Gordon Bennett
G O R D O N B E N N E T T
1955 Born Monto, Queensland, lives and works in Brisbane
1986-88 Bachelor of Arts (Fine Arts), Queensland College of Art, Brisbane
1990 Winner of Aberdare Art Prize, Ipswich City Council Regional Gallery, Ipswich
1991 Winner of the Moet & Chandon Australian Art Fellowship
1993 Artist in Residence, University of Melbourne, MacGeorge Fellowship
1994 Winner of the Contemporary Art Excellence Award, Nudgee College, Brisbane
1995 Australian Network for Art and Technology Summer School, Brisbane
1995 Winner of the Pine Rivers Art Prize
Winner of the Logan City Painting Prize
1996 Anniversary Creative Arts Fellow, Australian National University, Canberra
1997 Winner of the SCEGGS Redlands/ Westpac Art Award, Sydney
1997 Winner of the John McCaughey Memorial Art Prize, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
1998 Winner of the Jacaranda Acquisitive Drawing Award, Grafton Regional Gallery, Grafton
Solo Exhibitions
2009 Gordon Bennett Retro (Home Décor) Aboriginal Art, Sutton Gallery, Melbourne
2007-9 Gordon Bennett Survey Exhibition, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Queensland Art Gallery/Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane &Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth
2008 Gordon Bennett: Shadow Reflections, Milani Gallery, Brisbane
Gordon Bennett, Greenaway Art Gallery, Adelaide
Gordon Bennett: Digital Prints, Sutton Gallery Project Space, Melbourne
2007 Gordon Bennett, Bellas Milani Gallery, Brisbane
Gordon Bennett, Sutton Gallery, Melbourne
The Expiation of Guilt, Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom.
2006 Gordon Bennett “Prints”, Bellas Milani Gallery, Brisbane
Gordon Bennett “New Work” Sherman Galleries, Sydney
2005 Gordon Bennett “New Work”, Bellas Milani Gallery, Brisbane
2004 Gordon Bennett “New Work”, Greenaway Art Gallery, Adelaide
Gordon Bennett “New Work”, Melbourne Art Fair, Sutton Gallery, Melbourne
Out of Print, Dell Gallery, Queensland College of Art travelling exhibition, Brisbane
Gordon Bennett “New Work”, Bellas Milani Gallery, Brisbane
2003 Gordon Bennett, New works on paper, Bellas Gallery, Brisbane
White Paintings, Sutton Gallery, Melbourne
Figure/Ground (Zero), Sherman Galleries, Sydney
2002 Notes to Basquiat: 911, Greenaway Art Gallery, Adelaide
Notes to Basquiat: 911 (Part II), Bellas Gallery, Brisbane
Notes to Basquiat: 911 (Part III), Sutton Gallery, Melbourne
2001 Notes to Basquiat: The Reverb, Sutton Gallery, Melbourne
Notes to Basquiat: The Reverb, Bellas Gallery, Brisbane
Notes to Basquiat: Modern Art, Sherman Gallery, Sydney
Contemporary Australian Art From the Paul Eliadis Collection, University of Queensland Art Museum, Brisbane
2000 Notes to Basquiat (Samo) Another Millennium, Sutton Gallery, Melbourne
1999-2000 History and Memory in the Art of Gordon Bennett, Brisbane City Gallery, Brisbane, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, UK, Arnolfini, Bristol, UK & Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, Oslo, Norway
1999 Gordon Bennett, Sutton Gallery, Melbourne
Notes to Basquiat: One Tense Moment, Bellas Gallery, Brisbane
Notes to Basquiat: One Tense Moment (episode two), Sherman Galleries, Sydney
1998 Home Decor (Calculus), Sutton Gallery, Melbourne
Gordon Bennett, Bellas Gallery, Brisbane
Notes to Basquiat, Gramercy International Art Fair, New York, USA
1997 Home Decor (Algebra), Bellas Gallery, Brisbane
Preston + De Stijl = Citizen (Cold Comfort), Sutton Gallery, Melbourne
1996 Mirror Mirror: The Narcissism of Coloniality, Canberra School of Art Gallery, Canberra
Australiana, Art for the Bridge, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane
Home Decor (after Margaret Preston), Bellas Gallery, Brisbane
1995 BLACK: Fear of Shadows, Bellas Gallery, Brisbane
Performance with Object for the Expiation of Guilt: Apple Premiere Mix, Noosa Regional Gallery, Noosa
1994 Mirror Mirror (The Inland Sea), Sutton Gallery, Melbourne
Surface Veil, Bellas Gallery, Brisbane
Dismember/Remember, Bellas Gallery, Brisbane
