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Mick Jones

Michael "Mick" Jones

After leaving the Navy in 2001, Michael Jones found photography.

By Jessica Benter

A.H. Fullwood, Chateau at Ham-sur-Heure (1918). ART02450

Art in a time of war

The experience of 1914-18 seen through the eyes of Australian artists

By Claire Baddeley

First World War 1914 - 1918
Napier Waller, In the trenches (c. 1918, watercolour on paper, 24 x 36 cm). AWM ART94646

Artist in the Trenches

Napier Waller served with the artillery in the First World War.

By Ann Ashton

First World War 1914 - 1918
Sybil Craig, Weighing cordite, Commonwealth explosives factory, Maribyrnong, 1945

Sybil Craig: for the war effort

Sybil's artworks capture the vital role of war industry workers on the home front.

By Michael Grant

Second World War 1939 - 1945
Horace Moore-Jones, NZ & A Headquarters, North Beach below the Sphinx, Gallipoli,

Gallipoli in art

Paintings by Horace Moore-Jones and Sidney Nolan

First World War 1914 - 1918
Roy Hodgkinson, 14 Australian Anti-aircraft Battery (Militia) Fixed Defences, Darwin (1942) AWM ART22719

Bombing Darwin 1942

A successful Japanese raid caught the Allied forces unprepared.

By Dr Thomas Rogers

Second World War 1939 - 1945
Vibrant painting showing a man eating with a Nazi soldier, with other green uniformed soldiers brandishing weapons outside to search haystacks.

Stories of Survival

An immigrant artist left a record of her wartime story.

By Ally Roche

Second World War 1939 - 1945
Alfred Bolter, Governor Davey's Proclamation to the Aborigines, 1816 (c. 1866, lithograph, 48 x 28 cm)

A Painted Proclamation

A colonial artwork in the Memorial’s collection has its roots in brutal frontier warfare.

By Dr Thomas Rogers

Colonial 1788-1901