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Advance Australia Fair (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...ART94992
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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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APEC in PNG
Art
Maker: Gende, Simon
'APEC in PNG' examines the Papua New Guinean view of Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) and more broadly, international diplomacy. APEC is among the multiple regional partnerships through with A...AWM2018.702.1
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Army Painting (Warramunga: Courage in Difficulties)
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Maker: Brodie, Lindy Nungarrayi
Lindy 'Nungarrayi' Brodie (Alyawarr/Kaytetye/Waramungu) completed this work in 2019 after researching the story of the tribal-class destroyer HMAS Warramunga that was named after the Waramungu, her af...AWM2019.1079.1
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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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A Thousand Stitches of Hope
Art
Maker: Belgiorno, Michelle
A Thousand Stitches of Hope was a collaborative art project involving hundreds of Australian and Japanese women in stitching 75 commemorative senninbari belts. In a series of sewing workshops, the art...AWM2018.765.1
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A Thousand Stitches of Hope [a change of heart]
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Maker: Belgiorno, Michelle
Senninbari belt hand-embroidered with a kangaroo, wattle and the Southern Cross in the centre, with a pattern of stripes leading towards each end. A Thousand Stitches of Hope was a collaborative art ...AWM2018.765.1.1
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A Thousand Stitches of Hope [blackout]
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Maker: Belgiorno, Michelle
Senninbari belt with embroidery of two houses with blacked-out windows, and a tree between them, stitched in black thread. A Thousand Stitches of Hope was a collaborative art project involving hundr...AWM2018.765.1.3
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A Thousand Stitches of Hope [it still fills me with horror!]
Art
Maker: Belgiorno, Michelle
Senninbari belt embroidered vertically with a Japanese rising sun flag, surrounded by the words 'it still fills me with horror! Dorothy age 89' in red. A Thousand Stitches of Hope was a collaborative...AWM2018.765.1.2
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A Thousand Stitches of Hope [Mrs Matsuo's poem - English]
Art
Maker: Belgiorno, Michelle
Senninbari belt embroidered vertically with the a poem by Matsue Matsuo translated into English: 'A flower raised / That he might fall / For the Emperor's / sake. / But after the storm / The garden lo...AWM2018.765.1.5
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A Thousand Stitches of Hope [Mrs Matsuo's poem - Japanese]
Art
Maker: Belgiorno, Michelle
Senninbari belt featuring a Japanese poem by Matsue Matsuo in calligraphy. A second belt, AWM2018.765.1.5, is embroidered with an English translation of the poem. It was stitched by a Japanese woman. ...AWM2018.765.1.6
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A Thousand Stitches of Hope [symbols of lives lost]
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Maker: Belgiorno, Michelle
Senninbari belt featuring embroidered gum nuts and cherry blossoms in red and black thread. A Thousand Stitches of Hope was a collaborative art project involving hundreds of Australian and Japanese ...AWM2018.765.1.7
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A Thousand Stitches of Hope [the dove]
Art
Maker: Belgiorno, Michelle
Senninbari belt embroidered horizontally with red flowers and two white doves in flight. A Thousand Stitches of Hope was a collaborative art project involving hundreds of Australian and Japanese wom...AWM2018.765.1.4
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A Thousand Stitches of Hope [words of wisdom]
Art
Maker: Belgiorno, Michelle
Senninbari belt embroidered with the profile of a submarine concealed by a pattern of criss-crossed stripes. The text 'Lest We forget / May all forgive' is embroidered with the image in red. This belt...AWM2018.765.1.8
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A Thousand Stitches of Hope [year of the tiger]
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Maker: Belgiorno, Michelle
Senninbari belt horizontally embroidered in red with a Tasmanian tiger. On each side of the tiger is a square pattern made of 90 small knots. A coin has been sewn onto the seam of each tie. A Thousan...AWM2018.765.1.9
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Be Deadly - NORFORCE
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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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Between Light and Dark
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Maker: Lombardo, Ally
As part of being exhibited for the inaugural Napier Waller Art Prize exhibition (2018), Lombardo provided the following artist statement about her work: "I joined the Army Reserves in 2002 and still ...AWM2018.1273.1
