LYNDELL BROWN
Born: Melbourne, Australia, 1961
CHARLES GREEN
Born: Melbourne, Australia, 1953
Charles Green commenced working with Lyndell Brown on a long-term artist collaboration in 1989.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2008 Framing Conflict: Iraq and Afghanistan, Ian Potter Art Museum, Melbourne University, Melbourne
2007 The Painters' Family, ARC One Gallery, Melbourne
2006 Elemental Landscape, GRANTPIRRIE, Sydney
2005 In Defence of Nature, ARC One Gallery, Melbourne
Lyndell Brown and Charles Green, Gibsone Jessop Gallery, Toronto, Canada
2003 The Waves, GRANTPIRRIE, Sydney
Eldorado, Arc One Gallery, Melbourne
Arcadia, curated by Anurendra Jagadeva, Monash University Faculty Gallery, Melbourne
2002 Lyndell Brown/Charles Green, Greenaway Gallery, Adelaide
Scatter, Span Gallery, Melbourne
Atlas, GRANTPIRRIE, Sydney
SanctuaryÑand other island fables, with Patrick Pound, curated by Maudie Palmer, Herring Island Environmental Sculpture Park, Melbourne
2000 Explaining Longevity, curated by Robert Lindsay, Robert Lindsay Gallery, Melbourne
1999 Double Vision: Towards a Theory of Everything, part 1, with Patrick Pound, curated by Alasdair Foster, (Sydney: Australian Centre for Photography, 1999). Exhibition then succeeded by parts 2, 3, and 4, each time incorporating substantial and additional site-specific new, previously unexhibited, major joint works: Green, Charles, Brown, Lyndell, and Pound, Patrick (2000). Archive Fever: Towards a Theory of Everything, part 3 (Wellington, New Zealand: Adam University Gallery, Victoria University, 2000). Green, Charles, Brown, Lyndell, and Pound, Patrick (1999). List Structure: Towards a Theory of Everything, part 2, Perth: Curtin University Gallery, 1999. Melbourne: RMIT Gallery, 1999).
Captivity Narrative, curated by Robert Lindsay, Robert Lindsay Gallery, Melbourne
1998 Face ˆ l'histoire: the photographs of Lyndell Brown/Charles Green, curated Robert Lindsay, Robert Lindsay Gallery, Melbourne
1996 Michael Wardell Gallery, Melbourne
1995 Michael Wardell Gallery, Melbourne
1994 Michael Wardell Gallery, Melbourne
1993 University of Western Sydney Nepean, Sydney
Annandale Galleries, Sydney
13 Verity Street Gallery, Melbourne
1992 Annandale Galleries, Sydney
1991 13 Verity Street Gallery, Melbourne
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2008 50X50 Summer Show, Arc One Gallery, Melbourne
2006 Other Dimensions: Contemporary Photomedia from Australia, China and Japan, curated Sue Smith, Rockhampton Art Gallery, Rockhampton
A Distant Mirror, M.Y. Art Prospects, curated by Miyako Yoshinaga, New York, USA
2005 Tranquility, curated by Natasha Bullock, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, traveling to ARC One Gallery, Melbourne (September 2005), and M.Y. Art Prospects, New York (October 2005)
2004 Photographica Australis, curated by Alasdair Foster, exhibition traveling to National Gallery of Singapore, National Gallery, Bangkok, National Museum of Modern Art, Taipei, and the ÒBangladesh BiennaleÓ (the authors awarded Gold Medal), Dacca, Bangladesh
2003 See here now: Art Collection of the 1990s, curated by Chris McAuliffe, The Ian Potter Museum of Art, University of Melbourne, Melbourne
Reunion, curated by Kirrilee Hammond, George Paton Gallery, Melbourne
Collaged World: Lyndell Brown/Charles Green, Robert Rooney, David Wadelton, John Young, curated by Robert Lindsay, McClelland Regional Gallery, Langwarrin, Vic
Spaced Out, curated by Alasdair Foster, Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney and as part of the Sydney Festival
X Melbourne, curated by Gary Willis, Canberra Contemporary Art Space, Canberra, touring to Sydney College of the Arts Gallery, Sydney
2002 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, curated by Deborah Hart, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra.
