Gordon Bennett

 

Vernon Ah Kee, Richard Bell, Gordon Bennett: Announcements on e-flux

Vernon Ah Kee, Gordon Bennett and Richard Bell have been included in the Espressioni: Fractual Expressions exhibition at Castello di Rivoli, Italy. The annoucement of e-flux can be found here. 

Gordon Bennett, Vernon Ah Kee: Panel: Artists after Gordon Bennett

The panel session Artists after Gordon Bennett: Speaking through Text/ Corresonding with the Past as part of the Power Institute’s lecture series is now viewable online here. The panel features Vernon Ah Kee, other artists and the editors of Gordon Bennett: Selected Writings, Angela Goddard and Tim Riley Walsh, to consider

GORDON BENNETT, VERNON AH KEE: PANEL FOR GORDON BENNETT: SELECTED WRITINGS

An online panel with artists discussing Gordon Bennett: Selected Writings will take place at 5pm on Thursday 7 October. Vernon Ah Kee will be in conversation with the co-editors and other artists. Register for the event here. 

Vernon Ah Kee, Gordon Bennett, Dale Harding, Judy Watson: Exhibition Review in The Financial Times

Vernon Ah Kee, Gordon Bennett, Dale Harding and Judy Watson, and the exhibition 'A Year in Art: Australia 1992' at the TATE Modern, London have been reviewed in The Financial Times. Read the article here. 

GORDON BENNETT, DALE HARDING, MADONNA STUANTON, JUDY WATSON, JEMIMA WYMAM: EXHIBITION AT GERTRUDE CONTEMPORARY, MELBOURNE

Gordon Bennett, Dale Harding, Madonna Stuanton, Judy Watson and Jemima Wyman have been included in the exhibition 'Octopus 21: On Fire' at Gertrude Contemporary, Melbourne. The exhibition runs from 26 June to 8 August 2021. More information can be found here.

Vernon Ah Kee, Gordon Bennett, Dale Harding, Peter Kennedy, Judy Watson: Exhibition review in The Guardian

Vernon Ah Kee, Gordom Benett, Dale Harding, Peter Kennedy and Judy Watson have all been discussed in a review in The Guardian of the exhibition 'A Year in Art: Australia 1992' at the TATE Modern, London. Read the review here. 

Gordon Bennett: Selected Writings Wins National Book Prize

'Gordon Bennett: Selected Writings' has been named Museum Australia Publication Design Awards Best Book for 2021. More information can be found here. 

Vernon Ah Kee, Gordon Bennett, Judy Watson: Exhibition review in The Sydney Morning Herald

Vernon Ah Kee, Gordon Bennett and Judy Watson have been discussed in the article 'New Tate exhibition isn't rewriting our history - but it aims to fill the gaps' in The Sydney Morning Herald for the exhibition they've been included in at the TATE Modern, London. Read the article here. 

Vernon Ah Kee, Gordon Bennett, Bonita Ely, Dale Harding, Peter Kennedy, Judy Watson: Exhibition at TATE Modern, London

Vernon Ah Kee, Gordon Bennett, Bonita Ely, Dale Harding, Peter Kennedy, Judy Watson have been included in the exhibition 'A Year in Art: Australia 1992' at the TATE Modern, London. The exhibition will run until Spring 2022. More information can be found here. 

Gordon Bennett: Article in Di'van

An article discussing the work of Gordon Bennett by Tim Riley Walsh has been published by Di'van. The article can be accessed online here. 

Gordon Bennett, Dale Harding, Madonna Staunton, Judy Watson, Tintin Wulia: On Fire at IMA

Gordon Bennett, Dale Harding, Madonna Staunton, Judy Watson and Tintin Wulia have been included in 'On Fire: Climate and Crisis' exhibition at the Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane. The exhibition will run from 30 Jan - 20 March 2021.

Gordon Bennett: Unfinished Business, QAGOMA Exhibition reviewed by Artlink

Gordon Bennett's exhibition Unfinished Business at QAGOMA has been reviewed in Artlink. Read the article here.

GORDON BENNETT: Publication of Selected Writings

 Griffith University Art Museum and Power Publications have published Gordon Bennett: Selected Works. More information can be found here.