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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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Brothers in Arms
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Maker: Dang, Dacchi Dang, Dacchi
This series of five lacquer panels depicts the Australians and South Vietnamese military personnel who served alongside one another in the Vietnam War. Artist Dr Dacchi Dang began his research intervi...AWM2016.626.1.3
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Brothers in Arms
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Maker: Dang, Dacchi Dang, Dacchi
This series of five lacquer panels depicts the Australians and South Vietnamese military personnel who served alongside one another in the Vietnam War. Artist Dr Dacchi Dang began his research intervi...AWM2016.626.1.5
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Brothers in Arms
Art
Maker: Dang, Dacchi
This series of five lacquer panels depicts the Australians and South Vietnamese military personnel who served alongside one another in the Vietnam War. Artist Dr Dacchi Dang began his research intervi...AWM2016.626.1
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Brothers in Arms
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Maker: Dang, Dacchi Dang, Dacchi
This series of five lacquer panels depicts the Australians and South Vietnamese military personnel who served alongside one another in the Vietnam War. Artist Dr Dacchi Dang began his research intervi...AWM2016.626.1.2
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Brothers in Arms
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Maker: Dang, Dacchi Dang, Dacchi
This series of five lacquer panels depicts the Australians and South Vietnamese military personnel who served alongside one another in the Vietnam War. Artist Dr Dacchi Dang began his research intervi...AWM2016.626.1.1
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Brothers in Arms
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Maker: Dang, Dacchi Dang, Dacchi
This series of five lacquer panels depicts the Australians and South Vietnamese military personnel who served alongside one another in the Vietnam War. Artist Dr Dacchi Dang began his research intervi...AWM2016.626.1.4
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Burning kunai
Art
Maker: Grant, Michael
In 2008 Michael Grant 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 ...ART94841
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Canterbury Diptych (with James)
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Maker: Macleod, Euan
'Canterbury Diptych (with James)' is from a series of works that Euan Macleod made in response to a trip to the beaches of Gallipoli, in 2014, as part of the exhibition 'Your Friend the Enemy' that co...AWM2016.283.1
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Ceremony
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Maker: Jolly, David
This painting depicts the Anzac Day Dawn Service at Gallipoli in 2015. Artist David Jolly was commissioned by the Memorial to attend the centenary Anzac Day Dawn Service at Gallipoli and create a seri...AWM2016.140.7
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Clouds above Sphinx (North Beach)
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Maker: Macleod, Euan
'Clouds above Sphinx (North Beach)' is from a series of works that Euan Macleod made in response to a trip to the beaches of Gallipoli, in 2014, as part of the exhibition ' Your Friend the Enemy' that...AWM2016.283.2
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Corporal Cameron Stewart Baird VC MG
Art
Maker: Wills, Marcus
Corporal Cameron Stewart Baird VC MG was killed in action on 22 June 2013 in Afghanistan. In 2014 he was posthumously awarded the Victoria Cross for Australia, the nation’s highest honour. Corporal Ba...AWM2019.1225.1
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Daniel Keighran VC
Art
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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Dead Sun (Pacific star) Between wars (State 4)
Art
Maker: Parr, Mike
Mike Parr is a leading Australian conceptual artist whose practice considers the mediation of trauma through the human body. Parr has made numerous works that attempt to understand the consequences of...AWM2017.346.4
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Dead Sun (Pacific star) Between wars (State 1)
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Maker: Parr, Mike
Mike Parr is a leading Australian conceptual artist whose practice considers the mediation of trauma through the human body. Parr has made numerous works that attempt to understand the consequences of...AWM2017.346.1
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Dead Sun (Pacific star) Between wars (state 3)
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Maker: Parr, Mike
Mike Parr is a leading Australian conceptual artist whose practice considers the mediation of trauma through the human body. Parr has made numerous works that attempt to understand the consequences of...AWM2017.346.3
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Dead Sun (Pacific star) Between wars (State 2)
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Maker: Parr, Mike
