Remembrance, Memorial and The Day
Remembrance, Memorial and The Day contains selected images from an exhibition at The Atrium by Visual Arts students and staff at Blacktown Boys High School, exploring themes raised by the ANZAC experience in World War 1. Although many students at the school have different countries of birth, what they found in common through researching the experiences of the Australian ANZACs was a shared value given to family, friends, country and belonging. They were challenged by the loss of life at such a young age that many ANZACs experienced. They also saw that every army had its own young people, suffering and fighting for their beliefs - war is not to be glorified but to be learned from...