The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
'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 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
'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 co
'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
First World War Gallipoli landscape of Walker's Ridge and Russell's Top, looking north. Walker's Ridge is named after Brigadier Harold Bridgwood Walker, commander of the New Zealand Infantry Brigade;
Depicts the entrance to the trenches on Russell's Top and The Sphinx from the south west. The Sphinx was one of the prominent landmarks on the Gallipoli penisula, and it was known to the troops by var
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
Landscape of Table Top and Chunuk Bair. Table Top was just over one kilometre inland from Anzac Cove and was taken by a New Zealand contingent in the August advance. Chunuk Bair was a high ridge on Sa
