Mothership

Depicts images of rubbings taken from multiple plaques in the War Memorial's grounds, related to Second World War RAAF and RAN Battalions and Units together with an ethereal image of a jellyfish, in the centre of the print. The print was produced collaboratively between Marshall Weber and Dianne Fogwell at the Australian National University. Marshall Weber (b.1960) grew up in the United States during the Vietnam War and has maintained a lifelong interest in war and its societal and environmental impact. His work is influenced, both aesthetically and politically by a diverse range of historical and contemporary artists and writers including Goya, Hannah Hoch, Bertold Brecht and Joseph Beuys. In February 2006 he was a keynote speaker in Australia at the Third International Artists Book Forum and more recently created a series of art works exploring the 'ethics of military culture by re-assembling [the] texts and aesthetics of national war memorials and monuments using collage and frottage'.