“Victory girls” 1943
This is one of the pictures I studied at school. I like it because it’s so different and stylised. known as part of the group “angry penguins”, this picture is part of the series, Images of Modern Evil. (1945-47). This particular painting shows the “victory Girls”, who were the girls in Melbourne who put on skirts made from colourful strips of fabric, to meet the soldiers in St Kilda.” War, Horror and anxiety. In this setting the human figure assumed demonic form” - Albert Tucker 1982