Title: Standing Guard, Anzac Bridge
Year:2021
Size:91cm w x 76cm h
Technique: Acrylic and Glaze

Standing Guard, Anzac Bridge is a combined aerial and frontal point-of-view perspective leading into Black Wattle Bay and the Sydney Fish Markets. My composite images create a narrative that embodies and reinforces the solid-preservation and respect to the Anzac soldiers who fought at Gallipoli. Yellow in the background is an abstract representation of the sand on the shores of Anzac Cove, where thousands of Australian soldiers perished. Yellow is the concept of courage and freedom, the force of attack our soldiers bravely faced in war. An Anzac statue silently stands guard, demanding respect on a contemporary gestural representation of the Anzac bridge as a pop art recreation of the historic Diggers sculptured by Alan Somerville. In life it stands at the west end of Anzac bridge in Sydney. The intention is to represent the soldier as pop art dots seen in print thus creating an essence of faded memories. The past and present is combined to honour our soldiers and our freedom we have today as aquatic and sub-aquatic images of fish and boats that enter freely in the bay.