Mike Parr is a leading Australian conceptual artist whose practice considers the mediation of trauma through the human body. Parr has made numerous works that attempt to understand the consequences of...AWM2017.346.2
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DIY
Art
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. Artist Jake Holmes(b.198...AWM2018.581.4
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Dreamer
Art
Maker: Jolly, David
This painting depicts a man sleeping with a hat over his face in the late afternoon of 24 April 2015 at Gallipoli. Artist David Jolly was commissioned by the Memorial to attend the centenary Anzac Day...AWM2016.140.2
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Educated White & Angry Blak (Gangurru Camouflage) [Diptych]
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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...ART95007
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Elastic/Borracha/Elastico (2012 Timor Leste Mobile Residency Archive)
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Maker: Jubelin, Narelle Macdonald, Fiona Maderia, Maria de Sousa, Victor The Cross Arts Projects Big Fag Press
'Elastic/Borracha/Elastico (2012 Timor Leste Mobile Residency Archive)' is a cross cultural, collaborative print folio produced by four artists, two Australian and two Timorese, who undertook a mobile...AWM2019.1117.1
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Elle-Lou Diddams
Art
Maker: Quilty, Ben
Elle-Lou Diddams was just 15 years old when she lost her father. Sergeant Blaine Diddams of the Special Air Service Regiment was killed in Afghanistan during a small arms engagement with insurgents on...AWM2016.574.3
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Elvi Wood
Art
Maker: Quilty, Ben Quilty, Ben
On 23 May 2011 Sergeant Brett Wood, 2nd Commando Regiment, was killed by an improvised explosive device in Helmand province while on his third tour of Afghanistan. Wood was a member of the Special Ope...AWM2016.574.2
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Esprit
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Maker: Dang, Dacchi
Artist Dr Dacchi Dang created this hand-drawn animation in response to the Vietnamese Australian experience of the Vietnam War. An estimated 1.5 million hand drawn marks were to create this eight minu...AWM2016.626.2
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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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Fishing spear, "Warrior kit 1"
Art
Maker: Snelgar, Andy
A Fishing spear with tips made from mulga wood and stingray barbs.AWM2016.428.1.9
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Flag
Art
Maker: Jolly, David
This painting depicts the Australian flag at half-mast at the Dawn Service at Gallipoli in 2015. Artist David Jolly was commissioned by the Memorial to attend the centenary Anzac Day Dawn Service at G...AWM2016.140.5
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Flight or Fight #4 A Golden Arc (Known Object)
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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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Formation VI
Art
Maker: Pailthorpe, Baden
Formation VI is a video work is set within the US military's simulated version of Afghanistan. Rather than using this training software to simulate violence or military encounter, instead Pailthorpe g...ART94855
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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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Gate of the Winds
Art
Maker: Black, Karen
This work depicts figures fleeing from the Syrian civil war framed by the stone archway of the 'Gate of the Winds'. The artist draws on the ancient history of Aleppo (Bab al-Hawa, the ‘Gate of the Wi...ART96879
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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)
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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...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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Heroes
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Maker: Ergun, Koken
Köken Ergun’s feature film artwork, Heroes (2018), deals with the concepts of martyrdom and heroism that have evolved around the legacy of the Gallipoli/Çanakkale campaign and responds to Turkey and A...AWM2016.863.1.1
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He was only 19 (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...ART94997
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HGU-55/P
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Maker: Pailthorpe, Baden
‘HGU-55/P’ was created by Baden Pailthorpe as part of a body of research examining the unique spatial qualities of the military. Pailthorpe describes the ‘contemporary military apparatus’ as one ‘whos...AWM2020.374.1
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'Hundstage: coming ashore, running away, hiding, moving forward'
Art
Maker: O'Connor, Derek
'Hundstage: Coming ashore, running away, hiding, moving forward' is a large-scale multi-panel work comprising 12 Time Life book covers that have been assembled in grid formation with military precisio...AWM2016.549.1
