Newsletter and IYOP Initiatives Australian Coalition '99

AC '99 UPDATE - EDITION No. 6 (February 1999)
IYOP NEWS

Ageing Denomination

The Royal Australian Mint began the New Year with the announcement of the release of the new effigy of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, by Ian Rank-Broadley, which will appear on circulating coins later in the year. Since the Queen's crowning in 1953 there have been four effigies of Her Majesty. Later this year the Royal Australian Mint will produce a new batch of circulating coins displaying the new portrait.

The Royal Australian Mint has released two 1999 Six Coin Sets to commemorate IYOP. The theme of "Australia- towards a society for all ages" has been chosen for the Sets which are available in proof and uncirculated finishes. In both sets, the $1 coin is devoted to the logo representing the Year, which is surrounded by a border stating the name of the Year and the theme. Standard designs of 5c, 10c, 20c 50c and $2 coins are represented on the other coins in the sets. There is also a special memento coin set for babies born in 1999.

For more information on the $1 IYOP coin, call the Royal Australian Mint on 1300 652 020.

Photographs of the IYOP coin are available from AAP Image Website or call 1800 644 348.

Age & Consent

"Age & Consent" is the new exhibition by the photographic artist, Ella Dreyfus, who developed the award-winning and controversial Pregnancy Series in 1992. Ella spent time as artist-in-residence in the aged care unit of a Sydney hospital to develop "Age & Consent" which features confronting images of older women in the nude and both male and female hospital patients with dementia. Of Ella's pregnancy series, Eva Cox of University of NSW said,"I think we owe Ella a great debt that she has had the courage and the persistence to create this marvellous collection of images." Similarly, Naomi Wolf commented,"A dazzling look at a state that is so often denigrated as a disability. The richer the images we have of our bodies the better it is for our minds."

The Body Shop is a key sponsor of the "Age & Consent" exhibition which has already started to provoke much interest within general media.

It opens at the Stills Gallery, 36 Gosbell Street, Paddington, NSW on March 17 through to April 17, 1999.

Enquiries: Stills Gallery
Tel: (02) 9331 7775 Fax:(02) 9331 1648 email: photoart@stillsgallery.com.au Ella Dreyfus: (02) 9555 8798

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