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Aaaaaaa-tention!
Art
Maker: Jose, Ellen
In 1992 Ellen Jose (b.1951) held an exhibition in Melbourne titled "Black Diggers-Ghost Fighters" to commemorate the 50th Anniversary of the beginning of the Kokoda campaign in New Guinea, as well as ...ART29762
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Aboriginal (female)
Art
Maker: Bowles, Leslie
This architectural ‘boss’ or carved stone figure depicts the face of an Aboriginal woman. Along with its male counterpart, it is situated in the Commemorative Courtyard of the Australian War Memorial....ART93053
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Aboriginal (male)
Art
Maker: Bowles, Leslie
This architectural ‘boss’ or carved stone figure depicts the face of an Aboriginal man. Along with its female counterpart, it is situated in the Commemorative Courtyard of the Australian War Memorial....ART93066
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Advance Australia Fair (Gangurru Camouflage)
Art
Maker: Albert, Tony
In 2012 Tony Albert became the Australian War Memorial's first official war artist to deploy with the Army's Regional Force Surveillance Unit, North West Mobile Force (NORFORCE). NORFORCE is a surveil...ART94992
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Aeroplane Dancer
Art
Maker: Rory, Myra
Screenprint of a figure wearing aeroplane headdress with body paint. The work depicts a contemporary portrait of a Yanyuwa Dancer performing the Ka-wayawayama, also known as the Aeroplane Dance. The...ART96134
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Americans and Aborigines
Art
Maker: Hodgkinson, Roy
Originally titled 'Australian Aborigines rescue shot down U.S. pilot'. Depicts the story associated with the rescue of 2nd Lieutenant Clarence T Johnson, 7th Squadron, 49th Fighter group, USA. On 15 J...ART22732
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Angry Blak
Art
Maker: Albert, Tony
In 2012 Tony Albert became the Australian War Memorial's first official war artist to deploy with the Army's Regional Force Surveillance Unit, North West Mobile Force (NORFORCE). NORFORCE is a surveil...ART95007.002
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Anzac C Company
Art
Maker: Tipoti, Alick
In 2016, the Memorial appointed internationally renowned Badu Islander artist Alick Tipoti (b. 1974) as an Official War Artist to document the 51st Battalion in Far North Queensland and in August 2016...AWM2017.1430.2
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Anzac C Company
Art
Maker: Tipoti, Alick
In 2016, the Memorial appointed internationally renowned Badu Islander artist Alick Tipoti (b. 1974) as an Official War Artist to document the 51st Battalion in Far North Queensland and in August 2016...AWM2017.1430.3
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Anzac C Company
Art
Maker: Tipoti, Alick
In 2016, the Memorial appointed internationally renowned Badu Islander artist Alick Tipoti (b. 1974) as an Official War Artist to document the 51st Battalion in Far North Queensland and in August 2016...AWM2017.1430.5
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Anzac C Company
Art
Maker: Tipoti, Alick
In 2016, the Memorial appointed internationally renowned Badu Islander artist Alick Tipoti (b. 1974) as an Official War Artist to document the 51st Battalion in Far North Queensland and in August 2016...AWM2017.1430.4
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Anzac C Company
Art
Maker: Tipoti, Alick
In 2016, the Memorial appointed internationally renowned Badu Islander artist Alick Tipoti (b. 1974) as an Official War Artist to document the 51st Battalion in Far North Queensland and in August 2016...AWM2017.1430.1
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Anzac C Company
Art
Maker: Tipoti, Alick
In 2016, the Memorial appointed internationally renowned Badu Islander artist Alick Tipoti (b. 1974) as an Official War Artist to document the 51st Battalion in Far North Queensland and in August 2016...AWM2017.1430.6
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A Soldier for a Thousand Years (Gangurru Camouflage)
Art
Maker: Albert, Tony
In 2012 Tony Albert became the Australian War Memorial's first official war artist to deploy with the Army's Regional Force Surveillance Unit, North West Mobile Force (NORFORCE). NORFORCE is a surveil...ART94991
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Be Deadly - NORFORCE
Art
Maker: Albert, Tony
In 2012 Tony Albert became the Australian War Memorial's first official war artist to be attached to the Army's Regional Surveillance Force North West Mobile Unit (NORFORCE). 'I saw the recruits as ev...ART94987
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Black soldier
Art
Maker: Murray, Lesley
'Black soldier' depicts Lesley Murray's grandfather. The portrait is based on a photograph taken during the Second World War and is a private work of commemoration. It is also intended to serve as a t...ART91484
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Blue Danube [white]
Art
Maker: Scarce, Yhonnie
Contemporary glass artist Yhonnie Scarce was born in Woomera, South Australia in 1973. She belongs to the Kokatha and Nukunu peoples. Scarce is one of the few contemporary Australian artists to explor...AWM2017.929.2
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Blue Danube [white and black]
Art
Maker: Scarce, Yhonnie
