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20 April to 9 June, 2024
Noosa Regional Gallery
Art in Conflict is a new touring exhibition of contemporary art from the collection of the Australian War Memorial.
The Noosa Regional Gallery will be the second last destination for the national tour that began in 2022.
The exhibition says curator Dr Anthea Gunn, “reveals neglected histories, untold stories, and deepens our understanding of Australia’s experience of conflict, both past and present.”
Michael Brennan gallery director said, “Like many of the exhibitions we share at Noosa Regional Gallery, Art In Conflict showcases the diverse responses of contemporary artists to difficult topics, in this case, the untold stories of our Country’s involvement in conflict.”
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 includes more than seventy paintings, drawings, films, prints, photography, and sculpture. Leading Australian artists are represented. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art, a collection priority for the Memorial in recent years, is featured, with works by Tony Albert, Paddy Bedford, Robert Campbell Jr, Michael Cook, Shirley Macnamara, and Betty Muffler.