The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Soft ground etching, from a series of 10 etchings Arnold completed while completing an artist residency in Paris. The work was inspired by the artist's trip to the historic battlefields in Northern France in order to retrace the journey of his great-grandfather who fought at the Western Front. The complete series is held in the collection of the Imperial War Museum. Edition 5 of 10.
Soft ground etching, from a series of 10 etchings Arnold completed while completing an artist residency in Paris. The work was inspired by the artist's trip to the historic battlefields in Northern Fr
This work is one of a suite of ten etchings, collectively titled 'Memory/History, created in 1998 when Arnold was in residency at the Atelier Lacouriere et Frelaut in Paris (1998-1999). The work was i
This print is from the series of etchings 'Impressions de guerre'. Two French soldiers escort five weary German prisoners. They move across the image from left to right. Geffroy suggests that this wor
Darwin experienced 64 air raids during the course of the Second World War and there were several important wartime airfields established in the Northern Territory - Groote Eylandt, Gove and Millingimb
Four soldiers on horseback ride down a road through a landscape past a dead tree with a broken branch. The tree is evocative of ruined lives, as well as depicting wartime devastation. De Segonzac base
Ivan Clear Stretton (31903) served as a Gunner in the 13th Australia Artillery Brigade during the First World War. Between 1917 and 1918 he served in France and Belgium in the Ypres and Somme regions.