Gordon Bennett: Unfinished Business, QAGOMA Exhibition reviewed in The Conversation

 Gordon Bennett's exhibition Unfinished Business at QAGOMA has been reviewed by Susan Best in The Conversation. Read the article here.

Gordon Bennett: Unfinished Business exhibition at QAGOMA

Unfinished Business: The Art of Gordon Bennett opens at the Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, on 7 November. The exhibition runs until 21 March 2021. More information, including exhibition events, can be found online here. 

Gordon Bennett, Gordon Hookey, Natalya Hughes: ArtGuide, The Abyss, GUAM

Gordon Bennett, Gordon Hookey, and Natalya Hughes' works in The Abyss: Strategies in Contemporary Art at Griffith University Art Museum, Brisbane, have been featured in Art Guide Australia in an article by Jane O'Sullivan. Read the article here.

Gordon Bennett, Louise Hearman, Gordon Hookey, Natalya Hughes, Jemima Wyman: The Abyss, Griffith University Art Museum

Gordon Bennett, Louse Hearman, Gordon Hookey, Natalya Hughes and Jemima Wyman will be included in The Abyss: Strategies in Contemporary Art at Griffith University Art Musuem, Brisbane. The exhibition will be on display from July 25 - 28 September 2019. More information can be found here.

Gordon Bennett, Eric Bridgeman, Ian Burn, Nigel Lendon: IN-Formalism, Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre, Sydney

Gordon Bennett, Eric Bridgeman, Ian Burn and Nigel Lendon will be included in IN-Formalism at the Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre in Sydney. The exhibition will run from 18 May 2019 to 30 June 2019. More information can be found here.  

Gordon Bennett, Judy Watson: 'Colony: Frontier Wars' NGV, Melbourne

Works by Gordon Bennett and Judy Watson have been included in Colony: Frontier Wars at the National Gallery of Victoria. The exhibition opens 15 March and runs until 2 September 2018. More information can be found here. 

TATE: 'Five Things to Know: Gordon Bennett'

TATE/MCA have produced a fact sheet on contemporary artist Gordon Bennett following their 2016 acquisition of Possession Island (Abstraction), 1991. The work is currently being displayed as part of Artist and Society: Citizens at the TATE Modern. Read the article here.

Richard Bell, Gordon Bennett, Aleks Danko, Dale Harding: Australian Collection Permanent Exhibtion, QAG, Brisbane

 The new permanent exhibition of QAGoMA's Australian Art collection includes major works by artists Richard Bell, Gordon Bennett and Aleks Danko, as well as a major commission from Dale Harding. The reconfigured Australian Art spaces capture major historical moments from first contact to colonisation, and exploration to immigration.

Gordon Bennett: 'Australian art and the Russian avant-garde', Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney

This October marks the 100th anniversary of the Russian Revolution in 1917, with the Art Gallery of New South Wales commemorating the anniversary with an exhibition Australian art and the Russian avant-garde. Works by artists such as Gordon Bennett demonstrate a strong engagement with iconic works by Kazimir Malevich (1878-1935) and Aleksander Rodchenko (1891-1956), as well as those by Varvara Stepanova (1894-1958) and Vladimir Tatlin (1885-1953). The exhibiti

Eugene Carchesio, Gordon Bennett, Tom Nicholson: 'Call of the Avant-Garde: Constructivism & Australian Art', Heide, Melbourne

For more than one hundred years, artists have drawn inspiration from the early twentieth-century avant-garde movement Constructivism. Call of the Avant-Garde: Constructivism & Australian Art at the Heide Museum of Modern Art is an extensive survey of over seventy artists and explores how Australian artists have responded to this ground breaking modernist movement and its enduring call upon their imaginations from the 1930s to the present day. The exhibition ru

I CAN SEE RUSSIA FROM HERE, TCB, Melbourne

The work of Gordon Bennett, Eugene Carchesio, Sam Cranstoun, Peter Kennedy, Nigel Lendon, Stuart Ringholt and Jemima Wyman features as part of I Can See Russia From Here, curated by Chelsea Hopper at TCB, Melbourne. The exhibition includes the works of Australian artists who reference, are influenced by, or engage a “Russian imaginary”, as this year marks the centenary of the Russian Revolution. The exhibition runs from Wednesday June 7 - Saturday June 24 2017.

