Yanni Stumbles - Posters and Graphics
Greedy Smith (Mental as Anything), Yanni Stumbles and Shoena White, Sydney, circa 1980. Source: Yanni Stumbles. I was once asked by a band’s agent not to do such good posters, because as soon as they were put up, they were pulled down and hung on people’s walls (Yanni Alexander 2013) Biography Yanni Stumbles (born Janni Alexander, 1952) is a graphic designer and accountant. In the early 1980s she produced numerous Sydney street posters, designed the cover for the Hoodoo Gurus breakthrough album Stoneage Romeos , was band manager of Paul Kelly and the Coloured Girls, and as an accountant worked in the Australian music and film industries for an extensive period. She studied art at East Sydney Technical College during the late 1970s and between 1980-86 produced numerous artworks and screen prints in association with, amongst others, the Lucifoil Poster Collective and the Tin Sheds Art Workshop at the University of Sydney (pers. comm., Kenyon, 1995). During this period she also taug...