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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]
Art
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]
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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]
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
Art
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
Art
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]
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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
Art
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
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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
Art
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
Art
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
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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)
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...AWM2017.346.2
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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
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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
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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)
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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...AWM2019.58.2
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Fishing spear, "Warrior kit 1"
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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