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At rest (Camp Phoenix)
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Maker: Cattapan, Jon
Here the soldiers are depicted in their downtime, the characteristic "hurry up and wait" rhythm of military activity, "...not the business side..." of their work in Timor-Leste. Whilst on deployment A...ART93987
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AWM Cinematographer Rob Nugent (checking audio)
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Maker: Cattapan, Jon
This sketch was completed on the spot while the Australian War Memorial's cinematographer, Rob Nugent, was checking his audio equipment. Nugent and Cattapan travelled together for the two week deploym...ART93977
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Crowd, Maliana
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Maker: Brown, Lyndell and Green, Charles Cattapan, Jon
In 2011, inspired by their Memorial commissions, Brown, Green and Cattapan started a collaborative project to explore conflict and its aftermath further. Their project was supported by an Australian R...ART96759
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Dili H-Pod helicopter tow
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Maker: Cattapan, Jon
A helicopter being towed to a maintenance shed at Dili airport. Cattapan painted this observational work in his accommodation quarters from a direct digital photograph he had taken. "I guess as an art...ART93979
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Heading out (Gleno)
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Maker: Cattapan, Jon
Cattapan was immediately struck by the contrast between the kitted-up Australian soldiers and the Timorese, who are slightly built and wear lighter weight clothes. This difference made it hard for the...ART93992
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Maliana day patrol
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Maker: Cattapan, Jon
Cattapan found that there was much evidence of Timor-Leste's recent violent past which though currently stable gave the atmosphere a sense of unease. There is a sense that the ADF soldiers can not b...ART93989
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Maliana day patrol (Meeting the Suko)
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Maker: Cattapan, Jon
Cattapan was able to observe the ADF soldiers performing their daily duties such as going out on patrols. "...the purpose of these patrols is basically to engage with the local population. It's a kind...ART93986
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Morning ablutions (Maliana)
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Maker: Cattapan, Jon
Morning ablutions (Maliana) shows the soldiers in their morning routine, making do as they shave using their tin mugs and truck rear-vision mirrors. The base at Maliana was in an old disused school bu...ART93985
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Night patrols (Around Maliana)
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Maker: Cattapan, Jon
Artist Jon Cattapan travelled to Timor–Leste in July 2008 as an official war artist commissioned by the Australian War Memorial. This triptych represents the culmination of the ideas represented in th...ART93993
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Night vision studies II
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Maker: Cattapan, Jon
Cattapan has conveyed a sense of stillness in this work, a moment of quiet contemplation and reflection for the soldiers after patrol. They appear isolated, as if floating, drifting in time and space,...ART94057
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Night vision studies vi
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Maker: Cattapan, Jon
This painting is a study of the effects of using night vision goggles, made in response to the artist's experience as an official war artist in Timor-Leste. Night vision goggles cut off the wearer’s p...ART94058
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Night vision studies vii
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Maker: Cattapan, Jon
This painting is a study of the effects of using night vision goggles, made in response to the artist's experience as an official war artist in Timor-Leste. Night vision goggles cut off the wearer’s p...ART94059
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Night vision studies xv
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Maker: Cattapan, Jon
This painting is a study of the effects of using night vision goggles, made in response to the artist's experience as an official war artist in Timor-Leste. Night vision goggles cut off the wearer’s p...ART94060
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Night vision studies xvi
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Maker: Cattapan, Jon
This small green deeply saturated painting conveys the uncertainty surrounding the Australians' night patrols, the realisation that the unknown is always there, just beyond the edge of their vision. T...ART94061
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Night vision studies xvii
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Maker: Cattapan, Jon
This painting is a study of the effects of using night vision goggles, made in response to the artist's experience as an official war artist in Timor-Leste. Night vision goggles cut off the wearer’s p...ART94062
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Maker: Cattapan, Jon
A black silhouetted soldier on a green background with organic shapes. This work was created when Cattapan returned from Timor-Leste. The background paper with it's organic abstract shapes was made ar...ART93982
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Raising communications (Beaco)
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Maker: Cattapan, Jon
When the artist arrived at the remote ADF Forward Operating Base at Beacu, on the south-west coast of Timor-Leste, communications with the outside world had been lost. Cattapan often witnessed the sol...ART93983
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Street scene with burnt-out courthouse, Gleno
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Maker: Cattapan, Jon
"...I had no idea that the infrastructure was just so completely wrecked and that there's a lot of work to be done there. ... I was expecting that there would still be some of the damage of the post-o...ART93991
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[Tabisi Markets, Dili]
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Maker: Cattapan, Jon
The filmic sensibility of Cattapan is quite evident in this work, with the top and bottom blue border framing the work as if it was a film still. Many of the other works in the 'Carbon Group' series m...ART93988
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Towards the ablution block and mess (with Clark mast), F.O.B. Baucau
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Maker: Cattapan, Jon
In Cattapan's previous bodies of work he has had a fascination with decrepit cities which has continued into the Timor-Leste works which depict destroyed, crumbling buildings of Timor and the makeshif...ART93980