LYNDELL BROWN/CHARLES GREEN AND JON CATTAPAN ‘lesson plan’ 03.11. – 24.11.2016.
Lyndell Brown and Charles Green have worked together as one artist since 1989. Since 2010, they have collaborated with Jon Cattapan on an ongoing series of works that emerge from their experiences as Australian war artists, Cattapan in Timor-Leste in 2009 and Brown & Green in Iraq and Afghanistan in 2007. Working across mixed media on paper, oil on linen, and with transparent digital prints overpainted in oil and acrylic, they have built a unique vocabulary that both speaks to the aftermath of contemporary wars but also to the contemporary condition of continuous conflict across the globe. In lesson plan, the artists show four remarkable transparent works fused to perspex and over-painted in oil and acrylic. The images emerge from the artists' field trip to Timor Leste in 2013 as part of an Australian Research Council Discovery Grant, where they gathered documentary material in Dili, Maliana, Gleno and Bacau. These works show how a shared, persisting and haunting memory of specific places is entwined with political and cross-cultural layers of meaning and disputation. The three artists have developed a unique and consistent aesthetic driven by their shared collaborative voice, a voice that they have articulated now over six years and that continues into future threeway projects. The works that the three have exhibited together have been acquired by major public art museums and private collections including the National Gallery of Australia, the UQ Museum of Art, the Australian War Memorial and the Shrine of Remembrance.
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2016 lesson plan, Dominik Mersch Gallery, Sydney Transformer, ARC One Gallery, Station Gallery, Melbourne 2015 Lesson Plan: A Collaboration (with Jon Cattapan), Heiser Gallery, Brisbane 2014 Spook Country: A Collaboration (with Jon Cattapan), ARC One Gallery, Station Gallery, Melbourne 2013 Boat Adrift, Heiser Gallery, Brisbane 2011 The Dark Wood, ARC One Gallery, Melbourne Lyndell Brown/Charles Green, Bruce Heiser Gallery, Brisbane Framing Conflict: Iraq and Afghanistan; Lyndell Brown and Charles Green, essay and curated by Warwick Heywood, Australian Embassy, Washington 2010 Lyndell Brown/Charles Green, Greenaway Art Gallery, Adelaide The Wire, Monash Gallery of Art, Melbourne Reading Room: Lyndell Brown/Charles Green, 2001-2007, QUT Gallery, Brisbane Framing Conflict: Iraq and Afghanistan; Lyndell Brown and Charles Green, essay and curated by Warwick Heywood, Australian War Memorial, touring 2009 The Gathering Storm, ARC One Gallery, Melbourne Framing Conflict: Iraq and Afghanistan; Lyndell Brown and Charles Green, essay and curated by Warwick Heywood, Ian Potter Museum of Art, Melbourne 2008 War 2007, curated Peter Nagy, Nature Morte Gallery, New Delhi 2007 The Painters’ Family, ARC One, Melbourne 2006 Elemental Landscape, GrantPirrie, Sydney 2005 In Defence of Nature, ARC One, Melbourne Lyndell Brown and Charles Green, Gibsone Jessop, Toronto
2003 Eldorado, essay by Anthony White, ARC One, Melbourne The Waves, essay by Laura Murray-Cree, GrantPirrie, Sydney Arcadia, curated A Jagadeva, Monash University Gallery, Melbourne Lyndell Brown and Charles Green, Greenaway Gallery, Adelaide 2002 Atlas, essay by M.A. Greenstein, GrantPirrie, Sydney Sanctuary and other island fables (with Patrick Pound), curated Maudie Palmer, essay by Alex Miller, Herring Island Sculpture Park, Melbourne 2000 Explaining Longevity, Robert Lindsay Gallery, Melbourne Archive Fever (with Patrick Pound), Adam University Gallery, Victoria University, Wellington 1999 Double Vision: Towards a Theory of Everything, part 1 (with Patrick Pound), curated Alasdair Foster, Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney List Structure: Towards a Theory of Everything, part 2 (with Patrick Pound), Curtin University Gallery, Perth, RMIT Gallery, Melbourne Captivity Narrative, Melbourne: Robert Lindsay Gallery, Melbourne 1998 Face à l’histoire: the photographs of Lyndell Brown/Charles Green, Robert Lindsay Gallery, Melbourne 1996 Lyndell Brown/Charles Green, Michael Wardell Gallery, Melbourne 1995 Lyndell Brown/Charles Green, Michael Wardell Gallery, Melbourne 1994 Lyndell Brown/Charles Green, Michael Wardell Gallery, Melbourne 1993 Lacquer Room, University of Western Sydney Nepean, Sydney Lyndell Brown/Charles Green, Annandale Galleries, Sydney Lyndell Brown/Charles Green, 13 Verity Street Gallery, Melbourne 1992 Lyndell Brown/Charles Green, Annandale Galleries, Sydney