How to Cross the Void - works on paper, Sutton Gallery, Melbourne
Present Wall, installation, Institute Building, Adelaide
Performance with Object for the Expiation of Guilt, Bellas Gallery, Brisbane
D.U.H! (Down Under Homi), Sutton Gallery, Melbourne
1993 A Black History, Sutton Gallery, Melbourne
Painting History, Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia, Adelaide
Painting History, The Drill Hall, Canberra
Mirrorama, Ian Potter Gallery, University of Melbourne, Melbourne
How to Cross the Void, Bellas Gallery, Brisbane
1992 The Colour Black and Other Histories, Bellas Gallery, Brisbane
Relative/Absolute, Bellas Gallery, Brisbane
1991 Gordon Bennett, Bellas Gallery, Brisbane
Dialogues with Self, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth
1990 Psycho(d)rama, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane
1989 Gordon Bennett, Bellas Gallery, Brisbane
Group Exhibitions
2009 Avoiding Myth and Message: Australian Artists and the Literary World, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
I Have Not Been Myself Lately…, Queensland College of Art Gallery, Brisbane
Black and White: Documenting Indigenous Australia, Wilbow Gallery, Monash Gallery of Art, Victoria
2008 Biennale of Sydney: Revolutions – Forms that Turn, Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney
Through Artists’ Eyes: Tracey Moffat and Gordon Bennett - Highlights from the University’s National Collection of Artists’ Self Portraits, University of Queensland Art Museum, Brisbane
Someone’s Universe: The Art of Eugene Carchesio, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane
Open Daze, Dell Gallery @ Queensland College of Art, Brisbane
The Tallis Foundation 2008 National Works on Paper award exhibition, Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, Mornington
Lines in the Sand: Botany Bay Stories from 1770, Hazelhurst Regional Art Gallery, Sydney
The Pine Rivers Art Award Winner’s Retrospective 1993 – 2007, Pine Rivers Regional Art Gallery, Strathpine
Conflicts: 1945 to Today, Australian War Memorial, Canberra
Gifted: New to the Griffith University Art Collection, Dell Gallery, Brisbane
In a Different Light: artists portrayed, Monash Gallery of Art, Melbourne
2007 Artist Makes Video: Art Rage Survey 1994-1998, Dell Gallery @ QCA, Brisbane
Eye to I, Potter Gallery, Ballarat Fine Art Gallery, Ballarat
2006 Queensland Live! Contemporary Art on Tour, Queensland Art Gallery Touring Exhibition, Brisbane
Photographic Portrait Prize, Art Gallery New South Wales, Sydney
Bangu Yilbara: Works from the MCA Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
A Man’s World, Museum of Brisbane, Brisbane
Colonial to Contemporary – Queensland College of Art 125 Years, Dell Gallery, Brisbane
Prism: Contemporary Australian Art, Bridgestone Museum of Art, Ishibashi Foundation, Japan
New to the Modern: Heide Twenty-Five Years on, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne
2005 International Biennale of Contemporary Art in Prague 2005, The National Gallery in Prague, Czech Republic
The Plot Thickens: Narratives in Australian Art, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne
Future Tense: Security and Human Rights, Dell Gallery and Galleria Space, Queensland College of Art, Griffith University, Brisbane
Cook’s Sites, Museum of Sydney, Sydney
after Van Gogh: Australian artists in homage to Vincent, Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, Melbourne
ARC Biennial, Brisbane City Hall, Brisbane
Unscripted, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
2004 – 05 Three Colours, Gordon Bennett and Peter Robinson, Heide Museum of Modern Art Touring Exhibition, Melbourne
2004 Likan Mirri - Connections. The AIATSIS Collection of Art, Drill Hall Gallery, Australian National University, Canberra
Place made: Australian Print Workshop, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
Heavenly Creatures, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne
Terra Alterius: Land of Another, Ivan Dougherty Gallery Touring Exhibition, The University of New South Wales, College of Fine Arts, Sydney
One Of (unique-state photographic works), Festivus 04, Sherman Galleries, Sydney
Home & Away (Place and Identity in Recent Australian Art), Museum of Art, Monash University
2003 Isle of Refuge, Ivan Dougherty Gallery Touring Exhibition, The University of New South Wales, College of Fine Arts, Sydney
Synergies, Drill Hall Gallery, Australian National University, Canberra
Many Happy Returns: Celebrating Heide’s 21st Birthday, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne
When I was Young – Impressions of Childhood, Global Arts link, Ipswich
War Without Boundaries – Australia and the War Against Terrorism, Australian War Memorial, Canberra
2002 No Shame No More, Sotheby’s Galleries, Sydney
Other Views, Works from the University Collection, Griffith University, Brisbane
Deeper Places, Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre, Sydney
Fieldwork, Works from the Collection, The Ian Potter Centre, National Gallery of Victoria, Federation Square, Melbourne
Sublime, Wesfarmers Collection, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth
The Big River Show – Murrumbidgee Riverine, Wagga Wagga Regional Art Gallery
2001 Our Place: Issues of Identity in Recent Australian Art, Monash University Museum of Art, Prato, Italy
Transit Narratives, Villa Letizia, Treviso, Italy
366/2000, Auckland Museum, New Zealand
Imaging, Identity and Place, Grafton Regional Gallery, (two year touring exhibition to Australian regional galleries)
2000 Kwangju Biennale 2000, Korea
Shanghai Biennale, China
Crossing the Ocean, Central Academy of Fine Artists, Beijing, China
Mirror with a Memory, National Portrait Gallery, Canberra
On the brink; Abstraction of the 90s, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne
12th Biennale of Sydney, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
1999-2000 New Republics, Contemporary art from Australia, Canada & South Africa, Canada House Gallery, London; Edmonton Art Gallery, Edmonton; Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne; Johannesburg Art Gallery, Johannesburg
1999 Perspecta 99, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
A Letter to Picasso: The Stamp in Contemporary Art, Post Master Gallery, Melbourne; curated by Merryn Gates
Commissions Exhibition, Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart
Conceptualist Art: Points of Origin 1950’s – 1980’s, Queens Museum of Art, New York; Walker Art Centre, Minneapolis
Body of Information: 99 Dong ALG International Festival of Comics and Information, Seoul, Korea
Third Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane
Sydney 2000: Limited Edition Artists’ Prints, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
Art – Worlds in Dialogue, Ludwig Museum, Cologne, Germany
Crossing the Ocean, The Central Academy of Fine Art, Beijing, China
1998 Remanence, Old Magistrates’ Court, Melbourne Festival
National Works on Paper, Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, Victoria
The Great Australian Teapot, Distelfink Gallery, Melbourne
Telling Tales, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney, Neue Galerie, Graz, Austria
Foldback, Ngapartji Co-operative Multimedia Centre, Adelaide, South Australia
Proof Positive- a selection of prints from the archive of the Australian Print Workshop, Carnegie Gallery, Hobart City Council, Tasmania
Jacaranda Acquisitive Drawing Award, Grafton Regional Gallery, (touring regional galleries)
Flesh and Blood, Museum of Sydney, NSW
The Australian Drawing Biennale, The ANU, Drill Hall Gallery, Canberra (touring exhibition)
1997 Landmarks - Contemporary Visions of the Australian Landscape, Campbelltown City Bicentennial Art Gallery, Campbelltown
Video Positive ‘97: Escaping Gravity, Open Eye Gallery, Liverpool, England
In Place (Out of Time): Contemporary Art in Australia, Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, England
Breaking Borders, St. Norbert Arts and Cultural Centre, Manitoba, Canada.
