Australian authorities sent artists to the WW1 battlefields to interpret and commemorate war. But unlike similar schemes in Britain and Canada, ours neglected the war experience at home and the ...

Historian Margaret Hutchison and art critic/historian Sasha Grishin discuss the impact the "war to end all wars" had on Australian art, Eddie speaks to curator from the Australian War Memorial ...

Margaret Hutchison, Painting War: a History of Australia’s First World War Art Scheme, Cambridge University Press, 284pp, £49.99, $64.99 (hb) Book Shorts Painting Australia War art War artist.

An Australian street artist explores war history and truth-telling as he creates a colossal mural of a 'forgotten' Aboriginal WW1 soldier. In 2014, large-scale poster artist Hego assembled a 6.5m ...

Portraits of horror and human kindness: Why Australia still sends artists to war. By Helen Pitt. April 25, 2023. Ben Quilty creating his artwork from Afghanistan where he was an official war artist.

WW1 Australian artists worked as hospital orderlies and wardsmen in military hospitals. Duration: 15 minutes 41 seconds 15m . Get the ABC listen app Take your favourite podcasts and radio with you.

“I am 70 and I still throw spears,’’ declares indigenous artist Frank Young, who has travelled hund­reds of kilometres from Amata, his community in South Australia’s APY Lands, to ...

Australian artist Luke Cornish has been bringing colour to the streets of Syria, using street art to help young children escape the trauma of war.

The Dangerously Modern exhibition, produced by AGSA and the Art Gallery of NSW, aims to correct such trivialisation of pre-war female artists from this region, showing more than 200 of their works ...