Forty years on from the tragedy of Gallipoli, Sidney Nolan reflected on the campaign and what it meant for the history of Australia and his own experience of the Second World War.

Evelyn Chapman was the first Australian woman to record the battlefields of France. She toured the Somme region, painting vivid paintings of still-smouldering ruins and trenches.

During his wartime service as a medical orderly, Australia’s first abstract artist Roy de Maistre began to experiment with colour and form as means of providing therapy to psychologically wounded soldiers.