George Orwell Archives

Stru’s Bob! 2012

Stru’s Bob! 2012 Hand-woven archival ink-jet prints. The entire text from George Orwell’s Animal Farm
113 x 221 cm framed, each panel approx. 87 x 61 cm

Stru’s Bob! detail 1 2012

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Stru’s Bob! detail 2 2012

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Stru’s Bob! detail 3 2012

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Samizdat 2011

Samizdat 2011 Page from The Theory and Practice of Oligarchical Collectivism, in theory. Hand-woven ink-jet archival prints
28 x 19 cm

The Theory and Practice of Oligarchical Collectivism, by Emmanuel Goldstein, is the fictional book that is a thematic and plot element integral to the dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949), by George Orwell. A large portion of Nineteen Eighty-Four is a reproduction of portions of the samizdat publication allegedly written by Emmanuel Goldstein and known simply as “The Book”, although its actual title is The Theory and Practice of Oligarchical Collectivism.

I Don’t Know What to Believe Anymore 2005

I Don’t Know What To Believe Anymore 2005 The names of the farms seized by the government of Zimbabwe printed onto a Farming Region map of Zimbabwe. This is hand-woven together with a shredded copy of George Orwell’s Animal Farm
82 x 89 cm (image by Ant Strack)

I Don’t Know What to Believe Anymore (detail 1) 2005

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I Don’t Know What to Believe Anymore (detail 2) 2005

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Dan Halter