The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
'Bomb Dive' attempts to express the tense vibrant moment of an aircraft hurtling and screaming downward. It is a life-size composition. In the artist's words: "The suggestion of an aircraft cockpit is somewhat like that of a Kittyhawk but I have not made it specifically so."
'Bomb Dive' attempts to express the tense vibrant moment of an aircraft hurtling and screaming downward. This is a model for a much larger composition of beaten and welded copper. In the artist's word
This is an unusually delicate and subtly printed Australian recruiting poster. However, the beauty of the composition and colours belies the violent and tragic subject matter. It features a raid by tw
Well-known painter, printmaker and ceramic artist Garry Shead (b. 1942) trained at the National Art School, Sydney, between 1961 and 1962. His work is held in several national, state and regional gall
German aircraft bomb sight removed from the first German two seater to be shot down in British lines, Palestine 1917. The instrument comprises two triangles with their peaks truncated, the smaller bei
Pencil sketch of a First World War aircraft in flight, shedding its bomb load. Artist's notes accompany image and have been hand written on the manila folder to which the sketch is adhered. Those that
This painting is the earliest known artistic representation of the Anzac landing at Gallipoli in Turkey in 1915 by a professional artist who was also a participant. It is a vivid watercolour sketch of
