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The 2019 John Oxley Library fellowship was awarded to Louise Martin-Chew and Matthew Wengert for their joint project Designs-Details-Devils: A Visual History of Queensland’s Government Printing Office 1862-2013.

Matthew and Louise utilised the John Oxley Library collection to research the visual history of Queensland’s Government Printing Office (QGPO). The Government Printing Office was responsible for publishing official documents and information (‘Details’), including Hansard, Parliamentary Papers, Annual Reports, Royal Commissions, Acts & Bills & Regulations & Statutes, Nautical charts and Tide Timetables, Electoral Maps (and hundreds of other types of maps), Survey Plans, Railway Timetables, and other regular and occasional publications.

It generated beautiful and elaborate decorative printing (‘Designs’), including posters for the Government Intelligence & Tourist Bureau, and invitations and menus for official functions (Royal Visits, Parliamentary banquets and festive events etc.), and official artworks and illustrations for publications by all the different government departments and agencies— books, maps, charts, posters, pamphlets, and signs.

Many hundreds of people worked in the QGPO’s different sections—and the project aimed to organise a visual history of the workplace, and the staff (‘Devils’). These workers include artists William Bustard, Lloyd Rees, and Peter Smith Templeton. The gargoyles above the George Street facade represent the workers, who styled themselves as ‘printer’s devils’.

The industrious ‘Devils’’ work—creative 'Designs' and informative 'Details' published on behalf of the people and State—contribute to a rich visual history of Queensland through what the QGPO printed.

More information on the John Oxley Library Fellowship can be found online at: https://www.slq.qld.gov.au/get-involv....