Borderless Terrain, curated by Alka Pande, India Habitat Centre/Apparao Gallery, New Delhi, India
Photographica Australis, curated Alasdair Foster, Sala de Exposiciones del Canal de Isabel II, Madrid
2001 Indicium: Contemporary Australian Photomedia, Insa Art Centre, Seoul, Korea
A Studio in Paris, S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney
2000 Boundlessly Various and Everything Simultaneously, Bose Pacia Modern, New York, USA
1998 Southern Reflections: Ten Contemporary Australian Artists, curated by Elizabeth Cross, touring exhibition to Kulturhuset, Stockholm, Sweden; Gšteborg, Sweden: Konsthallen, Arhus, Denmark: Kostmuseum. Helsinki, Finland: Galleria Otso, City Art Museum. Bremen, Germany: Neues Museum. Chemnitz, Germany: StŠdtische Kunstsammlungen. Oslo, Norway: Stenersenmuseet. Tour coordinated by Art Gallery of New South Wales, 1998-1999). A large, major touring European survey of contemporary Australian art.
List Structure: Lyndell Brown/Charles Green, Patrick Pound, Debra Phillips, Lynne Roberts-Goodwin, Robert Rooney, Sherman Galleries Goodhope, Sydney
Linda Benglis/Lyndell Brown & Charles Green/Bose Krishnamachari, curated by Peter Nagy, Nature Morte, New Delhi, India
1997 Deacon James Award exhibition, University Gallery, University of Melbourne
Gifts for India, National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi, India
1996 Geelong Contemporary Art Prize exhibition Geelong Art Gallery, Geelong, Vic
CitŽ des Arts, Paris, France
1995 King's School Art Award (Winning Entry), Sydney
ARCO, Madrid, Spain
The Lovers, curated by Juliana Engberg, Museum of Modern Art, Heide, Melbourne
Girls! Girls! Girls! Annandale Galleries, Sydney, and Orange Regional Gallery, Orange, NSW
Constructed City, Plimsoll Gallery, Hobart, touring exhibition to NSW, Queensland and Victorian regional galleries
1994 Art Asia, Hong Kong
ARCO, Madrid, Spain
1993 Nepean Collection, Lewers Bequest and Penrith Regional Art Gallery, Sydney
Disparities, University Gallery, Melbourne University, Melbourne
21600 each 24 Hrs, installation, Canberra Travelodge, Canberra
1992 Recently Seen, McClelland Gallery, Melbourne
Paintings from the Margaret Stewart Endowment, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Domino 1, University Gallery, Melbourne University, Melbourne
COLLECTIONS
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra; Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney; National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne; Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide; McClelland Regional Gallery, Melbourne; Rockhampton Regional Gallery, Queensland; Artbank, Sydney; University of Sydney Power Foundation, 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); KingÕs School, Sydney; Campbelltown City Art Gallery, Sydney; Trinity College, Melbourne. Corporate and private collections in Australia, United States, Spain, Germany, India, Japan, Canada
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Victoria Hynes, 'Two Up: Victoria Hynes Interviews Lyndell Brown and Charles Green', Australian Art Review, 10 (March-June 2006), 56-59.
Lyndell Brown and Charles Green, 'In Defense of Nature', ARC One Gallery, Melbourne, exh. catalogue with essay by the authors (September 2005), n.p.
Blair French, 'Tranquility', in Natasha Bullock (curator), Tranquility, exh. catalogue (Sydney: Art Gallery of New South Wales, May 2005), 2-4.
Laura Murray Cree, 'The Waves', in Bridget Pirrie (curator), The Waves, exh. catalogue (Sydney: GRANTPIRRIE Gallery, 2003), 3.
