The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
From Beattie's 'Definition of peace' series (1976) this work relates to the artist's feelings as he was waiting for the telephone call that would tell him when he had to leave for Vietnam. The title refers to the fate of Vietnam conscripts but also to the vase of flowers that sits on a table, some of which are already dead and appear to be wired to the telephone cable. A packed kit bag leans against the table, suggesting an imminent departure. On the table lies a photograph of a baboon with two sets of eyes, which is printed with the words 'natural selection'. This is Beattie's way of suggesting that the ballot system was an unnatural and unjust means of selection. Two tubes of insects sit on the windowsill. A stained glass window dominates the background. The surrounding walls are grey. Beattie's work is haunting in a surrealist manner.
Uniformed figure carrying a rifle, striding forward in a stance suggesting he has just thrown a grenade. This work, though relating to the Vietnam War, Adams has documented that the work was drawn fr
Depicts a road along a ridge with bunker and funk holes along the face of the hillside. The debris on the side of the road suggest that these have been abandoned long ago and that the fighting has mov
An army helmet containing yellow, green, brown and orange colours in the pattern of camouflage with an orange sun in the upper right background. The words 'Agent Orange Sunset' and 'Born To Kill' are
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
Australian troops entering a Chinook helicopter in the Bien Hoa Province in Vietnam. In this work Ken McFadyen is exploring the relationship between the men and machinery of a modern war. As almost
This diptych is a commemorative work of art that explores the legacy of the Vietnam war on Shaun Gladwell's father, Mark Gladwell. It consists of two photographic light boxes titled "Contact Left" and