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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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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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Angry Blak
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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...ART95007.002
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Anzac C Company
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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...AWM2017.1430.2
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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
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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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Black soldier
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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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Captain Reg Saunders
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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
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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]
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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]
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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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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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Forever Young (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...ART95005
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Forgotten Heroes
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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)
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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...ART95003
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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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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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Joe Mye
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Maker: Collins, James
Portrait of Burma Thailand Railway prisoner of war Joe Mye QX13541. The artist, Jim Collins, was a member of A Force, one of the work parties forced to construct the Burma-Thailand Railway. By the beg...ART28403.076
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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]
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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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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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Lest we forget...our Aboriginal diggers too
Art
Maker: Leahy, Sean
Published on Anzac Day 1991 this cartoon depicts a rifle stuck into the ground as though it is marking the grave of a dead soldier. The shadow cast by the rifle appears in the shape of a boomerang. ...ART90081
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Long winding trail
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Maker: Jose, Ellen
In keeping with Ellen Jose's tendency to combine exploration of the personal with wider external issues, 'Long winding trail' is both an intimate homage to her father and his soldier persona, and a re...ART29763
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Memoir
Art
Maker: Macnamara, Shirley
Inspired by the commemorative events held to mark the 100th anniversary of the Gallipoli campaign, "Memoir" commemorates the service of Indigenous soldiers who fought overseas and were never recognise...ART96854
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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
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Nganampa Manta (our Country)
Art
Maker: Fielding, Robert Punnagka
This drawing by Robert Fielding was made in response to the Memorial's 2017 commission with the APY Lands Art Centre Collective and tells the story of Aboriginal Australians defending Country. Using m...AWM2018.594.1
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NORFORCE
Art
Maker: Nodea, Gabriel
Gabriel Nodea was a member of the Australian Army's North West Regional Surveillance Force (NORFORCE) from 1990 to 2005. He is an important knowledge-holder of Gija language and culture, a talented ar...AWM2016.546.1
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Norforce Campsite, Murganella
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Maker: Robertson, Christian Clare
Norforce Campsite, Murganella depicts the simple conditions of a camp set occupied by NORFORCE soldiers in the Northern Territory.ART91479
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not titled [Poppies]
Art
Maker: Fielding, Robert Punnagka
This work was acquired for the Memorial's Art collection alongside the launch of 'Kulatangku angakanyini manta munu Tjukurpa [Country and Culture will be protected by spears]', a painting by 19 senior...AWM2017.1350.1
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Private Arthur 'Darky' Butler
Art
Maker: Fletcher, Bruce
Portrait of 18195 Private Arthur Wallace 'Darky' Butler, an Aboriginal mortar platoon signaller with Support Company, 7th Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (7 RAR), carrying a L1 A1 SLR (Self L...ART40563
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Private, Gowrie House
Art
Maker: Bowen, Stella
Portrait of an Australian infantry soldier, identified by the artist in her correspondence with the Australian War Memorial as 'Pte (Name lost) Gowrie House 11/6'. Despite being one of the Memorial's ...ART26277
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Private Samuel Fejo
Art
Maker: Murch, Arthur
D11 Gunner Samuel Fejo, CMF, Fixed Defences Citizen Military Forces, Darwin. Fejo was a gunner in the Fixed Defences Citizen Military Forces, Darwin, and an Aboriginal member of the Militia. While in ...ART29415
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Reach out and touch - distance and time
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 ...ART90724
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Sageraw Thonar [yellow 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...AWM2017.1430.9
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Sagim Beberbeber [Hardships]
Art
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...AWM2018.1117.1
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Target (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...ART94998
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There's many lost but tell me who has won [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...ART94994
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The Writing's on the wall (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...ART95002
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Time marches on
Art
Maker: Bancroft, Bronwyn
The painting is a mixed media portrait of the artist's father Owen Bancroft marching with his fellow servicemen in 1985. The work is both an intimate homage to family as well as a broader commentary o...ART94626
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Torres Strait Lightening Fighter
Art
Maker: Jose, Ellen
'Torres Strait Lightening Fighter' was conceived as a triptych in series by Ellen Jose titled 'Black Digger Ghost Fighter'. It is both a commemorative portrait of her father's Pte "Gorie" Jose's wart...ART96195
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Torres Strait Light Infantry Battalion
Art
Maker: Ware, Rosie
Rosie Ware (born 1959) is a Torres Strait Islander (TSI) artist based on Waiben (Thursday) Island. An award winning textile artist she works primarily in lino-block, hand printed fabrics that combine ...ART96820
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Trooper James Hubbard, rough rider, Australian Remount Squadron
Art
Maker: Lambert, George
Depicts a drawing of trooper with a moustache, slouch hat, and calf length riding boots,on a horse. The rider holds the reins in his left hand and has his right hand on his left wrist. The horse is st...ART02729
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Two Worlds Collide (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...ART94990
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Universal Soldier (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...ART95006
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Unknown Soldier (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...ART94996
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Untitled from the 'Anzac Centenary Print Portfolio'
Art
Maker: Boyd, Daniel
Daniel Boyd’s print for the Anzac Centenary Print Portfolio has a direct relationship to his other work in that it adopts a strategy of first appropriating historical images and then overlaying them w...ART96846.008
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Wait-a-while
Art
Maker: Jose, Ellen
'Wait-a-while' is a commemorative portrait tracing the wartime experience of Pte "Gorie" Phillipe Jose. It grapples with the psychological impact of war, and the lack of recognition received by Pte Jo...ART96179
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War Memorial (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...ART94995
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We are all heroes
Art
Maker: Albert, Tony
'We are all heroes' is a re-worked, found black velvet painting which explores the historical representation of Indigenous Australians through kitsch, mass produced tourist memorabilia and souvenirs. ...ART94988
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We can be heroes just for one day (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...ART95004
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We fight with guns and spears (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...ART95000
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What are we fighting for? (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...ART94993
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White Australia has a Blak History [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...ART94989
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Winston Driving, Coburg Peninsula
Art
Maker: Robertson, Christian Clare
Upper body of a NORFORCE member driving a jeep along the sands of the Coburg peninsula, Northern Territory.Clare Robertson produced NORFORCE pastels as a result of a field trip with Norforce, Darwin S...ART91480
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Zeyaw Thonar [red 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...AWM2017.1430.11