The Australian War Memorial has launched Art of nation: Australia’s official art and photography of the First World War, a digital interpretation of the earliest plans for the Memorial. Australian official war historian and Memorial […]
Several Australian artists enlisted during WWI, both to serve in military roles and also to use art to capture the experiences at the front line. Hear historian Ross McMullin, author and illustrator Jo Oliver, print […]
On Sunday 25 April 1915, Anzac troops began landing on the Turkish coast at Gallipoli (Turkish name, Gelibolu) in what has become a defining campaign of World War I. The Power Institute is proud to […]
Paul Klee in Peace and War: Tunisia and the German Home Front 1914-18 22 July 2014, Art Gallery of NSW Proudly presented by The Power Institute, The University of Sydney with the generous support of […]
The Spiros Zournazis Memorial Fellowship has been initiated to support research into the Australian War Memorial’s extensive art collection by early career scholars. The Fellowship is open to honours or postgraduate students undertaking a thesis […]
Contemporary War: A message from Afghanistan In 2007, Lyndell Brown and Charles Green were appointed Australian Official War Artists – as “contemporary” war artists in that immensely high profile tradition. They were deployed for six […]
Disaster, Death and the Emotions in the Shadow of the Apocalypse The University of Melbourne, September 1st-2nd, 2012 This symposium will explore the different ways that communities and individuals understood disaster and mass death in the 16th […]
