Charles Green
I am Professor of Contemporary Art in the School of Culture and Communication at the University of Melbourne. Author of Peripheral Vision (Craftsman House, 1996), The Third Hand (U Minnesota Press, 2001), I completed a history of biennials in contemporary art, Biennials, Triennials and Documenta (Blackwell Wiley, 2016), with Professor Anthony Gardner (Oxford University), then When Modern Became Contemporary Art: The Idea of Australian Art, 1962-1988 (London: Routledge, 2024), with Dr Heather Barker
Lyndell Brown and Charles Green have worked in collaboration as one artist since 1989. We are based in regional Victoria. Our works are included in most of Australia’s public art collections and many private and corporate collections. In 2007, we were Australia’s Official War Artists, deployed to Afghanistan and Iraq, and between 2011 and 2019 worked on follow-up collaborations with artist Jon Cattapan (assisted by two Australian Research Council Discovery Grant) about the aftermath of Australia’s wars since Vietnam, which the three artists exhibited in Melbourne across two galleries in late 2014, accompanied by a book (Framing Conflict: Contemporary War and Aftermath, Macmillan, 2014). Dr Lyndell Brown is an Honorary Research Fellow in the Centre for Visual Art at the University of Melbourne.
Phone: +61 3 8344 4000
Address: Professor Charles Green,
Art History, School of Culture and Communication
University of Melbourne
Victoria 3010 Australia
Lyndell Brown and Charles Green have worked in collaboration as one artist since 1989. We are based in regional Victoria. Our works are included in most of Australia’s public art collections and many private and corporate collections. In 2007, we were Australia’s Official War Artists, deployed to Afghanistan and Iraq, and between 2011 and 2019 worked on follow-up collaborations with artist Jon Cattapan (assisted by two Australian Research Council Discovery Grant) about the aftermath of Australia’s wars since Vietnam, which the three artists exhibited in Melbourne across two galleries in late 2014, accompanied by a book (Framing Conflict: Contemporary War and Aftermath, Macmillan, 2014). Dr Lyndell Brown is an Honorary Research Fellow in the Centre for Visual Art at the University of Melbourne.
Phone: +61 3 8344 4000
Address: Professor Charles Green,
Art History, School of Culture and Communication
University of Melbourne
Victoria 3010 Australia
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The exhibition contains a work by Lyndell Brown and Charles Green
1788–1960, and 1988, the year of the Australian Bicentenary. The article explores what changed in these years when art historians, critics, and curators, albeit belatedly and reluctantly, finally began to acknowledge the great contemporary Aboriginal painting that had long been in many artists’ sights as inspiration and model, and in plain view on display in the so-called primitive cultures’ sections of state museums. It argues that this was because it did not seem part of the national story of art.