INTERFETA painting of Australian soldiers in East Timor

INTERFET was formed to keep the Indonesian military from slaughtering the East Timorese for having the audacity to vote for an independent sovereign nation.
Painted: 2002.
Materials: Acrylic on MDF board.
Availability: This painting is in a private collection.
The story behind INTERFET
The soldiers were there as part of the INTERFET forces which were to protect the local Timorese population from the murderous pro-Indonesian militias who started using horrific violence after there was a successful vote for independence.
Bert Ernie has created a deliberate body of photorealism that doesn’t easily fall into the trap of being overly reliant on visual tricks to provide the viewer with something worth looking at. He believes that photorealist art should also be about ideas, as well as being easily understandable.
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This painting has an abstract painting (Jungle 1) on the reverse side.
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