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|  Redback Graphix  | Mary Callaghan:  Posters & Graphic Design  &  Steel City Pictures  |  Revolt Posters  |  Witchworks posters  | Wollongong in posters  exhibition  2013:  Catalogue  |  Gallery  |  Opening (video)  |      Mary Callaghan (1955-2016) is best known as an Australian film director, responsible for the semi-documentary  Greetings from Wollongong 1982, the feature Tender Hooks 1989 and her work with Rights of Passage 2013. However, she was also a graphic designer and poster artist, working on a number of occasions solo, or with others such as her brother Michael Callaghan (1952-2012) and Jan Mackay. Between 1974-6 Mary attended the Film and Television School at Swinburne College, Melbourne. Her earliest screen-printed work in a public collection dates from 1975 when she made use of the facilities at the Preston Institute of Art and where, for a brief p...