Contemporary glass artist Yhonnie Scarce was born in Woomera, South Australia in 1973. She belongs to the Kokatha and Nukunu peoples. Scarce is one of the few contemporary Australian artists to explor...AWM2017.929.1
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Bombing of Darwin
Art
Maker: Wanji Wanji, Susan
Susan Wanji Wanji lives and works on Melville Island which is the largest of the two Tiwi Islands. The experience of the planes and the bombings on the island came as a shock to many Tiwi Islanders an...AWM2016.251.1
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Captain Reg Saunders
Art
Maker: Thalben-Ball, Pamela
Reginald Walter Saunders was born in 1920, in Purnim, Victoria, near the Framlingham Aboriginal Reserve. He came from a long line of soldiers. Both his father and his uncle served in the First World W...ART28159
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Coloured Diggers
Art
Maker: Albert, Tony
This four panelled painting explores the social and political legacies of Indigenous military service during the Second World War, and specifically the lack of recognition felt by many following their...ART96531
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Coloured Diggers [panel 1]
Art
Maker: Albert, Tony
Panel one of 'Coloured Diggers' a four panelled painting exploring the social and political legacies of Indigenous military service during the Second World War, and specifically the lack of recognitio...ART96531.001
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Coloured Diggers [panel 2]
Art
Maker: Albert, Tony
Panel two of 'Coloured Diggers' a four panelled painting exploring the social and political legacies of Indigenous military service during the Second World War, and specifically the lack of recognitio...ART96531.002
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Coloured Diggers [panel 3]
Art
Maker: Albert, Tony
Panel three of 'Coloured Diggers' a four panelled painting exploring the social and political legacies of Indigenous military service during the Second World War, and specifically the lack of recognit...ART96531.003
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Commemoration: Aboriginal People and Torres Strait Islanders
Art
Maker: Unknown Department of Veteran's Affairs
A poster produced by 'Australia Remembers 1945-1995' to commemorate the role of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders in the Second World War. The background image is a photograph of Aboriginal fight...ARTV09179
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"Coo-ees"
Art
Maker: Kearney, William
A recruitment banner depicting serviceman G. Harvey in a green kilt with the traditional sporran and feathered bonnet, his hands are raised above his head as he is pictured dancing mid-jig. To the lef...ARTV07501
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Darnku Country
Art
Maker: Forrest, Alec
Topographical landscape of Kaningarra country in Western Australia. The composition marks various geographical sites including waterholes and lakes. The red lines are symbolic of the sand hills, and...ART95079
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Death of Major at Nine Mile
Art
Maker: Timms, Freddie
'Death of Major at Nine Mile' was exhibited in Freddie Timms' solo exhibition at Watter’s Gallery in 1999 which explored the history of the Aboriginal rebel and bush ranger Major, who was shot dead by...AWM2019.572.1
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Educated white
Art
Maker: Albert, Tony
In 2012 Tony Albert became the Australian War Memorial's first official war artist to deploy with the Army's Regional Force Surveillance Unit, North West Mobile Force (NORFORCE). NORFORCE is a surveil...ART95007.001
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Fight or Flight #2 The Near East - Bombs and Oil (Hostile Object)
Art
Maker: Cope, Megan
In 2017 the Australian War Memorial commissioned its first female Aboriginal official war artist, Quandamooka woman Megan Cope, to travel to the Middle East to accompany various Defence units particip...AWM2019.58.2
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Flight or Fight #4 A Golden Arc (Known Object)
Art
Maker: Cope, Megan
In 2017 the Australian War Memorial commissioned its first female Aboriginal official war artist, Quandamooka woman Megan Cope, to travel to the Middle East to accompany various Defence units particip...AWM2019.58.4
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Flight or Fight #6 A Line in the Sand
Art
Maker: Cope, Megan
In 2017 the Australian War Memorial commissioned its first female Aboriginal official war artist, Quandamooka woman Megan Cope, to travel to the Middle East to accompany various Defence units particip...AWM2019.58.6
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Flight or Fight #1 Old Rivers, Deep Water (Lake Qadisiya & Lake Assad)
Art
Maker: Cope, Megan
In 2017 the Australian War Memorial commissioned its first female Aboriginal official war artist, Quandamooka woman Megan Cope, to travel to the Middle East to accompany various Defence units particip...AWM2019.58.1
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Flight or Fight #5 Radar
Art
Maker: Cope, Megan
In 2017 the Australian War Memorial commissioned its first female Aboriginal official war artist, Quandamooka woman Megan Cope, to travel to the Middle East to accompany various Defence units particip...AWM2019.58.5
