Prominent Australian artist Imants Tillers has designed a major tapestry for the Australian War Memorial.
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The work, entitled Avenue of Remembrance, will be 3.3m by 2.8m and is expected to take over 2380 hours to complete.
Commissioned by the memorial, it's being woven by master weavers at the Australian Tapestry Workshop in Melbourne, and will be unveiled in Canberra during centenary commemorations of Gallipoli on ANZAC Day next year.
Director of the workshop Antonia Syme said Tillers' design was "a beautiful depiction of a time of great loss in 'the war to end all wars'. Interpreted into tapestry, this will create a profound sense of contemplation and remembrance at the Australian War Memorial'.
Tillers, one of Australia's most significant living artists, lives in Cooma, has had several major solo surveys of his work shown in Australia, England, New Zealand and Latvia, and is represented in several major Australian public collections.