Alex Miller, 'The Artist as Magician', Meanjin, vol. 62, no. 2 (2003), Special Issue: Portraits of the Artist, 41-58.
Lyndell Brown and Charles Green, 'Self-Portrait: Sanctuary.' Art and Australia, vol. 40, no. 2 (Summer 2002), 248-249.
Anthony White, 'Technique and Memory', in Eldorado, exh. catalogue (Melbourne: Arc 1 Gallery, 2003), 3.
Peter Conrad (2003), At Home in Australia (Canberra: Thames & Hudson and the National Gallery of Australia, 2003), 246-247.
Lyndell Brown, 'Arcadia', in Anurendra Jagadeva (curator), Arcadia, exh. catalogue (Melbourne: Monash University Faculty Gallery, 2003), 2-4.
Samela Harris, 'Lyndell Brown and Charles Green', Australian Art Collector 21, July 2002, 48-51.
Deborah Hart, 'Illusory worlds', in Deborah Hart, Tales of the Unexpected, curated exh. (Canberra: National Gallery of Australia, July 2002), 20-25.
M.A. Greenstein, 'Lyndell Brown/Charles Green', Atlas, exh. catalogue, (Sydney: GRANTPIRRIE Gallery, 2002).
Alex Miller, 'Sanctuary', in SanctuaryÑand other island fables, exh. catalogue (Melbourne: Herring Island Gallery, Parks Victoria, 2002), 1-22
Alex Miller, 'Art and Other Worlds', The Age Saturday Extra, 9 February 2002, 5-6
M.A. Greenstein, '20 July 2001; Los Angeles, California, U.S.A.', Indicium: Contemporary Australian Photomedia (Seoul: Insa Art Centre and Sydney: Penrith Regional Gallery, 2001), 6-13.
Helen McDonald, Erotic Ambiguities: The Female Nude in Art (London and New York: Routledge, 2001), 207-210.
Megan Dunn, 'Time after time', Pavement 42 (New Zealand), Aug.-Sept. 2000, 60.
Peter Nagy, 'Boundlessly Various and Everything Simultaneously' exhibition catalogue, (New York: Bose Pacia Modern, 2000).
Jeanette Hoorn, 'Lyndell Brown and Charles Green', in Laura Murray Cree (ed.) Australian Painting Now (Sydney: Craftsman House, 2000), 72-75 and cover.
'Days of their lives', The Australian Review of Books, vol. 4, no. 9, cover illustration.
Nikos Papastergiardis, 'Trompe l'oeil: under the signs of everything', Towards a Theory of Everything, Sydney: Australian Centre for Photography, 1999, 2-10.
Tom Nicholson, 'Archives after the seventies and after', Artlink 19/1, March 1999, 63-65.
Jeanette Hoorn, 'The Desiring Phantom: Contemplating the Art of Lyndell Brown and Charles Green', Art and Australia, vol. 35, no. 3, April 1998, 374-381.
Elizabeth Cross, Robert Nelson, Southern Reflections, exhibition catalogue essays, Stockholm: Kulturhuset, 1998. Elizabeth Cross, 'Southern Reflections', 7-13; Robert Nelson, 'Lyndell Brown/Charles Green', 32-33.
Juliana Engberg, 'The Lovers', catalogue essay, Museum of Modern Art, Heide, Melbourne, November 1995.
Natalie King, 'Constructed City', catalogue essay, Plimsoll Gallery, Hobart, October 1995.
Alan Krell, catalogue essay, Annandale Galleries, Sydney, September 1993.
Artists' statement, 13 Verity Street Gallery, Melbourne, April 1993.
Robert Nelson, 'Una Selva Lucida', catalogue essay, Annandale Galleries, Sydney, March 1992.
SELECTED EXHIBITION REVIEWS
Peter Hill, 'Somewhere in a gallery far, far away', The Age, 8 June 2005, Metro, 10.
Michael Reid, 'Pictures worth more than 1000 whirrs', The Australian, 25 February 2004, 14.
