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Exhibitions

Wednesday 5 August
2026

Adam Elliot

Making Memoir of a Snail

ACMI
Thursday 8 August – Sunday 1 November

Group Show

The Chelsea Hotel Years 1967–69

Heide Museum of Modern Art
Saturday 28 February – Sunday 16 August

Badra Aji

Get the boy a dog and call it a day

Heide Museum of Modern Art
Saturday 14 March – Sunday 16 August

Group Show

Inside the Mirage

TarraWarra Museum of Art
Saturday 25 July – Sunday 1 November

Ray Thomas

Yeerung's Journey

Koorie Heritage Trust
Saturday 30 May – Sunday 9 August

Lygin Ang

Window Seat

Benalla Art Gallery
Monday 1 June – Monday 31 August

Christopher Pyett

Years of Colour

McClelland Gallery
Saturday 27 June – Sunday 25 October

Group Show

Spilt Milk (and hard honey)

West Space
Saturday 13 June – Saturday 8 August

Grant Nimmo

Spirits of the Green Woods

Daine Singer
Saturday 18 July – Saturday 22 August

Matt Arbuckle

Public Capacity

Daine Singer
Saturday 18 July – Saturday 22 August

Moya McKenna

Picture in a window

Neon Parc
Friday 31 July – Saturday 5 September

Eliza Hutchison

When are the aliens coming?

CAVES Gallery
Saturday 1 August – Saturday 22 August

Lyndell Brown and Charles Green

The Solid Mandala

Arc One Gallery
Wednesday 8 July – Saturday 15 August

Group Show

EMERGENCE[Y]

Melbourne Science Gallery
Saturday 6 June – Saturday 5 December

Martin Smith

The Elegant Hope

Sophie Gannon Gallery
Tuesday 21 July – Saturday 8 August

Lyndell Brown and Charles Green

The Solid Mandala

Arc One Gallery
Wednesday 8 July – Saturday 15 August

LYNDELL BROWN and CHARLES GREEN, an iconic collaborative artistic duo since 1989, are renowned for crafting bravura compositions using astonishing trompe l’oeil techniques. Their process involves intricate layering, modification, and the replication of carefully chosen found images, selected for their visual charge and historical context. For decades, the due has embarked on sincere investigations guided by art history, global culture, and human turmoil. Brown and Green make art for our turbulent world.

Cosmopolitanism, the concept of a global, communal culture, is significant to Brown & Green’s collaboration. This is why their sophisticated quotation of found images are drawn from a rich archive of world visual history. They have painted the Apollo 11 moon landing from NASA’s documentation images since the late 1990s, an iconic example of human effort and performance. The artists are interested in both iconic and specific expressions of human culture. Many reappearing symbols and snapshots are selected from the artists personal family history or travels they have made to important historical sites.

The duo was an inspired choice for Official War Artists, appointed in 2007 to document the complex conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq. Brown & Green are conscious of the tensions between documenting and representing, both being crucial to historical connections that they are making and that others have not seen before. For these artists, there is no singular event in history, and this is evident in their powerful, constructed tableaus. Brown and Green are interested in addressing the most difficult problems that face humanity. In their profound art they preserve a role for the “fragile emotional vision” of art and culture among the cascade of catastrophic turbulence.

In their most recent work, their response to 2020 is coupled with images of distance and atmospheric tension, hopelessness and hope. All evoked through their signature, fragmented style with history pinned in place by our contemporary world-shift. Uniquely qualified to tackle this seismic moment in global history, Brown & Green have created the strongest and most thoughtful response to our fraught times yet seen in Australian art. As they say: “we have always painted paintings of the past surviving into the present.”