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Flight or Fight #3 Silk Road Extended (Friendly Object)
Art
Maker: Cope, Megan
In 2017 the Australian War Memorial commissioned its first female Aboriginal official war artist, Quandamooka woman Megan Cope, to travel to the Middle East to accompany various Defence units particip...AWM2019.58.3
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Flight or Fight #7 The Near and Middle East with International Borders (Mt Sinjar)
Art
Maker: Cope, Megan
In 2017 the Australian War Memorial commissioned its first female Aboriginal official war artist, Quandamooka woman Megan Cope, to travel to the Middle East to accompany various Defence units particip...AWM2019.58.7
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Forever Young (Gangurru Camouflage)
Art
Maker: Albert, Tony
In 2012 Tony Albert became the Australian War Memorial's first official war artist to deploy with the Army's Regional Force Surveillance Unit, North West Mobile Force (NORFORCE). NORFORCE is a surveil...ART95005
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Forgotten Heroes
Art
Maker: Albert, Tony
In May 2012 Tony Albert was commissioned as an official war artist and spent two weeks training with the North West Mobile Force (NORFORCE). As a result of his experiences in the Northern Territory Al...ART96354
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For my children's children (Gangurru Camouflage)
Art
Maker: Albert, Tony
In 2012 Tony Albert became the Australian War Memorial's first official war artist to deploy with the Army's Regional Force Surveillance Unit, North West Mobile Force (NORFORCE). NORFORCE is a surveil...ART95003
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For our Country
Art
Maker: Boyd, Daniel Edition Office
'For our Country' recognises the military service of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. It is a space in which to commemorate their service in all conflicts in which Australia's military h...AWM2018.1108.1
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From dawn to dusk
Art
Maker: Leatham, Cassie
Drawing on longstanding cultural practice and influenced by elements of Anzac Day Ceremonies, this commemorative contemporary artwork by Cassie Leatham (Taungurung/Wurundjeri), speaks to the legacy an...AWM2019.584.1
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Gidthau Steyr Gagaian Kab [the story of the Steyr Dance]
Art
Maker: Gutchen, Kapua
In 2018 the Australian War Memorial commissioned artist and Elder Kapua Gutchen Senior (Meriam Mir) of Erub Erwer Meta (Erub Arts) on Erub (Darnley Island) in the Zenadh Kes (Torres Strait). He was as...AWM2018.1117.6
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Good to Bad
Art
Maker: Green, Jack
'In this painting I show how things have been changing over time in the Gulf country. In the top left is how things used to be with people living on country doing ceremony under the moon, being strong...ART96272
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Green Skin (Gangurru Camouflage)
Art
Maker: Albert, Tony
In 2012 Tony Albert became the Australian War Memorial's first official war artist to deploy with the Army's Regional Force Surveillance Unit, North West Mobile Force (NORFORCE). NORFORCE is a surveil...ART94999
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Greens Skins (Guyula, Manakgu, Flowers, Warrior, Wunungmurra, Cooper, Evans, Langdon, Wilton, Yunupingu, Hodgson, Gunamalmal, Ladd, Satour, James, Kris, Wanambi, McPhee, Manmurulu, Martin)
Art
Maker: Albert, Tony
NORFORCE personnel refer to each other as "green skins". A practice adopted by the ADF from the Indigenous Australian concept of different skin groups, it acts to unify the soldiers and build relation...ART94985
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Gunnawarra Aborigines, North Queensland
Art
Maker: Curtis, R Emerson
A team of five unidentified Aboriginal stockmen milling cypress pine for the construction of cattle yards on Gunnawarra cattle station, with the use of a circular saw and a tractor, near Mount Garne...ART25601
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He was only 19 (Gangurru Camouflage)
Art
Maker: Albert, Tony
In 2012 Tony Albert became the Australian War Memorial's first official war artist to deploy with the Army's Regional Force Surveillance Unit, North West Mobile Force (NORFORCE). NORFORCE is a surveil...ART94997
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Injustice – The History of the Gulf Country
Art
Maker: Green, Jack Hoosan, Stewart Nancy McDinny
"For tens of thousands of years our old people lived in, and cared for, the Country. They kept the songs, the ceremonies and the sacred places safe. They worked together under our Law to care for all ...AWM2022.1004.1
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Irvinebank Massacre
Art
Maker: Herd, Jennifer
Award winning artist Jennifer Herd (Mbarbarrum people) is among the founding members of Queensland’s Indigenous arts collective, proppaNOW, along with fellow artists and activists Richard Bell and Ver...AWM2021.414.1
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Japanese bombing Roebuck Bay, Broome
Art
Maker: Dale, Jack
Following the first Japanese attacks on Darwin on 19 February 1942 the Western Australian towns of Broome and Wyndham were attacked on 3 March. Broome was again attacked on 20 March, along with Derby....ART92418