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Australian artists and the First World War

2.Weaver Hawkins

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The young English artist and rifleman Weaver Hawkins barely survived the Battle of the Somme. The experienced changed him and his art forever and after moving to Australia in 1935 he used his artistic practice to criticise militarism.

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