Noel COUNIHAN
Joe! Joe! The traps are coming 1954 from the Eureka 1854 - 1954 series 1954
Linocut
20.2 x 15.4cm
Purchased, 1954.

"Joe! Joe!" No one in the world can properly understand and describe the shouting of "Joe," unless he were on this El Dorado of Ballarat at the time. It was a horrible day, plagued by the hot winds. A blast of hurricane winding through the gravel pits whirled towards the Eureka this shouting of "Joe." ... It was a scarecrow for the miners, who now scrambled down to the deep, and left a licensed mate or two at the windlass ... Are diggers dogs or savages, that they are to be hunted on the diggings, commanded to come out of their holes, and summoned from their tents by these hounds of the executive?

CARBONI RAFFAELLO, The Eureka Stockade

Reproduced from printed text accompanying the print portfolio Popular Print Series: A Folio of (mainly) linocuts, by Various Artists. This is work of art is one of three linocuts produced by Noel Counihan for the print portfolio. The folio is the work of ten artists, produced by the Melbourne Popular Art Group and pays tribute to a great occassion in our history - the stand of the Ballarat miners in the Eureka Stockade.