TO commemorate Remembrance Day, Redland Museum will host an exhibition The Real Cost of War by artist Beverley Teske. All of her work is to commemorate fallen soldiers, including triptych a floor installation featuring bottle tops.
Her piece Lost at Gallipoli was inspired after seeing film The Water Diviner.
Beverley was moved by the monumental scale of grief and loss suffered by all countries.
Each hand-drawn cross, a total of 130,842, represent a life lost at Gallipoli.
Looking into this painting you will see six layers of crosses washed in the blood of the fallen.
The work, 11,430 Anzacs is made up of 11,430 hand drawn crosses, one for each Anzac life lost at Gallipoli. Beverley notes that as a country we must always remember the sacrifice these men and their families made.
Under Clear Blue Skies They Came to Die depicts 45,843 crosses, one for every Australian soldier killed during the Western Front campaign of 1916 – 1918.
There are five layers of crosses, each covered in the mud and the blood of the fallen.
While painting this artwork Beverley felt these were her boys, with every cross she drew holding a memory of promises lost. You can read more about Beverley’s work at beverleyteskeartist.com.
In addition to this installation, items from Sam Smith’s private collection of materials from WWI will be on display, supplemented with memorabilia from the museum’s archives.
Visit Redland Museum, 60 Smith St Cleveland, for this display from October 20 until November 11.
It is open daily 10am-3.30pm. Phone the museum on 3286 3494 for more information.
