The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Informal portrait of NX191297 (N260217) Sergeant Ralph Trafford Walker (left) at camouflage school. An artist from Punchbowl, NSW prior to enlistment, Walker studied at Brisbane Tech with L.J. Harvey, at East Sydney Technical College under Rayner Hoff, at the Royal Art Society School under Datillo Rubbo and Sydney Long, and (from 1937 to 1941) under Henry Gibbons at the Julian Ashton School. He served in the Citizens' Military Forces from 1941 to 1944, during which time he was promoted to Corporal. Cpl Walker enlisted in the AIF on 28 Sep 1944 and following training was appointed an Official War Artist with the Australian War Memorial. In this role he created three dioramas (Weewak, Artillery Hill, Bougainville 1944, and Bacon Hill New Britain 1945), and a suite of drawings and sculptures for the Memorial's National Collection. He was discharged with the rank of Corporal in 1947.
Originally called 'Boy from Arawe'. The sculpture depicts the head of a member of the New Guinea Infantry Battalion, with the artist noting that he was from a district where the heads of children are
Informal group portrait of sculptors working under the instruction of George Rayner Hoff on the sculptures and reliefs for the Anzac War Memorial, Hyde Park, Sydney. Shown outside the G Rayner Hoff St
Informal group portrait of sculptors working under the instruction of George Rayner Hoff on the sculptures and reliefs for the Anzac War Memorial, Hyde Park, Sydney. Shown outside the G Rayner Hoff St
The giant clay figure of an airman in George Rayner Hoff's studio, Studio 9, in Sydney. This sculpture is one of sixteen figures made for the Anzac War Memorial in Hyde Park, Sydney, designed by C Bru
The interior of George Rayner Hoff's studio, Studio 9, in Sydney. To the left, artists under the instruction of Rayner Hoff work on a relief commissioned for the Anzac War Memorial, Hyde Park, Sydney.
Arthur Buist, an artist working under the instruction of George Rayner Hoff, cleans the plaster mold for a relief commissioned for the Anzac War Memorial at Hyde Park, Sydney.
