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[Afghanistan 2009]
Art
Maker: Thirkill, Julian
Green cloth bound sketchbook containing six drawings from Major Julian Thirkill when deployed to Afghanistan in 2009 to undertake operations as part of the Mentoring and Reconstruction Task Force (MRT...ART94173.003
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[Afghanistan 2009]
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Maker: Thirkill, Julian Thirkill, Julian Thirkill, Julian
Green cloth bound sketchbook containing six drawings from Major Julian Thirkill when deployed to Afghanistan in 2009 to undertake operations as part of the Mentoring and Reconstruction Task Force (MRT...ART94173
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[Afghanistan 2009]
Art
Maker: Thirkill, Julian
Green cloth bound sketchbook containing six drawings from Major Julian Thirkill when deployed to Afghanistan in 2009 to undertake operations as part of the Mentoring and Reconstruction Task Force (MRT...ART94173.005
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[Afghanistan 2009]
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Maker: Thirkill, Julian
Green cloth bound sketchbook containing six drawings from Major Julian Thirkill when deployed to Afghanistan in 2009 to undertake operations as part of the Mentoring and Reconstruction Task Force (MRT...ART94173.002
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[Afghanistan 2009- Afghan local government officials]
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Maker: Thirkill, Julian
Green cloth bound sketchbook containing six drawings from Major Julian Thirkill when deployed to Afghanistan in 2009 to undertake operations as part of the Mentoring and Reconstruction Task Force (MRT...ART94173.006
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[Afghanistan 2009- Repatriation ceremony]
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Maker: Thirkill, Julian
Green cloth bound sketchbook containing six drawings from Major Julian Thirkill when deployed to Afghanistan in 2009 to undertake operations as part of the Mentoring and Reconstruction Task Force (MRT...ART94173.004
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Afghan war rug (Baluchi)
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Maker: Unknown
A large Afghan war rug (Baluchi) depicting a number of military motifs, including tanks, gun carriers, grenades, armoured vehicles, as well as Baluchi geometric medallions and plant forms. The central...ART91932
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Afghan war rug ('classic red' war rug)
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Maker: Unknown
The 'classic red war rug' is a stylistically intricate rug, with a complex and dense design layout, using rich red, orange and green colours. The rug is dominated by images of Soviet weaponry, especia...ART92730
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Afghan war rug (September 11th war rug)
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Maker: Unknown
The 'September 11th' war rug is a very recent example of a rug reflecting contemporary events. It depicts a map of Afghanistan, with a superimposed world globe on top of the map, a representation of a...ART92729
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American B-52 bombers returning from, and arming for sorties into Afghanistan, Diego Garcia
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Maker: Churcher, Peter
American B-52 bombers parked on the runway. Peter Churcher recalled, "Whenever I caught the bus to Tent City I would pass the main American flight line where all the B-52 bombers were making sorties i...ART91775
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Australia, special forces (everywhere, current), Aust flag 2010
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Maker: eX de Medici
An Australian Special Forces cutaway helmet, manufactured by South African company, Global Armour. This watercolour was drawn in Canberra from a helmet worn by a member of the Australian Special Forc...ART94355
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Australia, special forces (everywhere, current), digicam 2010
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Maker: eX de Medici
An Australian Special Forces cutaway helmet with the digital camouflage pattern of the Australian Defence Force. This type of helmet is manufactured by South African company, Global Armour. This wat...ART94369
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Australia, special forces (everywhere, current), veg pattern 2007, 2010
Art
Maker: eX de Medici
An Australian Special Forces cutaway helmet with a vegetation camouflage pattern. This type of helmet is manufactured by South African company, Global Armour. This watercolour was drawn in Canberra ...ART94370
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Crowd outside Christian monastery (Baghdad)
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Maker: Ashburn, Elizabeth
Depicts a crowd of Iraqi men standing in front of a smouldering building in Baghdad. The painting, as a small vignette, is encircled by a red, pale blue and dark blue decorative frame derived from and...ART92784
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Daniel Keighran VC
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Maker: Ford, Juan
Corporal Daniel Keighran deployed to Afghanistan in February 2010 with the 6th Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment. On 24 August 2010, Corporal Keighran was part of a combined Australian and Afghan p...AWM2018.59.1
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Death smackdown
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Maker: Dickie, Greg
Crayon artwork on bed sheet depicting an Australian Medic holding a staff (or rod) with two entwined snakes and wings. "Death Smackdown" was produced by Sgt Greg Dickie while on one of his first deplo...ART94612
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EDD Sarbi in Afghanistan
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Maker: Brown, Lyndell and Green, Charles
