The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Depicts a group of people in the street observing two minutes silence in memory of fallen soldiers on Armistice Day. At the centre of the work, standing full frontal, is the eerie figure of death. His skeletal head stares directly at the viewer, providing a highly confronting reminder of the inescapable presence of death and the tragic loss of lives in the First World War.
Weaver Hawkins enlisted in the Queen's Westminster Rifles and served until the battle of the Somme in 1916. He was wounded and left for dead at Gommecourt but managed to survive and was sent back to England, where he was hospitalised. Hawkins wrote of his experience in Flanders during the First World War, "The whole place roaring with flames, a wonderful sight...gas...we were to be a sacrificial attack...the men with me were killed. I was left for dead...crawled back for two days." As evident in this chilling work, Hawkins was able to strongly identify with themes of sacrifice, death and loss in a highly personal manner.
Painted in 1944, this painting of John Thomas Joyce is a rare portrait of a worker from the Reserved Occupations who were unable to enlist in the military. It is also a fine example of modernist portr
This symbolic and autobiographical work depicts separate aspects of Remembrance Day and the images conjured up on this occasion by the ex-soldier artist, including l-r: a woman observing a Remembrance
Depicts an illustration for a poem entitled 'The Silence' for the 'The ANZAC Book', showing an infantryman, in uniform, holding a rifle, passing the figure of Death, who holds a scythe in one hand and
Depicts a woman, wearing a burqa, set against a shadowy, unidentified background with mountains and water. With an atmosphere of vagueness and transition, the image suggests that the woman is part of
Depicts a drawing of a dugout entrance, a piece of hession hangs to the right of the entrance. In the foreground on a chair are some cups and a panikin. A church can be seen in the background of the d
Two warriors in combat. Frontal upper body of warrior holding above his head a three-legged body of a dead warrior lying horizontally with his head pointing to the right. The figures are modelled with
