Description
Jan Senbergs collaborated with Col Madigan, one of the Armidale survivors to create this work which forms part of a series of ten pastel drawings depicting the sinking of HMAS Armidale on 1 December 1942. After surviving on the ship's whaler for eight days at sea, twenty-seven exhausted men were taken aboard HMAS Kalgoorlie. The sense of a communal struggle for survival is strongly conveyed in this work through the faceless mass of bodies which are shown desperately trying to climb aboard the rescue ship.
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Accession Number
ART91501
Object Type
Work on paper
Physical Description
Medium: pastel and synthetic polymer paint on paper
Measurement
image: 115 x 153 cm
Medium
pastel and synthetic polymer paint on paper
Credit Line
Purchased 2001
Copyright
AWM Licensed copyright
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