George Lambert: Gallipoli and Palestine landscapes

Touring Exhibition

30 March 2007 to 2 May 2010

This exhibition traces George Lambert's work through his first journey to Palestine and the Sinai in 1918 and includes paintings he completed during the Australian Historical Mission to Gallipoli in 1919.

In just over 18 months, Lambert produced 99 small panel paintings, and hundreds of drawings and sketches of Gallipoli and Palestine. Concentrating on landscapes, the Memorial exhibition provides a unique insight into two very different, yet powerfully evocative, landscapes that moulded the experience of Australians in the First World War. These small panel paintings, which the official historian Charles Bean described as “brilliant little flashes, vivid with life”, give us an artist’s interpretation of the settings, atmosphere, and detailed topography of battle-sites from Anzac Cove and the Nek to Romani, Beersheba, and Barada Gorge.

A blog was developed to introduce George Lambert: Gallipoli and Palestine landscapes. The blog presents an account of its development, and a forum for a discussion of the broader issues which are raised by the exhibition. Curators and conservators will contribute posts about how the exhibition is being put together and outline some of the work involved in presenting an exhibition for tour.