Art in Conflict is a touring exhibition of contemporary art from the collection of the Australian War Memorial. Three major bodies of work debut in this exhibition: two recent official war art commissions – Susan Norrie (Iraq, 2016) and Megan Cope (Middle East, 2017) – and a landmark commemorative work by Angelica Mesiti.

During the war, artists and photographers were deployed to the front to witness and record the war first hand. Art of nation is a digital experience that lets you explore Australia's official war art and photography collection as Bean had intended, in the space he designed.

Oct 29, 2016 · The paintings, drawings and prints in Artists of the Great War provide an introduction to the achievement of Dyson’s war art. His rapid, fluent line skilfully captures the soldiers’ dreadful circumstances and the loneliness and fatigue of life on the front line.

Apr 30, 2019 · The Australian War Memorial’s art program is one of the country’s most enduring commemorative practices and one of its largest commissioning programs. In fact, the government has sent artists to almost every conflict in which Australia has been involved since the First World War, a tradition that continues today.

At the time of the war, ten Australian artists living in England and another five already serving with the AIF were commissioned to record the Australian experience. Research the official war art scheme. Do you think it is important to employ artists in this way? Why or why not?

Dec 15, 2017 · His wartime output includes images of war machinery stranded in the landscape and scenes of operations headquarters, dressing stations and field hospitals. Streeton visited regions in France where the Australian army had been successful against the enemy, including Poulainville, Péronne and Mont St Quentin, overlooking the Somme.

Wartime artwork throughout history has been used to document and share the humanity and the inhumanity of war. Since World War I, more than 70 official war artists have been appointed by the Australian Army or the Australian War Memorial.

Jul 31, 2022 · Art in Conflict is a new touring exhibition of contemporary art from the collection of the Australian War Memorial. Three major new bodies of work debut in this exhibition: two recent official war art commissions – Susan Norrie (Iraq, 2016) and Megan Cope (Middle East, 2017) – and a landmark commemorative work by Angelica Mesiti.

Art in Conflict is an academic research project on war art and official war artists, focusing on recent art commissions by the Australian War Memorial.

Led by Professor Kit Messham-Muir from Curtin University, the 2018 Australian Research Council (ARC) Linkage Project Art in Conflict: Transforming contemporary art at the Australian War Memorial investigates some of the conflicts and compromises that characterise official schemes for commissioning Australian contemporary war art.