Location

Arc One Gallery
45 Flinders Ln, Melbourne VIC 3000, Australia

Date

Wednesday 8 July – Saturday 15 August

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Website

https://arcone.com.au/brown-green-the-solid-mandala-2026

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Exhibitions

Wednesday 5 August
2026

Adam Elliot

Making Memoir of a Snail

ACMI
Thursday 8 August – Sunday 1 November

Group Show

The Chelsea Hotel Years 1967–69

Heide Museum of Modern Art
Saturday 28 February – Sunday 16 August

Badra Aji

Get the boy a dog and call it a day

Heide Museum of Modern Art
Saturday 14 March – Sunday 16 August

Group Show

Inside the Mirage

TarraWarra Museum of Art
Saturday 25 July – Sunday 1 November

Ray Thomas

Yeerung's Journey

Koorie Heritage Trust
Saturday 30 May – Sunday 9 August

Lygin Ang

Window Seat

Benalla Art Gallery
Monday 1 June – Monday 31 August

Christopher Pyett

Years of Colour

McClelland Gallery
Saturday 27 June – Sunday 25 October

Group Show

Spilt Milk (and hard honey)

West Space
Saturday 13 June – Saturday 8 August

Grant Nimmo

Spirits of the Green Woods

Daine Singer
Saturday 18 July – Saturday 22 August

Matt Arbuckle

Public Capacity

Daine Singer
Saturday 18 July – Saturday 22 August

Moya McKenna

Picture in a window

Neon Parc
Friday 31 July – Saturday 5 September

Eliza Hutchison

When are the aliens coming?

CAVES Gallery
Saturday 1 August – Saturday 22 August

Lyndell Brown and Charles Green

The Solid Mandala

Arc One Gallery
Wednesday 8 July – Saturday 15 August

Group Show

EMERGENCE[Y]

Melbourne Science Gallery
Saturday 6 June – Saturday 5 December

Martin Smith

The Elegant Hope

Sophie Gannon Gallery
Tuesday 21 July – Saturday 8 August

Lyndell Brown and Charles Green

The Solid Mandala

Arc One Gallery
Wednesday 8 July – Saturday 15 August

LYNDELL BROWN and CHARLES GREEN, an iconic collaborative artistic duo since 1989, are renowned for crafting bravura compositions using astonishing trompe l’oeil techniques. Their process involves intricate layering, modification, and the replication of carefully chosen found images, selected for their visual charge and historical context. For decades, the due has embarked on sincere investigations guided by art history, global culture, and human turmoil. Brown and Green make art for our turbulent world.

Cosmopolitanism, the concept of a global, communal culture, is significant to Brown & Green’s collaboration. This is why their sophisticated quotation of found images are drawn from a rich archive of world visual history. They have painted the Apollo 11 moon landing from NASA’s documentation images since the late 1990s, an iconic example of human effort and performance. The artists are interested in both iconic and specific expressions of human culture. Many reappearing symbols and snapshots are selected from the artists personal family history or travels they have made to important historical sites.

The duo was an inspired choice for Official War Artists, appointed in 2007 to document the complex conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq. Brown & Green are conscious of the tensions between documenting and representing, both being crucial to historical connections that they are making and that others have not seen before. For these artists, there is no singular event in history, and this is evident in their powerful, constructed tableaus. Brown and Green are interested in addressing the most difficult problems that face humanity. In their profound art they preserve a role for the “fragile emotional vision” of art and culture among the cascade of catastrophic turbulence.

In their most recent work, their response to 2020 is coupled with images of distance and atmospheric tension, hopelessness and hope. All evoked through their signature, fragmented style with history pinned in place by our contemporary world-shift. Uniquely qualified to tackle this seismic moment in global history, Brown & Green have created the strongest and most thoughtful response to our fraught times yet seen in Australian art. As they say: “we have always painted paintings of the past surviving into the present.”

Location

Arc One Gallery
45 Flinders Ln, Melbourne VIC 3000, Australia

Date

Wednesday 8 July – Saturday 15 August

Save to Calendar

Website

https://arcone.com.au/brown-green-the-solid-mandala-2026

All exhibition content on this website has been sourced from the exhibiting gallery’s website or provided by other art enthusiasts. We do not own or seek to own any of this material. If you are concerned about any misuse of your content, please let us know here.

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