“Brown and Green are the subtlest artists in Australia. […their] postmodern pastiches of baroque pictures and contemporary urban views, reveal a knowledge of art history, old-master technique and the hottest themes in post-colonial theory.”
- Robert Nelson
Brown and Green’s ghostly paintings on Duraclear will haunt the walls of the Gibsone Jessop Gallery from May 11 to 27. One of Australia’s most established collaborative partnerships, the work of Charles Green and Lyndell Brown has been exhibited in The National Gallery of Victoria, the National Gallery of Singapore, the Art Gallery of New South Wales, and the National Gallery of Thailand.
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SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2004
Photographica Australis, curated by Alasdair Foster, (awarded Gold Medal), Bangladesh Biennale, Dacca, Bangladesh, exhibition travelling to National Gallery of Singapore, National Gallery, Bangkok, National Museum of Modern Art, Taipei.
2003
Eldorado, Arc 1 Gallery, Melbourne
Reunion, George Paton Gallery, Melbourne
The Waves, GrantPirrie Gallery, Sydney
Arcadia, exhibition catalogue with essay by Lyndell Brown, Monash University Faculty Gallery, Melbourne
Collaged World: Lyndell Brown/Charles Green, Robert Rooney, David Wadelton, John Young, curated by Robert Lindsay, McClelland Regional Gallery, Langwarrin
Spaced Out, Australian Centre for Photography and Sydney Festival, Sydney
X Melbourne, Canberra Contemporary Art Space, Canberra; Sydney College of the Arts Gallery, Sydney
See here now: art collection of the 1990s exhibition catalogue, essay “Lyndell Brown/Charles Green” by Ashley Crawford, Melbourne
2002
Lyndell Brown/Charles Green, Greenaway Gallery, Adelaide
Scatter, Span Gallery, Melbourne
Atlas, GrantPirrie Gallery, Sydney
Time Travel Sanctuary 2: Phillip George, Patrick Pound, Lynne Roberts-Goodwin, Lyndell Brown/Charles Green, curated by Charles Green, Victorian College of the Arts Gallery, Melbourne
Tales of the Unexpected, six-person exhibition curated by Deborah Hart, exhibition catalogue essay on Brown/Green, “Illusory worlds,” National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
Borderless Terrain, India Habitat Centre/Apparao Gallery, New Delhi, India
Photographica Australis, curated by Alasdair Foster, Sala de Exposiciones del Canal de Isabel II, Madrid
Sanctuary—and other island fables, with Patrick Pound, curated Maudie Palmer, Herring Island Environmental Sculpture Park, Melbourne
2001
Indicium: Contemporary Australian Photomedia, Insa Art Centre, Seoul
A Studio in Paris, S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney
2000
Explaining Longevity, curated Robert Lindsay, Robert Linday Gallery, Melbourne
Archive Fever: Towards a Theory of Everything, part 3, with Patrcik Pound, Adam University Gallery, Victoria University, Wellington, New Zealand
Boundlessly Various and Everything Simultaneously, Bose Pacia Modern, New York
1999
List Structure: Towards a Theory of Everything, part 2, with Patrcik Pound, Curtin University Gallery, Perth; RMIT Gallery, Melbourne
Double Vision: Towards a Theory of Everything, part 1, Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney
Captivity Narrative, Robert Lindsay Gallery, Melbourne
1998
Linda Benglis/Lyndell Brown & Charles Green/Bose Krishnamachari, curated by Peter Nagy, Nature Morte, New Delhi
List Structure: Lyndell Brown/Charles Green, Patrick Pound, Debra Phillips, Lynne Roberts-Goodwin, Robert Rooney, Sherman Galleries Goodhope, Sydney
Face à l’histoire: the photographs of Lyndell Brown/Charles Green, Robert Linday Gallery, Melbourne
Southern Reflections: Ten Contemporary Australian Artists, curated Elizabeth Cross, Kulturhuset, Stockholm, Sweden; Konsthallen, Arhus, Göteborg, Sweden; Kostmuseum, Helsinki, Denmark; Galleria Otso, City Art Museum, Finland; Neues Museum, Bremen, Germany; Städtische Kunstsammlungen, Chemnitz, Germany; Stenersenmuseet, Oslo, Norway. Tour coordinated by Art Gallery of New South Wales
Curated museum exhibitions
2004
Australian Culture Now, curators Charles Green, Kelly Gellatly and Jason Smith, National Gallery of Victoria and Australian Centre for the Moving Image, Melbourne
2003
World rush_4 artists: Doug Aitken, Eija-Liisa Ahtila, Lee Bul and Sarah Sze, curators Charles Green, Kelly Gellatly and Jason Smith, National Gallery of Victoria International, Melbourne
2002
Fieldwork: Australian Art 1968-2002, curators Charles Green and Jason Smith, National Gallery of Victoria Australia, Melbourne
AWARDS & HONOURS
2004
Gold Medal, Bangladesh Biennale, Dacca, Bangladesh (co-researcher Lyndell Brown; international prize in recognition of works of art included in the 2004 Biennale)
2003
Industry Seed Funding Project Grant, University of Melbourne
2002
New Work Grant with co-researcher Lyndell Brown, Visual Arts/Craft Fund, Australia Council.
ITMM Grant, University of Melbourne.
Arts Development Grant, co-researcher Lyndell Brown, Arts Victoria.
Horizons, Parks Victoria Residency, co-researcher Lyndell Brown, Lower Plenty, Victoria)
1999
Travelling Fellowship, Australian Academy for the Humanities.
1998
Gunnery Studio Research Residency, co-researcher Lyndell Brown, Woolloomooloo.
1997
Deacon James Award, University Gallery, University of Melbourne
Asialink/Sanskriti Residency, co-researcher Lyndell Brown, Delhi
1996
Geelong Contemporary Art Prize, Geelong Art Gallery, Geelong
SELECTED COLLECTIONS
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Rockhampton Regional Gallery, Queensland
Artbank, Sydney
Allen, Allen and Hemsley, Sydney
World Congress Centre, Melbourne
University of Western Sydney, Sydney
Heidelberg Repatriation Hospital, Melbourne
BHP, Melbourne; Art Gallery of West Australia, Perth
University of Melbourne (Vizard Foundation)
King’s School, Sydney
Campbelltown City Art Gallery, Sydney
Trinity College, Melbourne.
Private collections in Australia, United States, Spain, Germany, India, Japan, Canada
EDUCATION
Ph.D., University of Melbourne. Dissertation: “Thief in the Attic: Artistic Collaborations and Modified Identities in International Art after 1968.”
M.A. (Visual Arts), Monash University. Thesis: “Peripheral Vision: Abstract Painting and Criticism in Australia during the 1980s.”
B.A. (Honours), University of Melbourne. Honors Thesis: “The arrival of neo-expressionism in Australia.”
Bachelor of Arts (Fine Art), Victorian College of the Arts
Diploma in Education, Melbourne State College
Diploma of Art (Painting), National Gallery Art School, Melbourne
