The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
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 Day march in front of a cenotaph, a group of soldiers with heads bowed silently standing around a gun; the gun, with outstretched mechanical claws, becomes an anthropomorphic creature, extending across the bleak landscape; the skeletal hand in the foreground is a reminder of Hawkins' loss of the use of his right hand; in the centre the ghoul-like figures of a dead family rise from an open coffin; the background is dominated by images of a skull, barbed wire and a landscape filled with tombstones; at right workmen and a family group observe the two minutes silence traditionally kept on Remembrance Day. Remembrance Day is also known as Armistice Day, the anniversary of the signing of the Armistice between the Allied nations and Germany at 11am on 11 November 1918 that effectively ended the First World War.
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
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
Hanrahan depicts four women with their first names above the images from l-r: Alice, Molly, Dawn, Mary. Behind them on the wall are the images of six men l-r: Bob, Willy, Ron, Charlie, Arthur, David.
Drawn at 400 Australian Anti-Aircraft Battery positions, Middle Park, on Armistice Day. The Shrine of Remembrance and flag (on Government House), symbols of the last war, from a background to the read
This sculpture of Sir Edward 'Weary' Dunlop (1907-1993) commemorates all Australian doctors and other medical staff who served Australian prisoners of war in the Asia Pacific region between 1939-1945.
'American flag in Australian map' shows the continent of Australia covered in stars and stripes from the American flag. The map is covered with fine rows of hand stitching. This work is one in a se
