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Lyndell Brown/Charles Green and Jon Cattapan, War and peace #11: night vision, 2014, oil and acrylic on digital print on duraclear film, 104 x 108 cm

Lyndell Brown/Charles Green and Jon Cattapan, ‘Spook country’, Station and ARC One, 21st August–13th September 2014

On a recent visit to the Australian War Memorial, I was surprised at the visual density of ‘classic’ war art. In the paintings of George Lambert (World War I) and Ivor Hele (World War II), the combat is hand-to-hand. The viewer is in the thick of it, given the now-familiar first-person shooter point of view. […]

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