This Woman is Not a Car: feminist funk art of the Holden era

Artist Margaret Dodd’s early ‘funk ceramic’ Holdens were a response to the often bleak suburban life many women in Adelaide experienced in the 1970s. More than 40 years later, she still finds inspiration in the iconic car.

Book extract: The Death of Holden

Jeff Jurgens spent more than two decades working at the Holden factory at Elizabeth until uncertainty about the future of the car industry encouraged him to take a redundancy package. But even today, seven years later, it’s as if he never left …