Gordon Bennett, Karen Black and Kate Smith in Thresholds at Murray Art Museum Albury
Artworks by Gordon Bennett, Karen Black and Kate Smith are included in the group exhibition Thresholds currently on show at the Murray Art Museum Albury (MAMA), NSW.
This exhibition showcases recent museum acquisitions, placing new works in dialogue with longstanding fixtures that represent the collection’s strengths. Thresholds considers to a process-led development of collecting and the variables of working with collections, contemplating where artworks can exist as portals to an ever-expanding world of unexpected sites and unanticipated tangents.
Thresholds Murray Art Museum Albury (MAMA), NSW 23 February – 10 June 2024
Sutton Gallery is pleased to present Gordon Bennett: Thin Lines, fourteen abstract line paintings on paper from the highly acclaimed contemporary artist Gordon Bennett.
The presentation comprises a series of paintings exhibited at Melbourne Art Fair for the first time in their history, twenty years on from their production in February 2004, and ten years on from the artist’s untimely passing.
Melbourne Art Fair Booth C2 Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre 22–25 February
Gordon Bennett, ‘From the Collection: Gordon Bennett’ at the Museum of Brisbane
The Museum of Brisbane is currently presenting a selection of works by Gordon Bennet from their collection of the late artist. Highlighting two recent acquisitions by the museum, this intimate presentation features paintings from the artist’s iconic interior series alongside striking works on paper.
From The Collection: Gordon Bennett Museum of Brisbane 5 August 2023–21 January 2024
Gordon Bennett: Selected Writings wins MAPDA Best Book for 2021
Gordon Bennett: Selected Writings was named Museums Australia Publication Design Awards (MAPDA) Best Book for 2021 at the annual Australian Museums and Galleries Association (AMaGA) national conference in Canberra this week. Selected Writings was edited by Angela Goddard and Tim Riley Walsh, and co-published by Power Publications, Sydney, and Griffith University Art Museum, Brisbane.
Works by Gordon Bennett and Helen Johnson are currently on view at Tate Modern as part of A Year in Art: Australia in 1992, a new exhibition exploring the debate over Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander land rights before and after the High Court’s landmark 1992 Mabo decision.
Gordon Bennett: Unfinished Business continues at Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, until 21 March 2021. It is the first large-scale exhibition of Bennett’s work and features 200 artworks ranging from installation and sculptural assemblage to painting, drawing, video and ceramics.
In his lifetime, Bennett was widely regarded as one of Queensland’s, and indeed one of Australia’s, most perceptive and inventive contemporary artists. Queensland-born, 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.