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBTIONS 2015 Colour My World (with Jon Cattapan), National Gallery of Australia Storm in a Teacup, Mornington Regional Gallery, Melbourne First Landing to Last Post: Contemporary artists’ perspectives on 100 years of military service, Australian Parliament Hournse, Canberra 2014 Decennalia, Heiser Gallery, Brisbane Afghanistan: Voices from a War (with Jon Cattapan), Shrine of Remembrance, Melbourne Conflict: Contemporary Responces to War (with Jon Cattapan), University of Queensland Museum of Art, Brisbane 2013 Melbourne Now (with Jon Cattapan), National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne New 2013, University of Queensland Museum of Art, Brisbane 2012 Melbourne International Art Fair, Heiser Gallery, Melbourne 2012 Geelong Contemporary Art Prize, Geelong Gallery, Geelong Negotiating This World: Contemporary Australian Art, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne Animal/Human, University of Queensland Museum of Art, Brisbane Kindness/Udarta, Habitat Gallery, New Delhi, RMIT Gallery, Melbourne 2011 Double Vision, McClelland Regional Art Gallery, Langwarrin Looking at Looking: The Photographic Gaze, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne Collaborative Witness, University of Queensland Art Museum, University of Queensland, Brisbane 2010 A Tradigital Survey, Level 17 Artspace, Victoria University, Melbourne Duetto, Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide 2009 Still Conflict: contemporary Australian photographers at war, Monash Gallery of Art, Wheelers Hill, Embassy of Australia, touring Turbulent Terrain: Manifestations of the sublime in contemporary art, Latrobe Regional Gallery, Morwell The University of Queensland National Artists Self Portrait Prize 2009 Redlands Westpac Art Prize 2009, invitation award exhibition, curated Imants Tillers, Mosman Regional Gallery, Sydney 2008 Order and Disorder: Archives in Photography, curated Maggie Finch, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
2007 Voiceless: I feel therefore I am, curated Charles Green, Sherman Galleries, Sydney 2006 Other Dimensions: Contemporary Photomedia from Australia, China and Japan, curated Sue Smith, Rockhampton Art Gallery, Rockhampton A Distant Mirror, curated M.Y. Art Prospects, New York 2005 Tranquility (with Rosie Farrell and George Parkin), Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, ARC One Gallery, Melbourne, M.Y. Art Prospects, New York 2004 Photographica Australis, National Gallery of Singapore, Singapore, National Gallery, Bangkok, National Museum of Modern Art, Taipei, and Bangladesh Biennale 2003 See here now: art collection of the 1990s, Ian Potter Museum of Art, Melbourne Collaged World: Lyndell Brown/Charles Green, Robert Rooney, David Wadelton, John Young, McClelland Regional Gallery, Langwarrin Spaced Out, curated Alasdair Foster, Australian Centre for Photography 2002 Tales of the Unexpected, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra Photographica Australis, curated Alasdair Foster, Sala de Exposiciones del Canal de Isabel II, Madrid 2001 Indicium: Contemporary Australian Photomedia, Insa Art Centre, Seoul, Korea 2000 Boundlessly Various and Everything Simultaneously, Bose Pacia Modern, New York 1998 – 2001 Southern Reflections: Ten Contemporary Australian Artists, Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney, Kulturhuset, Stockholm, Sweden; Konsthallen, Göteborg, Sweden; Kostmuseum, Arhus, Denmark; City Art Museum, Helsinki, Finland; Neues Museum, Bremen, Germany; Städtische Kunstsammlungen, Chemnitz, Germany; Stenersenmuseet, Oslo, Norway
‘Invisible Man (Maliana 1)’, 2016, digital print on perspex with hand painted overlay, 123 x123 cm framed
‘Invisible Man (Maliana 2)’, 2016, digital print on perspex with hand painted overlay, 123 x123 cm framed
‘Invisible Man (Maliana 3)’, 2016, digital print on perspex with hand painted overlay, 123 x123 cm framed
‘Scatter 2 (Santa Cruz)’, 2016, digital print on perspex with hand painted overlay, 84 x 309 cm framed
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