In Relief: Australian Wood Engravings, Woodcuts and Linocuts, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Archives and the Everyday, Installation, Old Parliament House, Canberra
Episodes, Contemporary Art Services Tasmania, Hobart
Bus Stop Art: Limited Edition Prints, Melbourne International Festival, Melbourne
Geelong Contemporary Art Prize Exhibition, Geelong Art Gallery, Geelong
The Rock Building Society Central Queensland Biennial Art Purchase
Personal Vision Multiple Perspective Queensland University of Technology Touring Exhibition, Queensland
Body of Information (Australian Video & Interactive Artwork), Gallery Connexion, Fredericton, Canada
John McCaughey Memorial Art Prize, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
The Real Thing, Museum of Modern Art at Heide, Melbourne
1996 Native Titled Now, Tandanya (National Aboriginal Cultural Institute), Adelaide
Blundstone Prize, National Touring Exhibition, Australia
Flagging the Republic, Sherman Galleries Goodhope, Sydney Regional Touring Exhibition
Sub-Urban, Freemantle Arts Centre, Western Australia
Rites for an Anxious Spring: Selected Acquisitions 1981-1995, Museum of Modern Art at Heide, Melbourne
Face value: Portraits from the Collection, Waverley City Gallery, Melbourne
AERPHOST, The Debtor’s Prison, Dublin, Ireland
The Burbs, Gold Coast City Art Gallery, Gold Coast, Queensland
Systems End: Contemporary Art in Australia, touring exhibition Korea, Japan and Singapore, 1996
Perception and Perspective, Next Wave Festival, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Inclusion/Exclusion: Art in the Age of Post Colonialism and Global Migration, Künstlerhaus Burgring, Graz, Austria
Colonial Post Colonial, Museum of Modern Art at Heide, Melbourne
Artrage, Artworks for television
Fourth Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide
The Second Biennale of Contemporary Art of Noumea, Theatre de l’Ile, Noumea
1995 Interfaces: Art and Technology, Regional Touring Exhibition, Griffith University, Brisbane
LINGO Getting the Picture, Brisbane City Hall Art Gallery, Brisbane
Pathways 1, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane
Sight Seeing; Views, Tourists, Souvenirs, National Philatelic Centre, Melbourne
Seven Histories of Australia, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne
The Wandering Jew - Myth and Metaphor, Jewish Museum of Australia, Melbourne, (regional touring exhibition)
TransCulture, curated by Dana Friis-Hansen, Palazzo Giustinian Lolin, Venice Biennale, Italy; Naoshima Contemporary Art Museum, Naoshima Island, Japan
Digital Shifts, part of the Zero 1 project, Noosa Regional Gallery, Tewantin
1994/95 Antipodean Currents, John F Kennedy Centre, Washington DC; Guggenheim Museum Soho, New York
Virtual Reality, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
1994 The Beach, Museum of Modern Art at Heide, Melbourne
Landed, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
Localities of Desire: Contemporary Art in an International World, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
Tyerabarrbowaryaou II, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
Aussemblage!, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, New Zealand
Present Wall, The Institute Building, Adelaide Biennial
Fifth Havana Biennial, Cuba
Faciality, Monash University Gallery, Melbourne
Identities: Art from Australia, An International Exchange Exhibition between Australia and Taiwan, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taiwan; Wollongong City Gallery, New South Wales; Gold Coast City Gallery, Queensland
Sweet Damper and Gossip - Colonial Sightings from the Goulburn North East, Benalla Art Gallery, Victoria; Monash University Gallery, Melbourne; Shepparton Art Gallery, Victoria
Adelaide Installations: incorporating the Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art, Adelaide
Urban Focus: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art from the Urban Areas of Australia, National Gallery of Australia, Canberr
1993 Inner-Land. Australian Contemporary Art, Soko Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Confess and Conceal: 11 Insights from Contemporary South East Asia and Australia, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, touring South East Asia
Fifth Australian Sculpture Triennial, Melbourne
Commitments, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane
Aratjara: Art of the First Australians, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Dusseldorf; Hayward Gallery, London; Louisiana Museum of Contemporary Art, Humlebaek
Prime Television Painting Prize, Newcastle Region Art Gallery; Gold Coast City Art Gallery
1992 9th Biennale of Sydney: The Boundary Rider, Bond Store 3\4 and Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Strangers in Paradise: Contemporary Australian Art to Korea, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul
Medium Density: Contemporary Australian Drawings and Photographs, Australian National Gallery, Canberra