Sarbi was an explosive detection dog (EDD) trained to detect improvised explosive devices. She went missing when a joint US, Australian and Afghan vehicle convoy in Afghanistan was ambushed by the Tal...ART94166
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Elevation of the senses
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Maker: Coates, Ewen
This sculpture commemorates the vital role and contribution of Explosive Detection Dogs and their handlers in war. The tunnel through the base of the sculpture alludes to the rigorous training underta...ART96850
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German soldier in crouching position with rifle
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Maker: Cousins, Marcel
Cousins' 'German soldier' series of sculptures comments on the cliched nature of images of war through the use of toy soldiers. He offers a critique of both past and present conflicts in which Austral...ART94981
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German soldier running in position with rifle
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Maker: Cousins, Marcel
Cousins' 'German soldier' series of sculptures comments on the cliched nature of images of war through the use of toy soldiers. He offers a critique of both past and present conflicts in which Austral...ART94982
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German soldier with a grenade
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Maker: Cousins, Marcel
Cousins' 'German soldier' series of sculptures comments on the cliched nature of images of war through the use of toy soldiers. He offers a critique of both past and present conflicts in which Austral...ART94983
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Heal Thyself
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Maker: Pronk, Benjamin Alexander
As part of being exhibited for the inaugural Napier Waller Art Prize exhibition (2018), Pronk provided the following artist statement about his work: "My brother was a special forces doctor who compl...AWM2018.1264.1
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History painting: outpost, Helmand province, Afghanistan
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Maker: Brown, Lyndell Green, Charles
This painting presents a view through the windscreen of an Australian Chinook helicopter, looking out onto a hostile landscape of rubble, huts and shipping containers. The work focuses on an extreme a...ART93319
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Holy Night (PB Anar Juy)
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Maker: Delaney, Stephen
Depicts a night scene where Australian sentry and parts of the patrol base were silhouetted by an American fired artillery illumination round from Camp Hadrian. There was a wooden cross, left by the F...ART96262
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Inertia # 3
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Maker: Jamin (Benjamin Kluss)
Depicts soldiers and a tank silhoutted against a voluminous 'fog of war', with a serence and enveloping light filtering through the work. The work reprsents the ineretia of modern war, a continuous st...ART96036
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Iraqi man (Abu Ghraib prison)
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Maker: Ashburn, Elizabeth
Depicts the now infamous image of a cloaked and hooded Iraqi prisoner tortured by American soldiers in Abu Ghraib, Iraq. The painting, as a small vignette, is encircled by a pale and dark blue and gol...ART92783
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Iraqi women (Najaf)
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Maker: Ashburn, Elizabeth
Depicts a group of Iraqi women, in the city of Najaf, wailing and grieving in a room below images of lost men. The painting, as a small vignette, is encircled by a red, black and gold decorative fram...ART92782
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Lieutenant Colonel Rowan Tink, SAS
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Maker: Churcher, Peter
This is a commissioned portrait of Lieutenant Colonel Rowan Tink, SAS in Afghanistan. In July 2002 Tink was awarded a Bronze Star by the US Government for his leadership role in eliminating al-Qa'ida ...ART91926
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Looking west from rooftop of SAS compound sentry point, Bagram, Afghanistan
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Maker: Churcher, Peter
Landscape view across Afghanistan, showing wreckage and refuse from the Russian/Afghan war in the foreground, with local people fossicking through the rubbish. Peter Churcher recalled, "It's what you ...ART91911
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Major Bram Connolly
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Maker: Brooks, Sam
Informal portrait of Major Bram Connolly in Afghanistan. In 2010, Connolly was on his second deployment to Afghanistan on a Special Forces mission in charge of the Yankee Alpha Platoon where he demons...AWM2018.578.1
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Memory Jug - Afghanistan
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Maker: Duncan, Natalie
As part of being exhibited for the inaugural Napier Waller Art Prize exhibition (2018), Duncan provided the following artist statement about her work: "Watching the boys go outside the wire for days ...AWM2018.1267.1
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Mirabad
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Maker: Johnston, Christopher
As part of being exhibited for the inaugural Napier Waller Art Prize exhibition (2018), Johnston provided the following artist statement about his work: "Mirabad is a notorious and ancient river vall...AWM2018.1271.1.1
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not titled [Portrait of a member of AUSTINT, Afghanistan]
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Maker: Myers, Campbell
Depicts a front-on portrait of a member of the Australian Intelligence Corps in Afghanistan. Campbell Myers has worked as a MultiMedia Technician since 2008 with the Royal Australian Engineers (RAE). ...ART96216.005
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Off to War (Australian Infantrymen)
