibia. She was voted Aboriginal Artist of the Year in 1990 and 1991 and subsequently became the director of the Boomalli Gallery, the first Sydney art gallery to be run by Indigenous artists and display work created only by Indigenous Australians. Robyn has painted many murals and has paintings in public collections but she has recently turned to fashion design as her creative outlet. She has been asked to design the Australian National Dress for the Miss Universe pageant for five consecutive years.
Indigenous fashion designers have mostly operated outside the mainstream of Australian fashion. This in itself raises interesting questions about the dynamics of the fashion industry and the interelationship between two distinct cultures that coexist in Australia.

Printed for the Parramatta Riverside Theatres, 1998.

Given to Robyn Caughlan after she had designed the cover.

Programme, 'Parramatta Riverside Theatres 1988-1998', Robyn Caughlan, Penrith, New South Wales, 1998.
11 page fold out programme with artwork on front cover by Robyn Caughlan.
Single piece of paper, portrait format, multicoloured, with artwork and photographs. A solid orange backed header is across the top of every page. Details of performances by various artists and groups are given for March through to December. The front page has the title and artwork and across the bottom right corner is written 'Robyn Caughlan / 97 "c"'. The full title is 'Parramatta Riverside Theatres / a pocketful of procductions / 1988-1998'.

Designed: Caughlan, Robyn; ; 1997


Owned: Caughlan, Robyn;

99/135/3

1997

985 mm