Leeny Ann Low, 'Nature's Own: The Waves', Sydney Morning Herald, 8 November 2003, Forty-eight hours, 12.
Peter Hill, 'Perfect Partners', Sydney Morning Herald, 8 November 2003, Spectrum, 12-13.
Sasha Grishin, 'A Grab Bag of Very Good Melbourne Artists', Canberra Times, 4 March 2003, 9.
Megan Backhouse, 'Brown and Green', The Age, 22 February 2003, Review 7.
Peter Hill, 'Moon Shots', The Sydney Morning Herald, 17 Jan. 2003, Metro 26.
Peter Hill, 'Spaced out', Photofile (April 2003).
Sasha Grishin, 'Flights of fantasy into an alternative reality', Canberra Times, July 2002.
Peter Robinson, 'Unexpected theatrical twist to artistic tales', Canberra Times, 13 July 2002, 7.
Victoria Hynes, 'Critics Picks: Lyndell Brown and Charles Green', Sydney Morning Herald, 17 May 2002, 27.
Kim Levin, 'Boundlessly Various and Everything Simultaneously', Village Voice, 27 June 2000.
Holland Cotter, 'Boundlessly Various and Everything Simultaneously', New York Times, 7 July 2000, 31.
Robert Rooney, 'In the spirit of collaboration and archivism', The Australian, 28 May 1999, 12.
Robert Nelson, 'Capturing images of abduction', The Age, 6 October 1999, 6.
Robyn McKenzie, 'Creative Insights', Herald Sun, 30 March 1998, 96.
Harald Flor, 'Australshe monstre ('Southern Reflection')', Dagbladet (Oslo), 5 Aug. 1998, 5.
Lotte Sanberg, 'Mapping a different terrain', Aftenposten (Oslo), 4 Aug, 1998.
Crispin Ahlstršm, 'Tradition and pioneering spirit without any kangaroos,',Gštesborgs Posten (Gothenberg), 30 March 1998.
Jessica Kempe, 'It is far between the continents', Dagens Nyetar, 8 April 1998, B 2.
Eva Runefelt, 'Out of Australia's living heart', Svenska Dagbladet, 29 March 1998, 17.
Asa Wall, 'Konst fšdd ur sand', Svenska Dagbladet, 14 March 1998.
Terry Ingram, 'Sombre Swedes see You Beaut Country', Australian Financial Review, 21 May 1998, 33.
Peter Hill, 'Welcome to our Nightmare', The Bulletin, 13 Feb, 1996, 72-73.
Carolyn Crossley, 'A gloomy view', Art Monthly 93, October 1996, 25-26 and cover illustration.
Robert Rooney, 'A romp through the world of romance', The Weekend Australian, 22 Dec. 1995, 10.
Robert Nelson, 'A little temple of Klio', The Age, 20 Sept. 1995, 14.
Simon Plant, 'Connubial Canvases', The Weekend Herald Sun, 25 Nov. 1995, 15.
Robert Nelson, 'Separate talents merge within a single medium', The Age, 23 Nov, 1994, 27.
Robert Nelson, 'The Arts Year in Review', The Age, Dec, 1994, 28.
Mary Lou Jelbart, 'Colourful couple', Herald Sun, 30 Nov. 1994, 59.
Mary Lou Jelbart, ',Visual scene needs new look', Herald Sun, 22 Dec. 1994, 42.
Robert Rooney, ',Icons for a busy world', The Weekend Australian, April 17, 1993, 13.
Elwyn Lynn, 'Loners in warm climes', The Weekend Australian, Sept. 25, 1993, 16.
Elwyn Lynn, 'Renaissance Resurrections', The Weekend Australian, March 21, 1992, 11.
Robert Rooney, 'When friendship enters the picture', The Weekend Australian, August 1, 1992, 13.
Robert Schubert, 'Domino 1: Collaborations between artists', Agenda 25, October 1992, 11.
Christopher Heathcote, 'The rewards of creative deliberation', The Age, March 4, 1992, 14.
