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Accession Number | ART91791 |
Collection type | Art |
Measurement | Overall: 14.2 x 9.2 x 1.4 cm |
Object type | Sketchbook |
Physical description | black vinyl bound, cream wove paper, black elastic book holder, black cotton page marker |
Maker |
Churcher, Peter |
Place made | Bahrain, Indian Ocean, Indian Ocean: Diego Garcia, Persian Gulf, United Arab Emirates: Dubai |
Date made | 1 February 2002-March 2002 |
Conflict |
Period 2000-2009 Afghanistan, 2001-2021 |
Copyright |
Item copyright: © Australian War Memorial![]() |
Sketchbook containing 40 pages of pencil drawings of figures, head studies, animal studies, fish studies, landscapes, warships, diary entries and list of works
Description
Black vinyl bound, cream wove paper sketchbook containing 42 pages of pencil drawings of figures, head studies, animal studies, fish studies, landscapes, warships, diary entries and list of works.
Order a copy- recto: artist's notes; verso: left side of drawing of the Persian Gulf
- recto: right side of drawing of the Persian Gulf and artist's diary notes; verso: sketch of the back of a man's head
- Captain at briefing
- upper image: Group of head studies; lower image: portrait in left profile
- recto: Figure study; verso: The mess
- recto: Figure and head studies in the mess; verso: Dinner time; Rambo on TV
- recto: Studies of a group of figures seated at a table eating dinner; verso: Figures in a street
- recto: Seated local figure; arabic script at top of page; verso: Local woman wearing a headscarf standing in the street
- recto: Seated and standing figures; verso: Single seated figure and back of head wearing a Muslim cap
- recto: Seated local figure left and seated Australian airman right; verso: Figures in a ship's hangar
- recto: Mosque minarets and figure of a local woman; verso: Seated figure
- A local man smoking a hookha
- Seated figure of a local man wearing a Muslim cap; verso: arabic script
- Market buildings with arabic signs
- Fish vendor in the Dubai markets; verso: Fish vendor
- Fish at the Dubai markets
- Dubai market
- Head of a tuna fish
- In the desert; verso: Cleaning weapons (left side of image)
- Cleaning weapons (right side of image); verso: Seated figure reading
- Figure of a seated navy man in right profile; verso: diary entry
- Full-page diary entry; verso: Oil refineries on the ocean
- Supply ship USS 'Bridge', Persian Gulf
- Oil refineries in the Persian Gulf; verso: Human line passing supplies (left side of image)
- Human line passing supplies (right side of image); verso: Screensaver image on computer in Operation Room
- Group of airmen on board HMAS 'Kanimbla' in the Persian Gulf
- US Navy Seals boat; verso: On board the 'desert duck' (left side of image)
- On board the 'desert duck' (right side of image); verso: Heads and feet of cattle at the Bahrain meat market
- Heads of cattle, Bahrain meat market; verso: Sheep's heads, Bahrain meat market
- Sheep's carcass, Bahrain meat market; verso: Bull's head, Bahrain meat market (left side of image)
- Bull's head (right side of image); verso: Rams' head (left side of image) and text
- Rams' head (right side of image)
- Ismael; sitting at cafe Bahrain
- Portrait of Jasin; verso: Street scene with seated woman and road hat (left side of image), and text
- Street scene with seated woman and road hat (right side of image); veso: Right profile portrait of US marine
- Sketches of heads; verso: B52 US bomber about to take off
- Seated sailor; verso: Two sailors relaxing
- Studies of two seated sailors and one head; verso: Sketch of a sailor lying down
- Studies of two heads and right leg of a sailor
- Study for '"Jack" Daniels'; verso: Artist's notes
- Artist's notes; verso: Artist's notes