Domino I: Collaborations Between Artists, Ian Potter Gallery, Melbourne
Transgenerations, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane
Australian Artists In Paris, Galerie Parvi: Pour l'Art Visuel, Paris
Works from the Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, Brisbane
Tyerabarrbowaryaou: I Shall Never Become A White Man, MCA, Sydney
Southern Crossings: Contemporary Australian Photography, Camerawork Gallery, London, (two year tour of Britain)
1991 Moet & Chandon Touring Exhibition, Australia
Aboriginal Art and Spirituality, High Court of Australia, Canberra
Three Artists, Powell Street Gallery, Melbourne
1990 Acquisitions 1984-1990, University Art Museum, University of Queensland, Brisbane
You Came to My Country and You Didn't Turn Black, Queensland Museum, Brisbane
Taqari Lia: My Family, Contemporary Aboriginal Art 1990- From Australia,Third Eye Centre, Glasgow, Scotland
Young Contemporaries, Irving Galleries, Sydney
Urban Aboriginal Art, Hogarth Galleries, Sydney
Innovations in Aboriginal Art, Hogarth Galleries, Sydney
Only Life, Bellas Gallery, Brisbane
Post-Hillshoistism, Museum of Contemporary Art, Brisbane
Adelaide Biennial, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide
Balance 1990: Views, Visions, Influences, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane Moet & Chandon Touring Exhibition, Australia
Paraculture, Artists’ Space, New York
1989 Perspecta, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Myriad of Dreaming, Twentieth Century Aboriginal Art, Lauraine Diggins Fine Art Gallery, Melbourne
Visual Poetics, Museum of Contemporary Art, Brisbane
Group exhibition, Bellas Gallery, Brisbane
Collaborations, Bellas Gallery, Brisbane
1988 Australian Art of the Last Twenty Years, Museum of Contemporary Art, Brisbane
Works From the Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, Brisbane
1987 Little Masters, THAT Contemporary Artspace, Brisbane
Performances
1992-2009 Non-Performance, consisting of a seventeen year period of systematic non-participation in public lecture programs within Australia
Collections
Aberdeen Asset Management, Sydney
Adelaide Festival Collection, Adelaide
Allied Queensland Coalfields, Ipswich
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide
Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth
Artbank, Sydney
Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies, Canberra
Australian National University, Canberra
Australian War Memorial, Canberra
City of Box Hill Collection, Box Hill
Benalla Art Gallery, Victoria
BHP Biliton, Melbourne
BP Refinery Ltd, Brisbane
Brisbane Boys Grammar School, Brisbane
Brisbane Girls Grammar School, Brisbane
Capalaba State High School, Brisbane
Charles Sturt University, Wagga Wagga
Chartwell Collection, New Zealand
City of Whitehorse Art Collection, Victoria
Department of Aboriginal and Islander Affairs, Brisbane
Downlands College, Toowoomba Regional Gallery, Toowoomba
Flinders University of South Australia, Adelaide
Gippsland Art Gallery Sale, Victoria
Gold Coast City Art Gallery, Queensland
Grafton Regional Gallery, New South Wales
Griffith University, Brisbane
Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne
Holmes à Court Collection, Perth
The Ian Potter Museum of Art, University of Melbourne, Melbourne
Moet & Chandon, Epernay, France
Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne
Museum of Brisbane, City of Brisbane Collection, Brisbane
Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
Museum of Sydney on the site of the first Government House, Historic Houses Trust of NSW, Sydney
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
National Portrait Gallery, Canberra
Parliament House Art Collection, Canberra
Peggy Scott & David Teplitzky Collection
Perc Tucker Regional Gallery, Townsville
Pine Rivers Shire Council, Pine Rivers
Powerhouse Museum, Sydney
Queensland Teachers Union, Brisbane
Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane
Queensland Art Gallery, Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane
Queensland Forestry Commission, Brisbane
Sydney Church of England Girls Grammar School, Sydney
Stanthorpe Art Gallery, Stanthorpe
State Library of Victoria, Melbourne
Tasmanian Museum & Art Gallery, Hobart
Toowoomba Regional Gallery, Toowoomba
University Art Museum, University of Queensland, Brisbane
University of Technology, Sydney
Vizard Collection, Melbourne
Wavell State High School, Brisbane
Wesley College, Melbourne
Wesfarmers Collection of Australian Art, Perth
The Yarra Collection, Melbourne
Private collections
Selected Bibliography
Amadio, Nadine. ‘Oz in the Global Art Village’, Oz Arts Magazine, #4 1992, pp. 70-71.
Anderson, Peter. ‘Gordon Bennett’, Art & Text, no. 40 September 1991, pp. 94.
Barrett-Lennard, John. ‘Negotiating a Position’, Adelaide Installations: Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art, exhibition catalogue, vol.1 no.1 1994, Adelaide: Art Gallery of South Australia, pp. 48-51.
