Browse Items (23 total)

  • Collection: Rocky Dobey Portfolio

July 11 1991.jpg
The first day of the Oka uprising.

Book_02 1990.jpg
This was a painted book installed on Bathurst Street.

05prison justice day 1990.tif
A painted book bolted to a street pole near the Don Jail in Toronto.

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A drug overdose memorial plaque bolted to a street pole.

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A street installed memorial on Parliament Street. In Toronto. I miss Jim.

Nothing to Smile About.jpg
Photo from 1988 at Queen and Gladstone in Toronto. "After years of tight fisted colonialism... nothing to smile about."

Rosie Died Plaque94.jpg
This was a plaque that was chained to a street post on Queen Street.

Billboard_15 1989.jpg
This hand painted billboard bolted to the top of an abandoned building at Queen and John was a political parody referring to the billboards for the movie 1984.

Billboard_11 1988.jpg
An anti-apartheid art piece installed on an abandoned building at Queen and John.

Billboard_05 1987.jpg
An unauthorized feminist billboard installed on an abandoned building at Queen and Portland.

Billboard_17 1984.jpg
These parody advertising billboards were bolted to an abandoned building on Augusta Avenue, north of Dundas Street.

Billboard_06 1988.jpg
This painting was installed on a vacant building at Portland and Queen St.

1989 politics no graditude.tif
This was bolted to a building on Ryerson Avenue in Toronto.

Billboard_13 1986.jpg
Political billboard bolted to an abandoned building on Queen Street West.

1985 street billboard1986.tif
One of many paintings covering an abandoned building at Portland and Queen.

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Photograph of a billboard put up after Gardner Myers was killed by police. July 1988. Lester Donaldson's name was added August 9 when he also was killed by the police.

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Photograph of a billboard put up after Gardner Myers was killed by police. July 1988. Lester Donaldson's name was added August 9 when he also was killed by the police.
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