The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
'Canterbury Diptych (with James)' is from a series of works that Euan Macleod made in response to a trip to the beaches of Gallipoli, in 2014, as part of the exhibition 'Your Friend the Enemy' that commemorated 100 years since the Gallipoli landings. For this project fifteen artists from Australia and New Zealand travelled to Turkey and worked outside 'en plein air', looking for new ways to paint the Gallipoli landscape and represent this important history.
Upon arrival Macleod forced himself not to paint for two days, instead he walked over the landscape observing and absorbing all around him. He responded by painting bold, dramatic landscapes that reflect on identity but also link to the idea of outsider as prevalent in his work - the soldier on a foreign land, an artist as a tourist on the Gallipoli Peninsula, Australian Graves on Turkish shores. As Macleod noted "It is about how we remember, what we remember and why we remember it. How we deal with the past and respond to the landscape."
Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program by Patrick Corrigan
'Clouds above Sphinx (North Beach)' is from a series of works that Euan Macleod made in response to a trip to the beaches of Gallipoli, in 2014, as part of the exhibition ' Your Friend the Enemy' that
'Russell’s Top (without Stanley)' is from a series of works that Euan Macleod made in response to a trip to the beaches of Gallipoli, in 2014, as part of the exhibition ' Your Friend the Enemy' that c
A dramatic Gallipoli landscape with cliffs. The cliffs are evoked through Nolan's use of mottled and striated patterning in deep red, pink and brown, meeting a mottled sky of pale green streaked with
A sombre landscape made up of areas of brown, green and blue thinly applied paint with stick-like lines scraped away. To the left is a figure of a soldier that has been created by Nolan using his fing
Depicts a feature of the Gallipoli landscape called the Sphinx. War correspondent Charles Bean notes in his journal how the ANZAC's named this feature of the Gallipoli landscape on 25 April 1915, the
A dramatic Gallipoli landscape with cliffs. The cliffs are evoked through Nolan's use of mottled and striated patterning in deep red, pink and blue and the sky is mottled pink with streaks of pink cra
