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A plea for peace keepers
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Maker: Gittoes, George Noel
A plea for peace keepers depicts Major Rik Modderman engaged in conversation and negotiations with Palestinian elders in Israel. Major Modderman is dressed in the uniform and blue beret of a United Na...ART91481
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Army birthday touch football match
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Maker: Gittoes, George Noel
Crowd of figures playing football on a US Helipad. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program 2013ART94847
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Australian signaller with MINURSO meeting Polisario commander
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Maker: Gittoes, George Noel
Portrait of two men, one in uniform, shaking hands. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program 2013ART94844
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Calling In
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Maker: Gittoes, George Noel
Four Afghan Northern Alliance soldiers with an American Special Forces. The American, wearing a baseball cap, uses a radio to call in airstrikes. Gittoes' notes of this work include: 'Explosions were ...ART91935
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Flying with Regie, Western Sahara 1994
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Maker: Gittoes, George Noel
This drawing depicts the inside view of soldiers from the U.S. Special forces sitting in a Russian plane. Several soldiers in the crowded aircraft are identified as Corp Goodwin, American Ordnance Dem...ART94600
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Grain distribution
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Maker: Gittoes, George Noel
Study of a soldier surrounded by women waiting in queues for grain rations. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program 2013ART94851
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Hounds
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Maker: Gittoes, George Noel Studio One: Print making workshop
Three dogs tearing apart an oil covered seabird. Gittoes wrote of this work: 'Hounds refers to the old symbol the dogs of war. The combatants in this conflict, symbolised by the dogs, are not tearing ...ART29720
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Macka McLean, signaller
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Maker: Gittoes, George Noel
Depicts a portrait of Macka McLean, a signaller with the Australian peacekeepers, United Nations Transitional Authority (UNTAC) in Cambodia in 1993. He is depicted surrounded by the signalling and com...ART90116
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Masood
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Maker: Gittoes, George Noel
This drawing was completed in the town of Gulbahar, 89kms from Kabul. It depicts a young Afghan man, Iqbar, seated in front of a shop selling videos and soft porn magazines. To the right of him is t...ART91938
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Mother and child
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Maker: Gittoes, George Noel Studio One: Print making workshop
A woman cradling a child on the shoreline, while bent rods surround her, the ghost of a dog leaps over her and United Nations ships sail in the Gulf . Gittoes wrote of this image: 'One of the most hea...ART29721
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New boots and uniforms for Somali civil authority police
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Maker: Gittoes, George Noel
Scene of men in uniform handing out boots to a line of figures. Two men with cameras are filming and taking pictures of the event. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program...ART94849
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Nigel loading tracers
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Maker: Gittoes, George Noel
Depicts Private Nigel Ellerton, RAR, 1st Battalion, United Nations Transitional Authority (UNTAC) loading tracers for rifles (bullets used to assist in aiming), while seated on a matress on the floor ...ART90115
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Night sorting of mail at headquarters Mogadishu
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Maker: Gittoes, George Noel
Scene of men and women in uniform sifting through mail bags. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program 2013ART94848
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Oil slick
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Maker: Gittoes, George Noel Studio One: Print making workshop
A seabird covered in oil, with burning oil rigs in the background. Gittoes wrote: 'This image was a response to the television footage of the environmental damage when Iraq allowed oil to spill into t...ART29722
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Ordnance, Somalia 1993
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Maker: Gittoes, George Noel
This drawing depicts a Somali women on her hands and knees on stoney ground wearing a head scarf. She is collecting firewood right next to unexploded ordnance which are to be detonated by Australian s...ART94599
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Out of the shitter into...
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Maker: Gittoes, George Noel
Depicts a man pulled out of a latrine he had crawled into during the genocide in Rwanda in 1995. He is depicted lying on the ground in a paralysed manner. Of this work Gittoes' noted; This morning the...ART90440
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Pale Rider 3
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Maker: Gittoes, George Noel
Depicts a member of the American Special Forces riding a horse at a buzkashi game. Buzkashi is a violent equestrian game, in which teams of riders on horseback contest to place a headless calf in one ...ART91937
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Pass
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Maker: Gittoes, George Noel
A young Mujahideen boy holding a rifle, with a Soviet tank on the top of his head. Behind him is a snow covered landscape and a tunnel. Beside him are a number of green flags in the snow, indicating g...ART91940
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Paul Stanton at Kibeho, April 1995, Rwanda
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Maker: Gittoes, George Noel
George Gittoes is an Australian artist who is best known for his work as a painter, printmaker and photojournalist. For over three decades his paintings, drawings and films have commented on internati...ART94376
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Peacekeeping Cambodia
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Maker: Gittoes, George Noel
Soldier showing respect at Bayon, Cambodia. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program 2013ART94843
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Shiny new blade
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Maker: Gittoes, George Noel
George Gittoes made this picture of two young men in South Lebanon two days after road bombs killed eight pro-Israeli Lebanese Officers and wounded 14 people. One of the young men brandishes a knife p...ART94601
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Six of diamonds
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Maker: Gittoes, George Noel
Depicts a young Rwandan boy, Luke, dressed in several layers of found clothes, dealing cards.ART90438
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The guilty one
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Maker: Gittoes, George Noel
Australian UN soldiers escort a woman and her child away from a dangerous confrontation with Tutsi-dominated Rwanda Patriotic Army (RPA) soldiers. The RPA insisted she was guilty of supporting the Hut...ART90436
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The helicopter features but no room for Australian soldiers
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Maker: Gittoes, George Noel
Woman with child on her hip observing a helicopter, in the background two soldiers carry a box. George Gittoes was in Cambodia from 18 May to 3 July 1993. This work has most likely been created in si...ART94850
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The preacher
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Maker: Gittoes, George Noel
Depicts a preacher, with arms raised upwards, holding a bible at a refugee camp in Rwanda. Gittoes' noted of this work; 'On the morning of 24th April a rumour spread through the Hutu refugees in the q...ART90435
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The Road to Gulbahar
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Maker: Gittoes, George Noel
Depicts a man and a boy on a motorbike, holding a goat. Behind them is a Soviet tank and a stony landscape.ART91936
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The wound
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Maker: Gittoes, George Noel
Portrait of a the head of a man lying on a pillow. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program 2013ART94845
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Unloading, Mogadishu
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Maker: Gittoes, George Noel
Depicts three Australian peacekeepers, in the foreground, unloading boxes and supplies from a Navy (?) ship at Mogadishu. In the background is the ship and a number of Somali people assisting in the ...ART90109
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Untitled [Road patrol 1]
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Maker: Gittoes, George Noel
Soldier in uniform with rifle. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program 2013ART94852
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Untitled [Road patrol 2, out from Baidoa]
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Maker: Gittoes, George Noel
Study of three soldiers holding rifles. George Gittoes was in Somalia in late February 1993, where he lived and worked with the Australian soldiers, first in Mogadishu and then predominantly in Baido...ART94853
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Verification
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Maker: Gittoes, George Noel
Scene of two figures tending to a wounded man. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program 2013ART94846
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What's left?
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Maker: Gittoes, George Noel Griffith Print Workshop
The main figure in this image is 27-year-old Ghuncha, a Pakistani land mine victim and widowed mother of five. In the background hovers Ghuncha's eldest daughter, 8-year-old Soltan. Gittoes brings int...ART96798