Gordon Bennett Artist Essay

Gordon Bennett was born on 8 October 1955 in Monto, Queensland of Aboriginal and face/Scottish heritage. Bennett enrolled as a matureage student at Queensland College of Art in 1986 and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts (Fine Arts) score in 1988. Gordon Bennett is a contemporary cheatistryist and says his earlier art flex where influenced by his personal experiences. Bennetts work is defining Australian ending and Aboriginal History, he wanted to change the way Australia and the world cut Indigenous Australians. Bennett includes a focus on the role and power of language, including ocular representations, in shaping identity, culture, social issues and taradiddle.Bennetts work alludes to visual and oral violence of history of black and white relations, his scenes from outside Australia, deconstructing history and exposing the ideologies and structures that constrain history. Bennett works both in traditional easel paintings and in multi-media, Photography, printmaking, vide o, performance and installation. The fine and aesthetic strategies of postmodernism have had significant impact on the development of his art practice.His work is layered and complex and often incorporates images, styles or references drawn from sources such(prenominal) as social history text books, western art history and Indigenous art. The emphasis on making art about art which is the focus of his non-representational abstract paintings, contrasts clearly with the focus on social look back that was integral to Bennetts earlier work, and is intended to provoke viewers thought and opens up new possibilities for understanding the subjects he explores.