Shared Experience: ATS at Work

Art and War

• Introduction
• Battle
• Work
• Leisure
• Service
• Casualties
• Captivity
• Home
• Artists

Moynihan was concerned for the individual pressed into unfamiliar service during the war. The juxtaposition of the bland colours of uniform, camouflage and machinery contrasts with the volunteer’s own innocent features. Moynihan’s careful attention to the figure, and in particular to her painting arm, emphasises the care she is taking in her own work; an approach that seems at odds with the military exercises in the background.

Paintings

• Corvette Galley
  Leonard Brooks
• Glass-blowers 'Gathering' from the Furnace
  Mervyn Peake
• Parachute Riggers
  Paraskeva Clark
• Sections of buoyancy tank and floating caissons, Sydney graving dock
  Herbert McClintock
• No 1 projectile shop, (Commonwealth Ordnance Factory, Maribyrnong)
  Sybil Craig
• Working in the snow, Australian Forestry Unit, Scotland
  Sheila Hawkins
• Hull Riveting
  Frederick B. Taylor
• ATS at Work
  Rodrigo Moynihan
• The Camouflage Workshop, Leamington Spa, 1940
  Edwin La Dell
• The Merchant Navy: The chain-locker
  Henry Carr
• Private Roy, Canadian Women's Army Corps
  Molly Lamb Bobak
• Ruby Loftus screwing a Breech-ring
  Dame Laura Knight
• The billy boy
  William Dobell
• Transport driver (Aircraftwoman Florence Miles)
  Nora Heysen
• Weighing Down The Tail, New Brunswick
  Moses Reinblatt
• Patients waiting Outside a First Aid Post in a Factory
  Ruskin Spear