Bartlett, Judith. You Came To My Country and You Didn't Turn Black, exhibition catalogue, Brisbane: Queensland Museum, 1990.
Bennett, Gordon. ‘The Coming of the Light’ Artist’s Statement, Balance 1990: Views, Visions, Influences, exhibition catalogue, Brisbane: Queensland Art Gallery, 1990, pp. 46-47.
- ‘Re-writing History’, exhibition catalogue, Southern Crossings, London: Camerawork,1992, pp.19- 21.
- Artist’s Statement, Southern Crossings, exhibition catalogue, London: Camerawork, 1992, pp 43-47
- ‘On Double Standards: An 'Other' Perspective’, Art Monthly Australia, no. 47 March 1992, pp. 26-27.
- Artist’s Statement, Strangers in Paradise: Contemporary Australian Art to Korea, exhibition catalogue, Sydney: Art Gallery of New South Wales, 1992, pp. 22-25.
- Artist’s Statement, Tyerabarrbowaryaou: I Shall Never Become a White Man, exhibition catalogue, Sydney: Museum of Contemporary Art, 1992, p. 14.
- Artist’s Statement, Identities: Art from Australia, exhibition catalogue, Taipei: Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taiwan, 1993, pp. 53-55.
- ‘Confess Conceal’ Artist’s Statement, Confess and Conceal, exhibition catalogue, Perth: Art Gallery of Western Australia, 1993, p.26.
- Artist Statement’s, Fifth Australian Sculpture Triennial, exhibition catalogue, Melbourne, 1993, vol.1 no.1, pp. 32-33.
- ‘Aesthetics and Iconography: An Artist’s Approach’, Aratjara. Art of the First Australians, exhibition catalogue, Dusseldorf: Kunstsammlung Nordrein-Westfalen, 1993, pp. 85-91.
- Inner-Land: Exhibition of Australian Contemporary Art, exhibition catalogue, Tokyo: Lumani Gallery.
- Artist’s Statement, Zero One - Digital Shifts, exhibition catalogue, Noosa: Noosa Regional Gallery, 1995, p. 8.
- ‘Altered Body Print (Howl)’, A Selection from the Downlands Art Collection: Toowoomba Regional Art Gallery, exhibition catalogue, Toowoomba: Downlands College, 1995, p. 19-20.
- ‘The Manifest Toe’, The Art of Gordon Bennett, Sydney: Craftsman House /G+B Arts International, 1996, pp. 9-62.
Bennett, Jill. Empathic Vision: Affect, Trauma and Contemporary Art, Stanford: Stanford University
Press, 2004.
- Love and Irony: Gordon Bennett after 9/11, Three Colours, exhibition catalogue, Melbourne:
Heide Museum of Modern Art, 2004.
Bourke, Ace. ‘Lines in the Sand’, Lines in the Sand exhibition catalogue, Sydney: Hazelhurst
Regional Gallery & Arts Centre, 2008, pp 23-24, 30, 38-39.
Broadfoot, Keith & Rex Butler. ‘The Fearful Sphere of Australia’, Paraculture, exhibition catalogue, Sydney: Artspace, New York: Artists Space, pp. 6-14.
Buckner, Robin. ‘Gordon Bennett’, Art and Design (Book One), Sydney: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1995, pp. 12-14.
Butler, Rex. ‘Two readings of Gordon Bennett's The Nine Ricochets’, Eyeline 19 Winter/Spring 1992, Brisbane: Queensland Art Workers Alliance, pp. 18-23.
- ‘The Pataphysical Aborigine’, Gordon Bennett, Paintings 1987 - 1991, Epernay, France: Moët & Chandon Australian Art Foundation.
Cass, Naomi. ‘Home Is Where the Heart Is’, The Wandering Jew — Myth And Metaphor, exhibition catalogue, Melbourne: Jewish Museum of Australia, 1995, pp. 18-27.
Chamberlin, Lou. ‘Gordon Bennett’, ‘art inSight’, Sydney: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 2007, pp. 114 & 195-198.
Chapman, Christopher. ‘A Discussion with Gordon Bennett - The Inland Sea’, ARTONVIEW, Canberra: National Gallery of Australia, issue 1 Autumn 1995, pp. 38-42.
- ‘Homeboy’, Art & Australia, vol. 32 no. 3 Autumn 1995, p. 442.
