Melbourne Stele for the Fallen at Gallipoli

 

Kevin Fletcher

  1956 - PRESENT (biography)

2019  

monotype 

12 7/8 x 7 7/8" image size 

pencil, lower right 

unique, annotated I/I 

pencil titled, dated, and editioned; annotated in pencil along bottom sheet edge: "Kevin G. Fletcher - unique print in one pass of mixed black ink from plexiglas" 

 

white Rives de lin wove 

published 

artist 

KEFL291 

$600.00 

A "stele" or "stela" is a carved wood or stone tablet, used in ancient times as a boundary marker for expeditions and in more contemporary times as funerary markers on battlefields. Fletcher creates a somber, elegant abstraction of the stone markers in Melbourne, Australia, which honor the deadly campaign that took place in Gallipoli (Gelibolu), Turkey, on April 25th, 1915.