Corporal Alicia Carr, Darwin

Accession Number ART91132
Collection type Art
Measurement Overall: 35 x 25.2 cm
Object type Work on paper
Physical description gouache on paper
Maker Sharpe, Wendy Elizabeth
Place made Australia: Northern Territory, Darwin
Date made 1999
Conflict East Timor, 1999-2013
Copyright Item copyright: © Australian War Memorial
Creative Commons License This item is licensed under CC BY-NC
Description

Nude portrait of Corporal Alicia Carr wearing a hat. 'I met Alicia in the mess at Robertson Barracks, Darwin. The first time I saw her she was pretending to hit a large male soldier and laughing vivaciously. She later told me that her boyfriend (also in the army) was in East Timor. He'd asked for a photo of her. She thought she'd like to send him a nude drawing instead. We agreed it would be fun to pose her in her army boots and hat.' Wendy Sharpe, conversation with Betty Snowden, 29 May 2000.

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