LYNDELL BROWN
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
1991 Ubirr, Photographs by Stephen Wickham; Text by Charles Green, William Mora Gallery, Melbourne, and Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney
1989 Pinacotheca, Melbourne
1987 Pinacotheca, Melbourne
1985 Pinacotheca, Melbourne
1982 Pinacotheca, Melbourne
1979 Powell Street Gallery, Melbourne
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
1991 Images of Fantasy and the Surreal, Heide Park Art Gallery, Melbourne
From the Landscape, Museum of Contemporary Art, Brisbane
1990 Greenpeace, Linden Gallery, Melbourne
100 artists against animal experimentation, Deutscher Brunswick Street, Melbourne
1989 Heidelberg and Heritage, Linden Gallery, Melbourne
1988 Pinacotheca, Melbourne
50 Artists, Art/Craft 1988, Royal Showgrounds, Melbourne
1987 Bright Abyss, George Paton Gallery, Melbourne
1983 Seven Artists, Victorian College of the Arts Gallery, Melbourne
1981-83 Prints 1981-83, Victorian Print Workshop, Melbourne
1981 Freepost Airshow, Dalby Art Centre and Shepparton Regional Art Gallery.
Eight Artists, Trades Hall Gallery, Melbourne
1980 Maps and Charts, C.A.S. Gallery, Adelaide
1979 Young Artists, Powell Street Gallery, Melbourne
1978 Quarks and strangeness, Ray Hughes Gallery, Brisbane
1973 Five Art Schools, George Paton Gallery, Melbourne
STUDIES
1999 Commenced Ph.D. at the College of Fine Arts, UNSW
1992 Graduated M.F.A. (Painting), Victorian College of the Arts by full-time studio research and exhibition with minor thesis, The Copy and the Fake, as partial fulfilment
1988 Graduated B.A. (Fine Art) with Distinction, Victorian College of the Arts
AWARDS
2002 New Work Grant, Visual Arts/Craft Fund, Australia Council.
Arts Development Grant, Arts Victoria
1997 Asialink/Sanskriti Residency, Delhi
Gunnery Studio Residency, Woolloomooloo
1995 Power Institute Studio, CitŽ des Arts, Paris
King's School Art Prize, Sydney
Overseas Development Grant, VACB, Australia Council
1993 Visiting Research Fellow, Faculty of Visual and Performing Arts, University of Western Sydney, Nepean
1992 Dr David Rosenthal Award, VCA
1988 Trustees of the National Gallery of Victoria Acquisitive Award
CHARLES GREEN
STUDIES
1998 Ph.D., University of Melbourne. Dissertation: 'Thief in the Attic: Artistic Collaborations and Modified Identities in International Art after 1968'
1993 M.A. (Visual Arts), Monash University. Studio and thesis submission. Thesis: 'Peripheral Vision: Abstract Painting and Criticism in Australia during the 1980s'
1987 B.A. (Hons), University of Melbourne. Honours Thesis: 'The arrival of neo-expressionism in Australia'
1981 Bachelor of Arts (Fine Art), Victorian College of the Arts
1980 Diploma in Education, Melbourne State College
1973 Diploma of Art (Painting), National Gallery Art School, Melbourne
ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS
2004 Associate Professor and Reader in contemporary Art, School of Art History, Cinema, Classical Studies and Archaeology, the University of Melbourne
2001 Dr Charles Green is the Senior Lecturer in Contemporary Art, School of Art History, Cinema, Classical Studies and Archaeology, the University of Melbourne, and Adjunct Senior Curator of 20th-21st Century Art, National Gallery of Victoria
1998-2000 Lecturer, School of Art History and Theory, College of Fine Arts, University of New South Wales.