Churcher, Betty. ‘Gordon Bennett: Notes to Basquiat 9:11’, The Art of War, Melbourne: Melbourne
University Publishing Ltd, 2004, pp130-133.
Clemens, Justin. ‘The Analphabeast: Identity and Relation in the Work of Gordon Bennett’, Gordon
Bennett exhibition catalogue, Melbourne: National Gallery of Victoria, 2007.
Croft, Brenda L. INDIGENOUS ART: Art Gallery of Western Australia, exhibition catalogue, Perth: Art Gallery of Western Australia, 2001, pp. 9, 41, 82.
Crumlin, Rosemary. Aboriginal Art and Spirituality, Victoria: Collins Dove, 1991, pp. 143-144.
Dimitriadis, Greg & McCarthy, Cameron. ‘Urban Renewal: Gordon Bennett's Notes to Basquiat (9 11)’, Notes to Basquiat: 9 11, exhibition catalogue, Adelaide Festival of the Arts, 2002, Adelaide: Greenaway Art Gallery, 2002.
- Reading and Teaching the Postcolonial: From Baldwin to Basquiat and Beyond, New York: Teachers College Press, 2001.
Dutkiewicz, Adam. ‘Complex and Engaging Imagery’, Adelaide Advertiser, 25 February 1994.
Foggarty, Rebbekah. ‘Fusing Cultures’, Dare, no. 1 July, 1989, Brisbane, pp. 45-46.
Fontannaz, Lucienne. ‘Lingo - Getting the Picture’, Lingo - Getting the Picture, exhibition catalogue, Brisbane: Brisbane City Hall Art Gallery, 1995, pp. 4,10.
Friis-Hansen, Dana & Fumio Nanjo. ‘Gordon Bennett’, Transculture: La Biennale di Venezia 1995, exhibition catalogue, Italy: Palazzo Giustinian Lolin, pp.18-19, 87-92.
Gates, Merryn. ‘Collaborations Between Artists’, Domino I: Collaborations Between Artists, exhibition catalogue, Melbourne: Ian Potter Gallery, University of Melbourne, 1992, pp. 2-21.
Gellatly, Kelly. ‘Citizen in the Making: The Art of Gordon Bennett’, Gordon Bennett exhibition catalogue, Melbourne: National Gallery of Victoria, 2007.
Gleissler, M. ‘Moet & Chandon’, Oz Arts Magazine, no. 1 Spring 1991, pp. 54-59.
Grant, Kirsty. In Relief; Australian Wood Engravings, Woodcuts and Linocuts, exhibition catalogue, Melbourne: National Gallery of Victoria, 1997, p. 65.
Harvey, Graham. ‘Readings in Indigenous Religions’, Great Britain: Continuum, 2002, pp. 310-316.
Heartney, Eleanor. ‘Identity and Locale: Four Australian Artists’, Art in America. May, 2009.
Heathcote, Christopher. ‘Postmodern, but with a point to make’, The Age, 24 February 1993.
Hogan, Janet. Balance 1990 : Views, Visions, Influences, exhibition catalogue, Brisbane: Queensland Art Gallery, 1990.
Hoorne, Jeanette. ‘Positioning the Post-Colonial Subject: History and Memory in the Art of Gordon Bennett’, Art and Australia, vol.31 no.2 Summer 1993, pp. 216-226.
Hunt, Pennie. ‘Blood as a Trace’, Three Colours, exhibition catalogue, Melbourne: Heide Museum of Modern Art, 2004.
Huppatz, Danny. ‘Redressing the Balance: The Art of Gordon Bennett’, Broadsheet-Contemporary
Visual Arts and Culture, vol. 26 no.2 Winter 1997.
Ingram, Terry. ‘Map of Canberra shows way in Venice’, Financial Review, 29 June 1995, p. 27.
Isaacs, Jennifer. ‘A Bitter Pill for the White Man (Woman). Tyerabarrbowaryaou at the Museum of Contemporary Art’, Art Monthly Australia, no. 49 May 1992, pp.6-7.
- ‘Gordon Bennett’, Aboriginality: Contemporary Aboriginal Paintings and Prints, Brisbane: University of Queensland Press, 1992, pp. 53-57.
Israel, Glenis. Essential Art, Victorian Essential Learning Standards Levels 5 & 6, Brisbane: John Wiley & Sons Australia Ltd, 2007, pp. 189-191.
