Artist Clayton Tremlett has visited almost every WWI memorial across regional Victoria for his portrait study of digger memorials.
Memorials to Victoria's World War I diggers have become something of an obsession for Clayton Tremlett .
"I'm there at sunrise to catch the light on the face because , and the slouch hats often float downwards," he said.After taking about 80 photos of each memorial, he then chose the best image and used a process, including Photoshop, to produce screen print portraits on paper.The centrepiece, along with the 66 screen print portraits, is a decommissioned memorial that once stood in the tiny community of Korong Vale, 230 kilometres north-west of Melbourne.
Nicknamed "Jack" when the Immortals exhibition was shown at Bendigo's Military Museum last year, Mr Paterson said the RSL was happy to see it included in the exhibition."But he wasn't going back to the stonemason's yard."The exhibition also highlights the work of sculptor August Reitman, a pacifist of Swiss-German heritage, who significantly contributed to the image of the quintessential Aussie digger.
While the majority of the memorials are marble and imported from Italy, made by Italian craftspeople, Mr Tremlett said his favourite was one that stood atop an arch made from Australian sandstone in Murtoa, 25 minutes' drive north-east of Horsham.
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