Blood and Bone/Haemorrhage Poem

Accession Number ART91120
Collection type Art
Measurement Sheet: 137.6 x 68.2 cm
Object type Print
Physical description soft ground etching on paper
Maker Arnold, Raymond
Guerin, Luc
Place made France: Paris
Date made 1998
Conflict First World War, 1914-1918
Copyright

Item copyright: AWM Licensed copyright

Description

Soft ground etching, from a series of 10 etchings Arnold completed while completing an artist residency in Paris. The work was inspired by the artist's trip to the historic battlefields in Northern France in order to retrace the journey of his great grandfather who fought at the Western Front. The artist was walking near Le Hamel in France when he came across a ceremony to inaugurate a new memorial to Australian soldiers. This work relates to the many wreaths for the dead that were placed around the memorial that day and the connection that the artist feels to the spirits of the dead soldiers who died during the First World War.