Conway Bown
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Conway Bown is an Australian artist
specializing in aviation and military subjects. His other occupations include aviation consultancy and commercial helicopter and aviation pilot.
Bown was an official war artist
during the deployment of Australian Defence Forces in Iraq
in 2006.
He was a Chinook pilot in Iraq with the Australian Army in 2003.
Artist
An artist is a person engaged in one or more of any of a broad spectrum of activities related to creating art, practicing the arts and/or demonstrating an art. The common usage in both everyday speech and academic discourse is a practitioner in the visual arts only...
specializing in aviation and military subjects. His other occupations include aviation consultancy and commercial helicopter and aviation pilot.
Bown was an official war artist
War artist
A war artist depicts some aspect of war through art; this might be a pictorial record or it might commemorate how "war shapes lives." War artists have explored a visual and sensory dimension of war which is often absent in written histories or other accounts of warfare.- Definition and context:A...
during the deployment of Australian Defence Forces in Iraq
Iraq
Iraq ; officially the Republic of Iraq is a country in Western Asia spanning most of the northwestern end of the Zagros mountain range, the eastern part of the Syrian Desert and the northern part of the Arabian Desert....
in 2006.
He was a Chinook pilot in Iraq with the Australian Army in 2003.