Gordon Bennett, Eugene Carchesio, Rosslynd Piggott: 'Every Brilliant Eye: Australian Art of the 1990s' opens at NGV Ian Potter Centre

 Work by artists Gordon Bennett, Eugene Carchesio and Rosslynd Piggott can be seen at Every Brilliant Eye: Australian Art of the 1990s, an exhibition exploring a dynamic decade in Australian art. Drawn from the National Gallery of Victoria Collection, it provides an in depth look at a period characterised by dramatic change as artists adopted new technologies and increasingly heterogeneous approaches to making art.

THE DUST NEVER SETTLES: UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND ART MUSEUM, ST. LUCIA

'The Dust Never Settles' is a group exhibition at The University of Queensland Art Museum that draws on its collection to explore works by contemporary artists who probe at cultural, environmental and psychological histories that remain unresolved. The exhibition includes work by Khadim Ali, Richard Bell & Emory Douglas, Gordon Bennett, Bonita Ely, Dale Harding, Raquel Ormella, Luke Roberts and Judy Watson and runs from Wednesday 12 April to Sunday 30 July.

THE NATIONAL 2017: WEBSITE GOES LIVES

'The National' 2017 has launched its website dedicated to its upcoming triennial exhibition, profiling the artists featured including Khadim Ali, Richard Bell, Gordon Bennett, Dale Harding, Gordon Hookey, Tom Nicholson, Raquel Ormella, Khaled Sabsabi, and Jemima Wyman. The site also includes essays by the exhibition curators providing an introduction to the exhibition concept.

The National 2017

 In 2017 the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Carriageworks and Museum of Contemporary Art will present The National: New Australian Art. The National will showcase contemporary Australian art and includes new work by Khadim Ali, Gordon Bennett, Richard Bell, Dale Harding, Gordon Hookey, Tom Nicholson, Raquel Ormella, Khaled Sabsabi and Jemima Wyman. The National opens 30 March 2017.

GORDON BENNETT, IAN BURN, JUDY WATSON, SANDRA SELIG, LUKE ROBERTS, TIM JOHNSON, VERNON AH KEE, EUGENE CARCHESIO & STUART RINGHOLT: GOMA TURNS 10 & SUGAR SPIN

The work of Gordon Bennett, Ian Burn, Eugene Carchesio, Luke Roberts, Tim Johnson, Vernon Ah Kee, Sandra Selig and Stuart Ringholt features as part of 'Sugar Spin', a large-scale and ambitious exhibition featuring work from the QAGOMA collection and new commissions, such as Judy Watson's 'tow row' 2016. The exhibition is situated at the Gallery of Modern Art and is part of the Gallery's tenth birthday celebrations 'GOMA Turns 10'.

Gordon Bennett: Be Polite, Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts

BEYOND THE TOWER: UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND ART MUSEUM

The University of Queensland Art Museum celebrates its 40th year with the exhibition 'Beyond the tower: 40 years and counting', profiling the museum's significant collection. Curated by Director Campbell Gray and Curator Samantha Littley, the exhibition includes work by Madonna Staunton, Gordon Bennett, Eugene Carchesio, Jon Cattapan, Gordon Hookey, Khadim Ali, Richard Bell, Aleks Danko, Judy Watson, Luke Roberts, and Tim Johnson.

GORDON BENNETT & KHALED SABSABI: YINCHUAN BIENNALE

Work by Gordon Bennett and Khaled Sabsabi features as part of the first Yinchuan Biennale, opening at the Museum of Contemporary Art Yinchuan on 9 September. Curated by Bose Krishnamachari, the Biennale will included 74 artists from 33 countries and is structured by the theme 'For an Image, Faster Than Light'. The Biennale runs until 18 December. Read more. 

