Street scene with burnt-out courthouse, Gleno

Place Asia: Timor-Leste, Gleno
Accession Number ART93991
Collection type Art
Measurement Overall: 57 x 76.7 cm
Object type Print
Physical description oil and coloured pencil on paper
Maker Cattapan, Jon
Place made Australia: Victoria, Melbourne
Date made 2008
Conflict East Timor, 1999-2013
Copyright Item copyright: © Australian War Memorial
Creative Commons License This item is licensed under CC BY-NC
Description

"...I had no idea that the infrastructure was just so completely wrecked and that there's a lot of work to be done there. ... I was expecting that there would still be some of the damage of the post-occupation stuff that happened as Indonesia was pulling out, that a lot of damage was done and there's some very very real trauma that took place there which is...harrowing when you hear about some of the things that took place. But what I hadn't really accounted for was that ten years later there's still so much visibility of this wrecked infrastructure. That public building after public building...still stands as a burnt out shell...I found that to be quite a shock." Jon Cattapan, AWM interview 8 August 2008

The burnt out courthouse that is depicted in this work is now used as a slaughterhouse.