A portrait portraying the conflict between being a mother and an Army service member has won a prestigious art prize, run by the Australian War Memorial.
Retired major Anneke Jamieson won the 2022 Napier Waller Art Prize for her portrait titled The Promotion.
"I've always admired the leaders I've served with – they give so much of themselves for their people. When our second and third children arrived, it was evident I couldn't be both the officer I wanted to be and the mother I needed to be."Mrs Jamieson said the servicewoman in the portrait was not meant to be her, but the work had been inspired by her own experiences and the experiences of others around her.
'Flying falling diving drowning' by Glen Braithwaite, who says the piece is aabout learning to overcome unconscious biases. "Their perspective, their history, what they've grown up with, the cumulative effects of their upbringing, are all things that contribute to how they look at the world." "That's my acknowledgement that a person has their own experience that aren't mine, and I needed to understand that their shredded canvas is probably quite different to my shredded canvas."
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