Quiet Skies, a major glass installation by artist Annette Blair, is permanently displayed in the newly opened main entrance of the Australian War Memorial. 

Blair, a respected glass artist who lives and works in Canberra, was commissioned to create two glass sculptural installations suspended above the memorial’s new spiral stairwells – Quiet Skies, as the sun rises and Quiet Skies, as the sun sets.

Each artwork is composed of around 900 handcrafted glass eucalypt leaves, evoking the Australian landscape and they have been inspired by words from Laurence Binyon’s poem For the Fallen, “At the going down of the sun and in the morning, we will remember them.”

“It is a universal symbol of hope and renewal, endings and beginnings, and remembering the sacrifices made for a new day,” Blair said.

The works were fabricated at Canberra Glassworks in Kingston.