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George Lambert: Gallipoli and Palestine LandscapesResuming at the Latrobe Regional Gallery on Monday 5 January, is the extraordinary exhibition ‘George Lambert: Gallipoli and Palestine Landscapes’ By Latrobe City - 24th December 2008 - Back to News This collection traces the paintings of war artist, George Lambert, through his first journey to Palestine and the Sinai in 1918 and Gallipoli in 1919.
Gallery team leader, Bryony Nainby, said that utilising small panel paintings, drawings and watercolours the exhibition takes as its main theme Lambert’s representation of significant landscapes and how these connect to individual and national memories of war.
"Lambert was employed by the Australian Government and worked as an official war artist in Palestine during 1918, documenting the efforts of the ANZAC Mounted Division and AIF. On arrival in the desert he was said to be ‘ridiculously happy’ as everywhere he looked he saw ‘glorious pictures, magnificent men and real top-hole Australian horses’.
"The small panel paintings he produced of the desert battlefields, rocky outcrops, and troopers with their horses reflect his ease at working in this environment. They are quickly done, the light-filled images of open country reminiscent of outback Australia where he had spent much of his youth," Ms Nainby explained.
Lambert himself commented, on seeing the landscape of Gallipoli, that "it seems incredible that our fellows could land, climb and establish themselves so quickly. The gruesome is, in fact, scattered all over the battlefield."
Ms Nainby added that it was this landscape with its evidence of the trauma and tragedy of Australia’s involvement in the Gallipoli campaign that Lambert described as ‘stern, unmoved, callous of the human.’
"This exhibition is a dramatic pictorial history as seen through the eyes of an artist who immersed himself in the very heart of the battlefields," Ms Nainby concluded.
‘George Lambert: Gallipoli and Palestine Landscapes’ continues until 15 February 2009.
Latrobe Regional Gallery is located at 138 Commercial Road, Morwell, and is open Monday to Friday 10am-5pm, and on weekends 11am–4pm. The gallery is closed public holidays and from 4pm Wednesday 24 December 2008 until 10am Monday 5 January 2009. Entry is free.
Source: http://gippsland.com/ Published by: news@gippsland.com
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