About the artwork
Fiona Hall’s artwork at Anzac Station celebrates military service through the story of two Victorian-bred carrier pigeons, awarded the animal equivalent of the Victoria Cross.
Bronze sculptures of the pigeons perch on either side of the station’s entrance from the Shrine of Remembrance Reserve.
The artwork also includes images of plant species with links to Australia’s military history, etched on glass wall panels on either side of the pigeons. The plants include Lone Pine, Gallipoli Oak, Gallipoli Rose, Flanders Poppy, Lombardy Poplar and Rosemary – all species that grow where Australians fought at Gallipoli and on the Western Front during the First World War.
About the artist
One of Australia’s leading contemporary artists, Fiona Hall was born in Sydney and lives and works in Hobart. Hall works across a broad range of media including painting, photography, sculpture and installation, often employing the forms of museological display.
Hall is best known for works that transform everyday materials into vital organic forms with both historical and contemporary resonances. Hall’s sculptures are characterised by their intricate construction and recurring themes of environmentalism, globalization, war and conflict.
