Lawrence English, Ellis Hutch and Lee Grant were commissioned by the National Portrait Gallery to create works for All that fall.
Australian sound artist Lawrence English has created two related sound-works. An immersive soundscape tints the exhibition space. A multi-channel sound installation includes spoken names of the 11th Battalion, the first to fall at Gallipoli.
In Theodora Cowan’s proposed memorial the dying Anzac is lying in the arms of Death, with female Destiny nursing a baby, a young boy representing Love and the Angel of Immortality holding aloft a torch. Canberra-based artist Ellis Hutch has created an installation as a poetic and evocative response to the intent of Cowan’s memorial.
The dead were buried far from home. Most graves would never be visited by the immediate family. The absence of the non-returned is evoked in spare and haunting landscape photographs devoid of figures by Canberra-based artist Lee Grant.
Video credits: music by Chris Zabriskie
