Shared Experience: 2/10th Australian Commando Squadron: wash and clean up
Ivor Hele
2/10th Australian Commando Squadron: wash and clean up
oil on canvas
50.8 x 61.4
This work forms part of the 2/10th Australian Commando Squadron series that Hele worked on following his second tour to New Guinea in 1943. Although he intended the series to be the best work he had ever done, he struggled with the gravity of some of the subject matter, as well as his increasingly poor health after a vehicle accident in New Guinea. Recovering slowly, he found it difficult to complete the series.
Paintings
- The sleeping soldier
Francis Lymburner - Battle of Arakan, 1943
Anthony Gross - Recruit's Progress: Medical Inspection
Carel Weight - Potato Peelers
Leonard Brooks - Tocumwal - loading the train
Yosl Bergner - Dream of the latrine sitter
Sidney Nolan - Soldier
Russell Drysdale - A Bofors Gun, Algiers
Henry Carr - 2/10th Australian Commando Squadron: wash and clean up
Ivor Hele - Smoko time with the AWLA
Grace Taylor - Early Morning P.T.
E.J. Hughes - CWAC Beauty Parlor #1
Pegi Nicol MacLeod - Ballet of wind and rain
Colin Colahan - Fatigue
Ralph Walker - Crowds dancing, Kings Cross, Sydney
Donald Friend