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Kumusi river
Art
Maker: Grant, Michael
In 2008 the artist travelled to Buna, Papua New Guinea, to research the battlefields of the Second World War. While there he joined an archaeological team searching for soldiers still missing from the...ART94840
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Kuyurudh [arrow head formation]
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Maker: Nona, Matilda
'Through this print I tell of my connection to the World War 2 stories. Through the eyes of the island women on ground, planes were seen passing above in the formation of the arrow. This formation is ...AWM2016.401.4
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Lagalayg 1 [islander]
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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...AWM2017.1430.7
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Lagalayg 2 [warrior]
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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...AWM2017.1430.8
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Leave it to them #3
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Maker: Holmes, Jake
In 2017 three contemporary artists, Alison Alder, Jake Holmes and Wendy Murray, were commissioned to make a new work in response to the Memorial's wartime poster collection. In a playful series of p...AWM2018.581.3
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Leave it to them #2
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Maker: Holmes, Jake
In 2017 three contemporary artists, Alison Alder, Jake Holmes and Wendy Murray, were commissioned to make a new work in response to the Memorial's wartime poster collection. In a playful series of p...AWM2018.581.2
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Leave it to them #1
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Maker: Holmes, Jake
In 2017 three contemporary artists, Alison Alder, Jake Holmes and Wendy Murray, were commissioned to make a new work in response to the Memorial's wartime poster collection. In a playful series of p...AWM2018.581.1
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Leesa Kwok
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Maker: Quilty, Ben Quilty, Ben
Leesa Kwok’s husband James Tanner served in East Timor in 2004, Iraq in 2006, and Afghanistan in 2007 and 2010. He now suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder. Leesa has been open about her strugg...AWM2016.574.1
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LHD1 (HMAS Canberra) flooding the dock
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Maker: Churcher, Peter
As an Official War Artist, Peter Churcher was appointed in February 2002 to spend three weeks with the Royal Australian Navy (RAN) in the Persian Gulf. He then flew to Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean...ART94606
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Life vest, Lesbos
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Maker: Quilty, Ben
In 2016, artist Ben Quilty and writer Richard Flanagan were guests of the charity World Vision and visited refugee camps in the Bekaa Valley in Lebanon. Quilty painted this work in response to his exp...AWM2017.158.1
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Line of Sight
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Maker: De Araujo, Eduardo
Eduardo De Araujo won the People's Choice Award for his work 'Line of Sight' in the 2019 Napier Waller Art Prize exhibition, he provided the following artist statement about his work: "Capturing the ...AWM2019.1193.1
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Lost Artists
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Maker: Smith, Bob and Roberta
In 2014 the Imperial War Museum commissioned a series of contemporary artists to create artworks to commemorate the Centenary of the First World War. Acclaimed British artist Patrick Brill (b.1963) be...AWM2017.219.1
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Maralinga Bomb
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Maker: Karrika, Belle Davidson
Following on from the Korean War, the British nuclear weapons testing program was the most significant military event in Australia during the Cold War. Twelve atomic weapons were detonated in Australi...AWM2016.581.1
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Melagowam Gijam Daam Yurunya (This is our Gija Country)
Art
Maker: Nodea, Mark
As part of being exhibited in the 2019 Napier Waller Art Prize exhibition, Mark Nodea (Gija), provided the following artist statement about his work: "It was in the 1990s when I joined NORFORCE. We h...AWM2019.1192.1
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Messanger bird
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Maker: Puruntatameri, Patrick Freddy
Patrick Freddy Puruntatameri is a renowned Tiwi sculptor. He was born in 1973 on Melville Island, the larger of the two Tiwi islands, situated off the coast north of Darwin. As well as making art Patr...AWM2016.328.2
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Moonlight
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Maker: Green, Jack
'When I was working in Doomadgee there was a policeman who asked us to do some painting, and he wanted a painting of the plane crash. At that time I didn't know where that plane crashed the only time ...ART96273
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Mothers children brothers sisters torn apart (Gangurru Camouflage)
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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...ART95001
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Naygaiw Thonar [orange dancer]
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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...AWM2017.1430.10
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Ngaw Athen Thonarnu [during my grandfathers time]
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Maker: Gaidan, Aiona Tala
'Ngaw Athen Thonarnu means during my grandfathers time. The seven stars across the top of the print represents myself and my six siblings. In the centre I show a soldier kneeling before a cross paying...AWM2016.401.5