Keyring - Oliver the Cat

Full metal keyring featuring Eileen Mayo's Oliver from 1982. A black and white cat washing itself. It is seated on a striped rug with an empty saucer in front of it. Original Image: Silk screen print, 357 x 490 mm Reference: C-127-057 No. 50, p. 115 in Margaret Taylor's listing of the collection Alexander Turnbull Library Dame Eileen Rosemary Mayo was an artist and designer who worked in almost every available medium — drawings, woodcuts, lithographs on stone and tempera, tapestry and silk screening. In addition to being a printmaker, illustrator, calligrapher and muralist, she designed coins, stamps, tapestry and posters, and wrote and illustrated eight books on natural science. She moved to New Zealand in 1962 and remained here until her death in 1994. She taught at the University of Canterbury, was a founding member of Sydney Printmakers, and was on the Print Council of New Zealand.