A Wollongong-based feminist poster and print collective
Wollongong Womens Centre, banner image, Witchworks Women Printing, n.d. [1980-4], silkscreen on cloth. Witchworks posters and associated promotional materials - produced by the Witchworks Print Collective, or Witchworks Women Printing - grew out of the vibrant feminist social justice scene in Wollongong during the late 1970s and early 1980s, in tandem with similar metropolitan-based movements such as the Earthworks Poster Collective at the University of Sydney (Yuill 2015) and the rebirth worldwide of International Women's Day. According to records in the archives of the Wollongong Women's Information Centre (WWIC), the Witchworks Print Collective formed around 1978, before officially joining the WWIC in 1980 and working in close collaboration with that organisation through to 1984. The WWIC remains in operation as the Wollongong Women's Information Service, though since its formation it has also been known as The Women's Centre, or a variation thereof. As of the be