Lot 59

GrantPirrie, Sydney
Private collection, Melbourne

"Since 1989, Lyndell Brown and Charles Green have worked in collaboration. "We don't think of ourselves as separate artists any more, and we don't have a fixed division of labour, for we've never decided that one of us is better at painting something than the other. At different times you might walk into our studio and see us sitting side by side, each with tiny sable brushes, working away on the painful task of exactly copying different segments of a source photograph. At other periods we'll divide up who does what, quite definitely, over a whole series, but we don't explain who does what because we wouldn't ever want to work separately. We share the task of turning the paintings into photographs, working closely with our gifted printer, Sandra Barnard, who found the Duraclear film."
(Excerpt from Lyndell Brown and Charles Green, Statement for Sanctuary - and other island fables, Herring Island Environmental Sculpture Park, 2002)

RELATED WORK:
Lyndell Brown and Charles Green, The Waves, oil on linen, 122 x 122cm, Leonard Joel, Melbourne, 9 May 2022, lot 77.

© Courtesy of the Artists