Charles Green & Lyndell Brown with one of their works on display in Civilization: The Way We Live Now at NGV Australia.
LYNDELL BROWN & CHARLES GREEN are featured in the latest edition of NGV magazine. In an edited transcript of a conversation that took place in April this year, Charles & Lyndell discuss the role of artists on war missions and their experiences in wartime.
LB: Our works are what you could call ‘slow art’. They are often finely worked, detailed realist paintings, and they take us a long time to do in the studio. We weren’t keen on the idea of working like that in difficult situations. We were in the desert conditions of Iraq and Afghanistan.
CG: We were possibly the first Australian official war artists to resist the idea of painting and drawing on the spot. It’s an immensely complicated process to get artists into those zones and a place where they can work. We. told them we could go in with cameras