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  • Collection: Rocky Dobey Portfolio

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A silkscreen poster made in the summer of 1987 to fund the Toronto Survival Gathering.

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Photograph of a painting on reflection office tower glass that was then mounted to an abandoned building on Queen Street near John.

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Painting installed on an abandoned building during the 1984 political election.

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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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One of many paintings covering an abandoned building at Portland and Queen.

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

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This was bolted to a building on Ryerson Avenue in Toronto.

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

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

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

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

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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.

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This was a plaque that was chained to a street post on Queen Street.

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

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

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A drug overdose memorial plaque bolted to a street pole.

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A painted book bolted to a street pole near the Don Jail in Toronto.
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