Reality in flames is the first exhibition dedicated exclusively to exploring how Australian modernist artists responded creatively to the Second World War. The exhibition consists of 84 works of art drawn from the Australian War Memorial’s collection.

Posters were an ideal means of communicating propaganda: impermanent yet public, they were designed to be noticed, and could be printed and distributed quickly in large numbers. The Memorial holds a large collection of wartime posters. Hearts and minds: wartime propaganda introduces this collection, featuring home-front propaganda from the First and Second World Wars.