Created in the shadow of the Vietnam War and at the height of the Funk art movement, Adelaide-based artist Olive Bishop’s Wash and War will be in the spotlight at the Art Gallery of South Australia on ANZAC Day.
He grew up in a tiny South Australian town famous for its rodeo, but historian Robin Prior has made his career roping in the myths proliferating around Australia’s war efforts. His huge new undertaking, however, is being hampered by cuts to our national archives, and politicians’ priorities which favour hagiography over history.