The Kenneth Jack Retrospective at Ballarat's Gallery on Sturt highlights the works of a famed Australian artist

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Updated March 5 2018 - 6:14pm, first published 9:14am
DAD'S WORK: David Jack, son of Kenneth Jack, with some of his father's works in the Kenneth Jack Retrospective, which is on display at Gallery on Sturt, 421 Sturt St, until March 31. Picture: Luka Kauzlaric.
DAD'S WORK: David Jack, son of Kenneth Jack, with some of his father's works in the Kenneth Jack Retrospective, which is on display at Gallery on Sturt, 421 Sturt St, until March 31. Picture: Luka Kauzlaric.

Kenneth Jack brought more back from the war than stories of battle – he returned home with 500 drawings, some sketched as bullets whizzed past his head on the islands north of Australia as troops fought off the Japanese march toward our shores.

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Michelle Smith

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