ANNE BENNETT ART

Born Ivanhoe, Melbourne, Australia

Education

Master of Art Curatorship, The University of Melbourne

Doctor of Philosophy MADA, Monash University.

Master of Fine Art, University of Tasmania.

Bachelor of Art (Fine Art), Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (now RMIT University)

Certificate IV in Training and Assessment (TAE 40110), MRWED/ NMIT

Solo exhibitions

2020 Revitalise Warringal: The remaking of Banyule’s wetlands, Warringal Shopping Centre, Heidelberg

2019 Waterways, WaterMarc, Banyule City Council, Greensborough

2016 Formation & Reformation, Tilde New Music & Sound Art Festival, Testing Grounds

2015 Reiterating Paradise, Tilde New Music & Sound Art Festival, Testing Grounds

2014 The Making of Meaning: rapture and rupture in the garden, Post Office Gallery, Federation University, Ballarat

2014 The Making of Meaning: precedents and precincts, The Front, Docklands

2011 Fall Out From Eden Faculty Gallery, Monash University, Caulfield

2005 Re-coil Cardinia Cultural Centre

2001-02 Federation Dreaming Swan Hill Regional Gallery

2001 Federation Dreaming Walker Street Gallery, (touring Victorian Regional Galleries & ACT)

2000 Paradise Unreal Estate 8 metre shop front installation, 24 Langtree Ave, Mildura for Mildura Palimpsest #3 1999 Packaging Paradise Civic Centre Art Space, City of Casey

1991 Passages from Paradise Pinacotheca, Richmond

1988 Descent into Paradise Tolarno Galleries, South Yarra

1986 Imposition and Disposition, Plimsoll Galleries, Centre for the Arts, Hobart

Collaborations

2022 Banyule Open Studios Light after Dark Performance Night with Jutta Pryor (projections), Megan Kenny (flute), Scott Dunbabin (bass) and others, Dimension Art Project Space, Bundoora

2018 Yarra Yarra Project, Testing Grounds, in collaboration with sound artist Alice Bennett & accompanied by Nat Grant

Curatorial projects

2017 States of Being: the elemental importance of water, Hatch Contemporary Arts Space

2012 Seeing Artists Books as Research Royal Society of Victoria, Heritage Library

2011 Impact Of/n Nature 69 Smith Street Gallery, Fitzroy

2007 Paper Animals: animals as metaphor Albury Regional Art Gallery

2007 Paper Animals: animals as metaphor East Gippsland Art Gallery

2004 Paper Animals: animals as metaphor, Maroondah Art Gallery

2004 Environment Matters: science in art, Royal Society of Victoria

2004 Search: aspects arising from postgraduate research, Cusp Melbourne

2001 Art Animals: animals as metaphor Horsham Regional Art Gallery

2001 Art Animals: animals as metaphor Switchback Gallery, Gippsland Campus, Monash University.

2001 Art Animals: animals as metaphor Walker St Gallery, Dandenong

1986 Work on Walls, co-curator Hugh Wilbur-Ham in conjunction with Fringe Furniture Show, Ufitzi Galleries, Spoleto Fringe Festival, Melbourne

Selected group exhibitions

2021 Winter Days, Off the Kerb, Collingwood

2021 Land, Off the Kerb, Collingwood

2020 Liminal // a shared distance, , Hatch Contemporary Arts Space (online)

2017 States of Being: the elemental importance of water, Hatch Contemporary Arts Space

2016 Pinpoint Contemporary Art Fair, Hatch Contemporary Artspace, Banyule City Council

2015 f generation: feminism, art, progressions, George Paton Gallery, The University of Melbourne

