Why do cockneys say gordon bennett?
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John Citizen ‘Eddie Mabo’ 1995
Queensland-born artist Gordon Bennett (1955–2014) was deeply engaged with questions of identity, perception and the construction of history, and made a profound and ongoing contribution to contemporary art in Australia and internationally.
To me, the image of Eddie Mabo stood like the eye of a storm, calmly asserting his rights while all around him the storm, a war of words and rhetoric, raged. Gordon Bennett
A riot is the language of the unheard. Martin Luther King[1]
Bennett developed a unique form of appropriation and is known for his layering and repetition of elements from paintings by artists such as Kazimir Malevich, Piet Mondrian, Philip Guston, Margaret Preston and Jackson Pollock, as well as his sustained dialogue with the work of Haitian–American artist Jean-Michel Basquiat. These exchanges and excavations enabled Bennett to address the legacies of Western art and its relationship to colonial perspectives on non-Western cultures. One previously unexamined intersection is with the work of American artist David Hammons.
On 2 June 2020
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Gordon Bennett (artist)
Australian artist (1955–2014)
Gordon Bennett | |
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| Born | 9 October 1955 (1955-10-09) Monto, Queensland, Australia |
| Died | 3 June 2014(2014-06-03) (aged 58) |
| Nationality | Australian |
| Education | Queensland College of Art |
| Known for | Painting, printmaking |
| Movement | Urban indigenous art |
| Awards | Moët & Chandon Australian Art Fellowship (1991) John McCaughey Memorial Art Prize (1997) |
Gordon Bennett (9 October 1955 – 3 June 2014)[1] was an Birri Gubba and Darumbalartist of Aboriginal and Anglo-Celtic descent.[2] Born in Monto, Queensland, Bennett was a significant figure in contemporary Indigenous Australian art.
Early life
Born in Monto, Queensland, in 1955, of Anglo-Celtic and Aboriginal ancestry,[3] Gordon Bennett grew up in Victoria from the age of four, when his family moved back to Queensland, to the town of Nambour.[4] He attended Nambour State High School.[1] He left school at fifteen and worked in a variety of trades[4] before undertaking
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Gordon Bennett
Lived and worked Brisbane
2017
AUSLAN Transcript
Gordon Bennett's large scale, vibrantly coloured, abstract canvases hang in the main entrance of the Art Gallery of New South Wales. These works look incredibly contemporary. They have this sort of quiet, expressive painterly style with these forms, which is sort of blown up, almost futuristic looking at times, but they're actually based on some 1920s, very small designs by the Australian artist, Margaret Preston. Margaret Preston published these designs in a magazine called Art in Australia in the 1920s and very early 1930s and these designs were actually taken from Aboriginal shields, Aboriginal artworks and they were appropriated by Preston. Preston used these designs in her practise at the time as she was seeking to find a language for Australia, a distinctive, cultural language, one she describes as being native to Australia.
While she acknowledged the regions where these items came from that she took the designs from, she never acknowledged the individual makers or artists of the works, so she
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