The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Scene inside the Commonwealth Ordnance Workshops showing two Australian built anti-aircraft guns being checked over before testing in the field. One of three drawings in the collection made by the artist during his tour of Commonwealth Munitions facilities in 1940. It shows the assembly floor to be a clean, brightly lit space with the men overshadowed by the size of the guns. The artist's appreciation of the beauty of machines was shared by the General Manager who commented 'The aeroplane is the loveliest thing a man can make - and next to that is the gun that shoots it down.'
Depicts a drawing of the first all Australian built 3.7 anti-aircraft gun, Commonwealth Ordnance workshop, Maribyrnong, Melbourne. The artist went to great lengths to get the angle of this gun raised
In 1940 with permits from the Department of Information artist R Emerson Curtis visited the Commonwealth Munitions area on the heights above the Maribynong River, Melbourne. The first area he was take
A daughter of English immigrants, Cossington Smith had no sympathy for the anti-conscriptionists or an Australian nationalism that posed itself against England. Yet the break she made with conventiona
This photogravure after a painting by Godfrey Douglas Giles, Boer War correspondent and artist for 'The Graphic', was published as a supplement to that newspaper in 1900. The artist writes, 'The other
Artist Lee Grant photographed the sky above the Korean War Memorial in Seoul, which she visited as part of a research residency considering the Korean War in September 2018. Grant photographed people
Artist Lee Grant photographed this abandoned military bunker in the Demilitarized Zone in South Korea in September 2018. Grant photographed the people and landscape of the region, drawn to scenes of e
