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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!]
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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]
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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]
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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]
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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]
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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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Educated White & Angry Blak (Gangurru Camouflage) [Diptych]
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
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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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Formation VI
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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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Heroes
Art
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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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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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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No one sees what I see [NORFORCE recruitment poster]
Art
Maker: Australian Defence Force
One of a series of recruitment posters for NORFORCE in 2013 under the campaign slogan 'Modern Warrior, Traditional Values'.ARTV10333
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No one sees what I see [NORFORCE recruitment poster]
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Maker: Australian Defence Force
One of a series of recruitment posters for NORFORCE in 2013 under the campaign slogan 'Modern Warrior, Traditional Values'.ARTV10332
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No one sees what I see [NORFORCE recruitment poster]
Art
Maker: Australian Defence Force
One of a series of recruitment posters for NORFORCE in 2013 under the campaign slogan 'Modern Warrior, Traditional Values'.ARTV10330
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No one sees what I see [NORFORCE recruitment poster sea patrol]
Art
Maker: Australian Defence Force
One of a series of recruitment posters for NORFORCE in 2013 under the campaign slogan 'Modern Warrior, Traditional Values'.ARTV10331
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not titled [Spear]
Art
Maker: Young, Frank
This spear was presented to Director Brendon Nelson and Ryan Johnston on the 16th of November, 2017 at the launch for the APY Lands Art Collective painting 'Kulatangku angakanyini manta munu Tjukurpa ...AWM2017.1351.2
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not titled [Spear]
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Maker: Young, Frank
This spear was presented to Director Dr Brendon Nelson and Ryan Johnston, Head of Art, on the 16th of November, 2017 at the launch for the APY Lands Art Collective painting 'Kulatangku angakanyini man...AWM2017.1351.1
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Serving / Sacrificing / Commongood / Need
Art
Maker: Oliphant, Ruth
Maquette of fused glass featuring a woman surrounded by feathers, with the words 'serving, sacrificing, commongood, need' above. This maquette was made to model the window commissioned by the War Wido...ART96387
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Sketchbook containing 80 pages of drawings, compositions and notes relating to NORFORCE
Art
Maker: Albert, Tony
Official war artist Tony Albert used this sketchbook while on deployment to NORFORCE in May 2012. It is a small black leather sketchbook of 40 leaves, 80 pages and 65 compositions. It is secured with ...ART94986
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The Fall
Art
Maker: Tiatia, Angela
'The Fall' provides a contemporary illustration and insight into Singapore's and Australia's shared wartime experience during the Second World War and its complex legacies for both nations. It was dev...AWM2018.207.1
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Very Few Good Men
Art
Maker: Pailthorpe, Baden Pailthorpe, Baden
In 'Very Few Good Men' Baden Pailthorpe appropriates footage from a classic military film and pushes it to the limits of abstraction. Drawing on a traditional Marine Corps drill, it becomes the subjec...ART94854