View from Chinook, Helmand Province, Afghanistan

Accession Number ART93305
Collection type Art
Measurement Framed: 33 cm x 33 cm x 4.7 cm; Unframed: 31 cm x 31 cm
Object type Painting
Physical description oil on linen
Maker Brown, Lyndell
Green, Charles
Place made Australia: Victoria, Melbourne
Date made 2007
Conflict Afghanistan, 2001-2021
Copyright

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Description

View from Chinook chopper during supply mission flight to outpost in Helmand. In a 2008 interview Lyndell Brown explained: "It's an extraordinary thing to be hurtling through space, fifty feet off the ground - very low, very fast - across this rocky landscape."

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