Gordon Bennett (artist)
Gordon Bennett (born October 8, 1955 in Monto , Queensland in Australia , † June 3, 2014 ) was an Aboriginal artist who lived and worked in Brisbane . He was a critical painter who depicted the colonial and post-colonial periods of British colonization in his works.
Life
Bennett did not learn that he was an Aboriginal person until he was 10 years old. After doing various jobs at a young age, he enrolled in the Queensland College of Art in Brisbane in 1986 and graduated in 1988 with a Bachelor of Arts (Fine Arts) degree. As early as 1991 he became the first Aboriginal artist to win the highly endowed " Moët & Chandon " award for young artists in Australia.
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Bennet worked both as a painter and photographer and as a manufacturer of printed matter, videos, performances and installations.
He caused a sensation in his exhibition in Melbourne, entitled Colonial / Post-colonial , in which he showed a work with a drunken white man whose dogs kill an Aborigine.
Gordon Bennett painted critical pictures of the history of Australia and dealt with British colonization. Gordon Bennett's first exhibition in 1989 made him internationally known as an artist, as he combined the complicated process of historical representation with questions of cultural and personal identity. He also looked at the colonial past and the post-colonial present. He did not give interviews or explanations about his paintings, but said that the art speaks for itself.
Although he used a variety of painting styles, be it hatching, dot painting or graffiti, he continued to develop his own style. The Iraq war and the terrorist act of September 11th in New York inspired him to further develop his style: in 2003 he showed a camouflage series in pictures for the first time , which became style-defining for him. In 1999 he started a pop art exhibition called John Citizen, the Australian Mister Average.
Since 1989 he has participated in more than 50 national and international solo exhibitions. His pictures have been shown at the Biennale in Sydney, Venice, Kwangju, Shanghai and Cuba, in the United States of America, Great Britain, Germany, Austria, the Czech Republic (Prague), Italy, Denmark, Canada, South Africa and Japan.
Web links
- Materials by and about Gordon Bennett (artist) in the documenta archive
- Four pictures by Gordon Bennett
- Image of Gordon Bennett with Truganini , Tasmania's last purebred Aboriginal, Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri and his father Gwoya Jungarai , depicted as an Aboriginal on an Australian coin and postage stamp; and portrayal of other prominent figures in Australian history. Available online
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.milanigallery.com.au/news/memoriam-gordon-bennett-1955-2014
- ↑ http://www.abc.net.au/rn/arts/sunmorn/stories/s1108576.htm
- ↑ http://www.ngv.vic.gov.au/gordonbennett/
- ↑ http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/04/27/1082831550074.html
- ↑ http://www.ngv.vic.gov.au/gordonbennett/education/intro.html
- ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from September 2, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bennett, Gordon |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Australian artist, Aboriginal |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 8, 1955 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Monto , Queensland |
| DATE OF DEATH | 3rd June 2014 |