1993-98 Tutor, School of Fine Arts, Classical Studies and Archaeology, University of Melbourne
1997-98 Part-time lecturer in research methods to Honours students, Faculty of Art and Design, Monash University
1994-95 Part-time lecturer in research methods to postgraduate students, Faculty of Art, RMIT
1994 Part-time lecturer in art history, coordinating 3rd year studies, Faculty of Art, RMIT Bundoora
1990 Part-time studio lecturer, School of Art, Prahran College of Advanced Education
1981-92 Lecturer, Department of Art, Box Hill College of TAFE
AWARDS, GRANTS AND SCHOLARSHIPS
2005 Melbourne Research Grant, University of Melbourne
Arts Faculty Research Grant, University of Melbourne
2004 Presentation Grant, Visual Arts/Craft Fund, Australia Council
Gold Medal, Bangladesh Biennale, Dacca, Bangladesh
Conference Grant, Humanities Research Centre, ANU
2003 University of Melbourne Industry Seed Funding Grant
2002 ITMM Grant, University of Melbourne
New Work Grant, Visual Arts/Craft Fund, Australia Council
Arts Development Grant, Arts Victoria
'Horizons' Parks Victoria Residency
1999 Travelling Fellowship, Australian Centre for the Humanities
Large Grant, Australian Research Council (to write a critical history of Australian art after 1968; three year research grant)
1998 Small ARC Grant, The University of New South Wales
School of Graduate Studies Grant, University of Melbourne
Gunnery Studio Residency, Woolloomooloo
1997 Asialink/Sanskriti Residency, Delhi (three month research residency)
1996 University of Melbourne Arts Faculty Travel Grant, University of Melbourne School of Graduate Studies Travel Grant, Fine Art Department Travel Grant.
1995 Power Institute Studio, CitŽ des Arts, Paris, late 1995-1996 (six month research residency)
King's School Art Prize, Sydney
Ian Potter Foundation Grant (to assist with publication of Peripheral Vision)
1994-98 Australian Postgraduate Award (three year scholarship)
1993 Visiting Fellow, Faculty of Visual and Performing Arts, University of Western Sydney Nepean (three month research residency)
1992 Fellowship Grant for Art Criticism, VACF, Australia Council (one year research fellowship to write Peripheral Vision)
1989 Artist Development Grant, VACF, Australia Council
1988 Winner, '50 Artists' Travelling Award, Melbourne
1973 Sir Lindsay Clark Award, National Gallery Art School
1971 UNESCO AIEE National Award
ENVIRONMENTAL INSTALLATIONS
1978 Culture Grid, site installation, Mount Warning, New South Wales
1974-78 Culture Grid, site installation, Cape Schanck, Victoria
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Harriet Edquist, 'Charles Green', catalogue essay, Pinacotheca, April 1987.
Jennifer Phipps, 'Bright Abyss', catalogue essay, George Paton Gallery, July 1987.
Harriet Edquist, 'Southern Lights', Art and Australia, vol. 25, no. 2, Summer 1987, 228-234.
James Baker, 'From the Landscape', Museum of Contemporary Art, Brisbane, September 1991, 26.
SELECTED EXHIBITION REVIEWS
Bernard Hoffert, 'Untitled colour with power to move', The Advocate, Sept. 2, 1981.
Ronald Millar, 'Innocent? Only on the surface', The Herald, May 13, 1982.
Robert Rooney, 'An old boys' reunion of the arts', The Age, May 26, 1982.
Gary Catalano, 'A commitment to the traditional', The Age, August 18, 1987, 14.
Ronald Millar, 'Dada's respectable end', The Herald, May 18, 1987.
Gary Catalano, 'Discourse is echoed here', The Age, July 15, 1987, 14.
Robert Rooney, 'Shining brightly amongst the ennui', The Australian, July 18, 1987, Weekend 12.
Christopher Heathcote, 'Melbourne commentary', Art Monthly, July 1988.
Robert Rooney, 'Alternative fantasie', The Australian, July 9, 1988, Weekend 12.
Christopher Heathcote, 'Sets and series; Robinson; Green', Art Monthly, July 1988, 13-14.
Gary Catalano, 'Landscapes of mind travel', The Age, July 9, 1989, 14 |
