the printed modal jersey panels, comprising: first strike silk screen test for ’Sailor Stripe, August, 1983, 166 by 183cm; together with panels of ’Anchor Stitch’ and ’Anchor Star’,designed November, 1983, 108 by 150, 110 by 150cm; together with two SS 1984 press images; a press cutting and a Hilde Smith ’Sailor Stripe’ paper design signed by the artist and dated Nov 19, 1983 (6)The Hilde Smith ArchiveThis was the first collection in which Stevie Stewart & David Holah collaborated. Hilde Smith recalls,
’Olive Oil was the female cartoon character from ’Popeye’. Querelle is a film directed in 1982 by German director Rainer Werner Fassbinder starring Brad Davis and Jeanne Moreau and is an adaption of the novel by the French author Jean Genet Querelle de Breast (1947). It was the last film by Fassbinder who died that year. The artists Claude Monet and Camille Pissarro inspired Raoul Dufy and I in turn was inspired by Dufy’s textile scarf ’La Danse’. I made a linocut in ’BodyMap style’ re-drawing the sailor, then printed the linocut images, made photocopies before cutting and pasting the sailors into a repeat. Finally, I drew the whole design repeat in Indian ink with a dip pen in my a 1m by 1m light box desk. The prints designed in 1982 were ’Sailor Stripe’, ’Mini Anchor’, ’Star Anchor’. We used black and white black pigment on colour. We decided to produce 3 one colour prints rather than one three-colour print. The prints were produced and proofed in Bermondsey railway arches by David Jamison.