ANNE BENNETT ART
Curatorial Projects
An important part of Anne’s practice involves the curation of themed group exhibitions and public programming at a range of public, university, artist run initiatives, pop up galleries and public spaces. Since the mid 1980s Anne has curated nine interdisciplinary group exhibitions in addition to recent multi sensory collborative installations/events. In 2016 Anne was named on the Dean’s Honour List for Academic Excellence in Art Curatorship at The University of Melbourne and in 2019 established Onticity Art Projects, a contemporary art platform which promotes the existential experience of visual art and multi sensory collaborative projects through a range of exhibitions and events in public spaces.
Artists include: Jillian Allan / Marie Louise Anderson/ Lyn Ashby / Stephen Armstrong/ Rhonda Ayliffe / Alexis Beckett, / Anne Bennett / Lynne Boyd / Graham Brindley / Geraldine Burke / Natasha Carrington / Antonietta Covino-Beehre / Catherine Bell / Emily Beringer / Jennifer Butler / Mimmo Cozzolino / Cathy Drummond / Peter Ellis / David Fraser / David Harley / Ann Harris / Jodi Heffernan / Euan Heng / Kari Henriksen / Lily Hibberd / Danielle Hobbs / Judy Holding / Pamela Irving / Wendy Kelly / Carolyn Lewens / Alex Lyall / Colleen Morris / Fiona Murphy / Jill Orr / Spiros Panigirakis / Stephen Pascoe / Angela Powell / Elizabeth Presa / Vicki Reynolds. / Heather Shimmen / Felicity Spear / Neil Stanyer / Bob Webster / Hugh Wilbur-Ham
Venues include: Albury Regional Art Gallery /Cusp Gallery Northcote / East Gippsland Gallery /Gippsland Art Gallery / Hatch Contemporary Art Space City of Banyule / Horsham Regional Art Gallery / Maroondah Art Gallery Ringwood, /Melbourne Spoleto Fringe Festival /The Royal Society of Victoria /69 Smith Street Gallery /Month of Print Impact 7 International Print Conference / Spiral Arm Gallery ACT / Swan Hill Regional Gallery /Switchback Gallery Monash University Gippsland Campus / Tilde New Music & Sound Art Festival Testing Grounds Melbourne / Walker Street Gallery Dandenong.
In 2017, Anne curated the group exhibition, States of Being and lively program of public events bringing over 900 community members and visitors from across Melbourne to the City of Banyule’s Hatch Contemporary Art Space in order to engage with issues of water and the environment.
Selected Projects
States of Being
States of Being: the elemental importance of water, Curated by Dr Anne Bennett,Hatch Contemporary Arts Space, Ivanhoe, 2017.
Seeing Books
Seeing Artists Books as Research, curated by Dr Anne Bennett, Royal Society of Victoria, Heritage Library, 2012.
Paper Animals
Paper Animals: animals as metaphor Curated by Anne Bennett, Maroondah Gallery, 2004/5.