Lustre. Group exhibition 2026 and 2027
In April and May 1941, Allied and Greek forces fought a desperate campaign across mainland Greece and Crete to slow the German invasion, ending in a hard-fought withdrawal and evacuation after weeks of fierce battles. In 2025, a group of Australian and New Zealand artists and photographers arrived in Greece to paint the landscapes scarred by Operation Lustre. These image were created during a group artist expedition to Greece and Crete called Lustre following in the footsteps of the Anzacs of WWII in 1941. www.paintingoperationlustre.com.au Photographs created using stills extracted from Red Komodo X cine camera. Camera courtesy of Red Digital Cinema. Quotes from the Australian soldiers who served in Greece in WWII from UNSW Australians at War Film Archive australiansatwarfilmarchive.unsw.edu.au | Image 1 "there is nothing like being free" Private Reg Worthington. 1st Aust Corps.
| Image 2 "nobody know why we went to Greece" Private Frank Roy 2/7th Battalion (image includes painter Rodney Pople).
| Image 3 "I could see tomorrow’s sun and the sun after that" Private Roland Griffiths Marsh 2/8th Battalion.
| Image 4 "I didn’t give a damn, all I wanted to do was go home" Seaman Patrick Bridges HMAS Nizam.
| Image 5 painter Steve Lopes at Vevi.
| Image 6 Historian Brad Manera, painter Angeliki Androutsopoulos and painter Joanna Logue at Hill 107.
| Image 7 The Charlies, Heraklion.
| Image 8 Painter Euan Macleod at Heraklion.
| Image 9 Painter Euan Macleod at Tempe Gorge.
| Image 10 Painter Michelle Hiscock at Souda Bay.
| Image 11 Painter Alan Daniel Jones at Tempe Gorge.