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Hundstage: Paris
Art
Maker: O'Connor, Derek
The cover imagery of 'Hundstage: Paris' is a grainy black and white photograph of German troops moving swiftly on foot through Belgium. Road signs in the background show that they are closing in on th...AWM2016.549.2
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Hundstage: Redacted image
Art
Maker: O'Connor, Derek
in 'Hundstage: Redacted image' the image has literally been so censored by bold blocks of yellow paint that all the viewer is left with is snippets of soldiers in painted enclosures and an entanglemen...AWM2016.549.3
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Improvised Explosive Devices I-IV
Art
Maker: Selenitsch, Alex
Altered books: paper, wood, tape, wire, glue. 'Improvised Explosive Device I - IV' by Alex Selenistch explores the technology of contemporary warfare. It focuses on Improvised Explosive Devices (IED...ART94658
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In memoriam
Art
Maker: See, Pamela
The work presents a contemporary response to public rituals of remembrance and the notion of commemoration in Australia. The vertical rows of paper-cut poppies form strong visual links to the RSL popp...ART96790
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It’s a wrap AWM2018 001
Art
Maker: Murray, Wendy
Wendy Murray was one of three contemporary artists commissioned to creatively explore and celebrate the Memorial’s poster collection, via the creation of new work, to engage visitors and present fresh...AWM2018.580.1
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Kaubu Sarek Kab [Bows and Arrows War 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...AWM2018.1117.4
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Killer Boomerang, Black [Warrior kit 1]
Art
Maker: Snelgar, Andy
This boomerang is known as a number 7 and used in ceremony for dancing corroboree, hunting and fighting. The designs Andy has used relate to his country.AWM2016.428.1.1
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Kukiyaw Thonar [green dancer]
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...AWM2017.1430.12
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Kulatangku angakanyini manta munu Tjukurpa [Country and Culture will be protected by spears]
Art
Maker: Baker, Alec Barney, Eric Mungi Carroll, Kunmanara (Pepai Jangala) Cooper, Taylor George, Witjiti Kaika, Willy Ken, Kunmanara (Brenton) Ken, Kunmanara (Ray) Stevens, Keith Tjalkuri, Bernard Tjilya, Thomas Ilytjari Wikilyiri, Ginger Wikilyiri, Mick Williams, Kunmanara (Mumu Mike) Young, Frank Martin, Kunmanara (Willy Muntjanti) Mungkari, Kunmanara (Peter) Pompey, Kunmanara (Jimmy)
There is a connection that Anangu [Western Desert language–speaking Aboriginal people] have with Country. It is one of the most important responsibilities looking after Country, protecting Country, an...AWM2017.912.1
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Kulatangku angakanyini manta munu Tjukurpa [Country and Culture will be protected by spears]
Art
Maker: Baker, Alec Barney, Eric Mungi Carroll, Kunmanara (Pepai Jangala) Cooper, Taylor George, Witjiti Kaika, Willy Ken, Kunmanara (Brenton) Ken, Kunmanara (Ray) Marshall, Dickie Martin, Kunmanara (Willy Muntjanti) Mungkari, Kunmanara (Peter) Stevens, Keith Tjalkuri, Bernard Tjilya, Thomas Ilytjari Wikilyiri, Ginger Wikilyiri, Mick Williams, Kunmanara (Mumu Mike) Young, Frank Pompey, Kunmanara (Jimmy)
There is a connection that Anangu [Western Desert language–speaking Aboriginal people] have with Country. It is one of the most important responsibilities looking after Country, protecting Country, an...AWM2017.912.2
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Kulata Tjuta
Art
Maker: Ken, Freddy
This painting commemorates Indigenous military service through the story of 'Kulata Tjuta' [many spears]. It is a tribute to the Anangu men who have fought to protect their country presenting a histor...AWM2016.167.2
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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]
Art
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]
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...AWM2017.1430.7
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Lagalayg 2 [warrior]
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...AWM2017.1430.8
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Leave it to them #3
Art
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
Art
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
Art
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
Art
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
Art
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
Art
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
Art
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
Art
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
Art
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
Art
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
Art
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)
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...ART95001
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Naygaiw Thonar [orange dancer]
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...AWM2017.1430.10