Gordon Bennett @ CCP Gordon Bennett and John Citizen: Moving Images, Part One

Curated by Helen Hughes and Chiara Scafidi

Tate-MCA Acquisition of Gordon Bennett, Judy Watson and Vernon Ah Kee

Gordon Bennett & Vernon Ah Kee: Black, White and Restive, Newcastle Art Gallery

With Secrecy and Despatch - Judy Watson, Dale Harding, Gordon Bennett and Vernon Ah Kee

The unacknowledged histories of frontier violence and genocide are explored in a major new international exhibition at the Campbelltown Arts Centre. With a focus on the deterioration of relations between British settlers and indigenous peoples, this exhibition traces the beginning of a long and bloody history which begins with Governor Macquarie, April 17, 1816.

Gordon Bennett & Vernon Ah Kee: Brutal Truths

Major work by Gordon Bennett and a selection of significant recent works by Vernon Ah Kee are currently on display at Griffith Univeristy Art Gallery, South Bank as part of the exhibition 'Brutal Truths'. The exhibition runs until 9 April 2016, for further details please read more.

GORDON BENNETT: Be Polite, IMA, Brisbane

Be Polite, an exhibition of works on paper by Gordon Bennett opens 24 October 2015 at the Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane. The exhibition will showcase a number of works that have never been seen. It will run until 20 December 2015. Read more.

GORDON BENNETT & JUDY WATSON: 21, CASULA POWERHOUSE

Significant works by Judy Watson and the late Gordon Bennett feature as part of the large scale exhibition 21, celebrating Casula Powerhouse's 21st birthday. The exhibition opens 17 October and runs until 29 November. Read more. 

RICHARD BELL, GORDON BENNETT, CHRISTIAN CAPURRO, EUGENE CARCHESIO, LUCY GRIGGS, STUART RINGHOLT, KHALED SABSABI & MADONNA STAUNTON, 9/11, MOANA, PERTH

Work by Richard Bell, Gordon Bennett, Chrisitian Capurro, Eugene Carchesio, Lucy Griggs, Stuart Ringholt, Khaled Sabsabi and Madonna Staunton is currently on display as part of 9/11 at MOANA project Space, Perth until 12 September 2015. Curated by Chelsea Hopper the exhibition reflects on the impact of the events of September 11 through the work of a selection of contemporary Australian and international artists.

GORDON BENNETT: CROSS POSE, UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND ART MUSEUM

The work of Gordon Bennett is included in an upcoming group exhibition 'Cross Pose: Body language against the grain' at the University of Queensland Art Museum, Brisbane. Curated by Dr Sally Butler, the exhibition brings together Australian artworks from The University of Queensland Art Collection that draw on the human body as expressions of cross-cultural subjectivities and visual politics. The exhibition runs 15 May to 9 August.

TAKING IT ALL AWAY, MCA COLLECTION: MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART AUSTRALIA

Taking it all away presents works drawn from the Museum of Contemporary Art Collection that explore the different effects of erasure, abstraction and the social impact of art. Featuring work by Gordon Bennett, Christian Capurro, Robert Hunter and Stuart Ringholt, the exhibition considers shared ideals and utopias, as well as art's agency in society.

GORDON BENNETT: GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY OUTSTANDING ALUMNUS OF THE YEAR 2014

Gordon Bennett was recognised for his major contribution to Australian art and the country's cultural life at the Griffith University 2014 Alumni Awards on Friday 17 October 2014. Gordon was awarded posthumously the Griffith University Arts, Education and Law Outstanding Alumnus of the Year 2014 and Griffith University Queensland College of Art Outstanding Alumnus of the Year 2014.

GORDON BENNETT: AN APPETITE FOR PAINTING, NATIONAL MUSEUM OF OSLO

The work of Gordon Bennett features in 'An Appetite for Painting' at the National Museum in Oslo, Norway. The exhibition runs until 4 January 2015. Read more about the exhibition. 

GORDON BENNETT: IAN MCLEAN ON BENNETT'S LIFE AND ART

ABC Arts online has published Professor Ian McLean's obituary on the life and art of Gordon Bennett. 'Gordon Bennett, an artist who scaled the heights of the art world', recalls McLean's first interactions with Bennett's work and his core position within Australian art history.

TRIBUTES TO GORDON BENNETT

A selection of tributes to the art and life of Gordon Bennett have been recently published.

IN MEMORIAM GORDON BENNETT 1955 - 2014