{"id":1862,"date":"2023-09-26T14:09:01","date_gmt":"2023-09-26T04:09:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/oxley-college\/?post_type=article&p=1862"},"modified":"2023-09-26T16:21:43","modified_gmt":"2023-09-26T06:21:43","slug":"ben-quilty-shares-with-year-9-visual-art-about-his-time-as-official-war-artist-in-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/oxley-college\/article\/ben-quilty-shares-with-year-9-visual-art-about-his-time-as-official-war-artist-in-afghanistan\/","title":{"rendered":"Ben Quilty shares with Year 9 Visual Art about his time as Official War Artist in Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

As a part of the Australian Red Cross International Humanitarian Law (IHL) art project, Year 9 students heard from artist Ben Quilty, about his time in Afganistan as the Australian War memorial’s offical artist. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Art is a powerful means of reaching a wide and diverse audience. Through this medium, the Red Cross is able to educate people about IHL and the different aspects of wars, as well as how balance is achieved between military action and humanitarian protection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thanks to Ben for this moving presentation and to Kirsten Keith, a Red Cross representative for helping to facilitate this incursion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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As a part of the Australian Red Cross International Humanitarian Law (IHL) art project, Year 9 students heard from artist Ben Quilty, about his time in Afganistan as the Australian War memorial’s offical artist. Art is a powerful means of reaching a wide and diverse audience. Through this medium, the Red Cross is able to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":2370,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","article_category":[3],"article_tag":[],"class_list":["post-1862","article","type-article","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","article_category-good-other"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/oxley-college\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/1862","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/oxley-college\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/oxley-college\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/article"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/oxley-college\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1862"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/oxley-college\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/oxley-college\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"article_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/oxley-college\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article_category?post=1862"},{"taxonomy":"article_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/oxley-college\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article_tag?post=1862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}