Barrack square, Selerang

Place Asia: Singapore, Changi, Selarang Barracks
Accession Number ART26475
Collection type Art
Measurement Overall: 21.7 x 26.4 cm
Object type Work on paper
Physical description brush and brown ink and wash over pencil on paper
Maker Griffin, Murray
Place made Singapore: Changi
Date made 1943
Conflict Second World War, 1939-1945
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

Description

View of makeshift kitchen built in Selerang Barrack Square, with the former British Army barracks in background. This is one of the few works in which Griffin portrayed the austerity of camp life. Although his works do not make light of the situation the men found themselves in at Changi, Griffin still created an optimistic and relatively contented vision of everyday camp life during his time as a POW.