James, Rodney. ‘The allure of Van Gogh’, after van Gogh: Australian artists in homage to Vincent,
exhibition catalogue, Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, 2005, p. 38.
Johnson, Vivien. ‘The Unbounded Biennale. Contemporary Aboriginal Art’, Art and Australia, vol. 31 no.1 Spring 1993, pp. 49-56.
Jordan, Tim & Steve Pile. ‘Social Change’, UK: Blackwell Publishers, 2002, p 71,73.
Karmel, Pepe. ‘Antidotes for a Cartoonish Image’, The New York Times, 23 June 1995, p. C27.
Kirker, Anne. ‘Gordon Bennett: Expressions of Constructed Identity’, Artlink, vol. 10 nos. 1, 2 Autumn/Winter 1990, Adelaide: Artlink, pp. 93-95.
Lingard, Bob. ‘A Kind of History Painting’, Tension, no. 17 August 1989, pp. 39-42.
- ‘Psycho(d)rama: De(con)structing 'Settlement' ‘, Psycho(d)rama, exhibition catalogue, Brisbane: Institute of Modern Art, 1990.
- ‘Painting History’, Gordon Bennett, exhibition catalogue, Adelaide: Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia, 1993.
Lingard, Bob & Fazal Rizvi, ‘(Re)membering, (Dis)membering : 'Aborignality' and the Art of Gordon Bennett’, Third Text, no. 26 Spring 1994, pp. 75-89.
Lynn, Victoria. ‘Introduction: Strangers in Paradise’, Strangers in Paradise: Contemporary Australian Art to Korea, exhibition catalogue, Seoul, Korea: National Museum of Contemporary Art, 1992, pp. 12-18.
McCulloch, Susan, Contemporary Aboriginal Art, A Guide to the rebirth of an ancient culture, Sydney: Allen and Unwin, 1999, p. 204, 206.
McLean, Ian. ‘A Pool of Mirrors: Gordon Bennett's Present Wall’, Adelaide Installations, exhibition
catalogue, Adelaide: Art Gallery of South Australia, vol.1 1994, pp. 52-54.
- ‘Psycho(dr)ama Mirror Line : Reading Gordon Bennett's Installation Mirrorama’, Third Text, no.25 Winter 1993-94, pp. 77-80.
- ‘Painting a History of the Self in Postcolonial Australia: Gordon Bennett’s Existentialism; Philosophy and Painting: Gordon Bennett’s Critical Aesthetic; Towards an Australian Postcolonial Art’, The Art Gordon Bennett, Australia: Craftsman House/G+B Arts International, 1996, pp. 65-119.
- ‘Mirror Mirror: The Narcissism of Coloniality’, Mirror Mirror: The Narcissism of Coloniality, exhibition catalogue, Canberra: Canberra School of Art Gallery, Australian National University, 1996, p. 2-10.
- ‘Gordon Bennett’, Grand Street: Crossing the Line, no. 63 1997, New York: Grand Street Press, pp. 84-89.
- ‘Racism and Postmodernism: Australian Art and its Institutions’, Art Monthly Australia, no. 103 September 1997, pp. 15-19.
- White Aborigines. Identity Politics in Australian Art, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998.
- ‘Gordon Bennett’s Home Décor: the joker in the pack’, Law/Text/Culture: In the wake of Terra Nullius, Sydney: School of Law, Macquarie University, Australia, vol. 4 1998.
- ‘Documenta X and Australians in Oxford’, Third Text, No.42 Spring 1998, pp. 57-70.
- Probability,Rap and Coincidence: Notes to Basquiat, Gordon Bennett’s Notes to Basquiat, exhibition catalogue, Sydney: Sherman Galleries, 1999.
- ‘The Aura of Origin-ghouls and golems in Gordon Bennett's art’, Artlink, vol. 21 no. 4 2001, pp. 24-29.
- ‘Conspiracy Theory: Pollock, Basquiat, Bennett’, Notes to Basquiat: Modern Art, exhibition catalogue, Sydney: Sherman Galleries, 2001.
- ‘9 11 (with Apologies to Walter Benjamin)’, Notes to Basquiat: 9 11, 2002, exhibition catalogue, Adelaide Festival of the Arts, Adelaide: Greenaway Art Gallery, 2002.
- ‘Angel of History’, Third Text, vol. 16 issue 2 no. 59 June 2002, pp. 212-216.
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