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Maker: Delaney, Stephen
Depicts the interior of a Bushmaster with sleeping Australian soldiers strapped to their seats, with the lower half of the vehicle sentry visible in the back. As the artist noted; 'Based on my observa...ART96260
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Ramp ceremony for the five soldiers killed in one night
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Maker: Myers, Campbell
Depicts a row of soldiers standing observing the caskets of the five Australian soldiers killed in one night in Afghanistan being loaded into the body of a Hercules plane on a runway. Campbell Myers h...ART96215.007
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SAS soldier in the village of Bagram
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Maker: Churcher, Peter
An SAS soldier is walking in the village of Bagram. Peter Churcher recalled, "Just outside the main gate of the air-base is the village of Bagram, in which the locals live. I was eager to go into the ...ART91916
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Self Portrait
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Maker: Dawson, Nicholas
As part of being exhibited for the inaugural Napier Waller Art Prize exhibition (2018), Dawson provided the following artist statement about his work: "I enjoy the process of forging, moving, and cre...AWM2018.1269.1
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Silence
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Maker: Matwiejew, Magda
Depicts a woman, wearing a burqa, set against a shadowy, unidentified background with mountains and water. With an atmosphere of vagueness and transition, the image suggests that the woman is part of ...ART93012
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Soviet Exodus war rug
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Maker: Unknown
The rug is a 'Soviet Exodus' war rug, depicting images of stylised Soviet tanks leaving along two roads coming out of the north of a map of Afghanistan, evidence of the Soviets' 'route of retreat'. 'S...ART92682
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Street scene (soldiers in Baghdad)
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Maker: Ashburn, Elizabeth
Depicts two uniformed soldiers in Iraq carrying a dead body through the streets of Baghdad. The painting, as a small vignette, is encircled by a black, blue and gold decorative frame derived from and ...ART92781
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Study for the Drone Stripped Bare of all its Brides
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Maker: Goodwin, Richard
Depicts a scale model of a drone above an intricate background of CIA documents related to surveillance, architectural models, scientific formulae and the Twin Towers. The Royal Australian Air force h...ART96192
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The other side of the wire, Uruzgan Province, Afghanistan
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Maker: Brown, Lyndell Green, Charles
Afghanistan, mountain range, artillery practice, firing range near base perimeter.ART93300
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The 'piss-a-phone', outside bombed building, Bagram
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Maker: Churcher, Peter
The shower and toilet block inside the SAS compound, with an SAS soldier using the 'piss-a-phone', an improvised urinal. Peter Churcher recalled, "The 'piss-a-phone' is outside the bombed building in ...ART91924
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The Russian Hat
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Maker: Gittoes, George Noel
Depicts the head of an Afghan buzkashi player wearing the padded leather helmet of a former Soviet captain. In buzkashi, a violent equestrian game, team captains are distinguished by their Russian ca...ART91939
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Three SAS guys sitting in their vehicle, Australian compound, Bagram, Afghanistan
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Maker: Churcher, Peter
Three SAS soldiers sitting in their vehicle. There is a grenade gun on top of the vehicle. Peter Churcher recalled, "These vehicles, of which there were about ten, were one of the important tools of t...ART91921
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Transition
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Maker: Rohse, Craig
As part of being exhibited for the inaugural Napier Waller Art Prize exhibition (2018), Rohse provided the following artist statement about his work: "My self-portrait takes a critical view of four s...AWM2018.1265.1
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Trooper Daniel Westcott, after Afghanistan
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Maker: Quilty, Ben
Artist Ben Quilty created 'Trooper Daniel Westcott, after Afghanistan' during his commission as an official war artist to Afghanistan in 2011. He initially painted from photographs he had taken in Afg...AWM2017.186.1
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Trooper M, Special Forces, Tarin Kowt
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Maker: Quilty, Ben
During his deployment as official war artist in Afghanistan in 2011 Quilty spent time sitting with members of the Special Forces capturing their portraits: "I started doing drawings of the soldiers, ...ART94504
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Two SAS with Simpson the donkey in the Australian compound, Bagram, Afghanistan
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Maker: Churcher, Peter
Two SAS with Simpson the donkey, in the Australian compound, Bagram. Peter Churcher recalled, "The SAS squadron had four donkeys that they purchased from the locals. The donkeys proved to be invaluabl...ART91913
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Wrecked Russian aircraft, Bagram, Afghanistan
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Maker: Churcher, Peter
Painting of a wrecked Russian Aircraft in Bagram. Peter Churcher recalled, "'These wrecks are a vestige from the Russian/Afghan war (Bagram was then a Russian air-base) - They have been piled in one p...ART91920