2013 Drawing the Line, Chapman and Bailey

2013 Change within Change, Transdisciplinary Studio, Northern Exposure, Northcote Town Hall

2012 Seeing Artists Books as Research Royal Society of Victoria, Heritage Library

2012 Guarda…PRATO! Atrium Gallery, Monash University, Caulfield

2012 Transdisciplinary Studio on Yarra Bend Road, Red Gallery, Fitzroy

2011 Impact Of/n Nature 69 Smith Street Gallery, Fitzroy

2010 Greater Than One Faculty Gallery, Monash University

2009 Women, Art and Politics Swan Hill Regional Gallery

2007 ABC Book exhibition Northampton University, United Kingdom

2007 Paper Animals: animals as metaphor East Gippsland Art Gallery & Albury Regional Art Gallery

2007 3^rd International Collage Exhibition Vilnius 2006 Gallery Arka, Vilnius, Lithuania

2006 Hey-Li Printmedia Festival Sung Shin Women’s University, Seoul, Korea

2006 Swan Hill Print and Drawing Acquisitive Awards Swan Hill Regional Art Gallery

2006 Waterhouse Natural History Art Prize South Australian Museum

2006 Robert Jacks Drawing Prize Bendigo Art Gallery

2004 Paper Animals: animals as metaphor, Maroondah Art Gallery

2004 Environment Matters: science in art, Royal Society of Victoria

2004 Search: aspects arising from postgraduate research, Cusp Melbourne

2001 Art Animals: animals as metaphor Walker St Gallery, Dandenong, Horsham Regional Art Gallery, Switchback Gallery, Monash Uni.

2001 Mildura Palimpsest #4 Packing Sheds, Mildura

1999 Mildura Palimpsest #2 Mildura Arts Centre

1992-3 Margaret Stewart Endowment National Gallery of Victoria

1992 Recently Seen McClelland Gallery, Langwarrin, VIC.

1990 Art Angels Blaxland Gallery, Myer Melbourne

1987 Gallery Artists Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne

Collections

National Gallery of Victoria

Swan Hill Regional Art Gallery

University of Tasmania

Monash University Library Artists Books

State Library of Queensland Artists Books Collection

f generation Collection

Private Collections in Victoria & Tasmania

Awards, Prizes & Residencies

2020 Awarded Banyule City Council Community Grant, Banyule City Council

2019 Awarded Pinpoint Art In Public Spaces Grant, Banyule City Council

2018 Awarded Artist-In Residence, Testing Grounds, Melbourne with Sound Artist Alice Bennett

2016 Awarded Dean’s Honours List for Academic Excellence in Art Curatorship, The University of Melbourne

2012 Awarded Artist in Residence, University of Ballarat

2008 Awarded Postgraduate Travel Scholarship, Monash University

2008 Finalist Libris Awards Artspace, Mackay, QLD

2007 Awarded Postgraduate Equity Travel Scholarship, Monash University

2007 Awarded Search For The Impossible, Books 07 Acquisition Award

2007 Finalist She Walker Street Gallery, Melbourne

2007 Finalist Search For The Impossible, Books 07 Noosa Regional Art Gallery, QLD

2006 Finalist Swan Hill Print and Drawing Acquisitive Awards Swan Hill Regional Art Gallery

2006 Finalist Waterhouse Natural History Art Prize South Australian Museum

2006 Finalist Robert Jacks Drawing Prize Bendigo Art Gallery

2006 Finalist Silkcut Award Glen Eira City Council Gallery

2006 Finalist 10+ Beyond Books 06 Noosa Regional Gallery Qld

2006 Finalist Libris Awards Artspace, Mackay

2006 Finalist Southern Cross University Aquisitive Artists’ Book Award Next Contemporary Art Space, Southern Cross University, Lismore, NSW

2006 Finalist Image as Text as Image Noosa Regional Gallery Qld

2005 Finalist Black and White Books Artisan Books, Gertrude Street, Fitzroy

2005 Finalist Southern Cross University Acquisitive Artists’ Book Award Next Contemporary Art Space, Southern Cross University, Lismore, NSW

2005 Finalist Smorgon Steel Contemporary Art Prize Williamstown Festival

2002 Finalist Heart Walker St Gallery, Dandenong

2000 Awarded Swan Hill Regional Art Gallery Acquisition Award

2000 Awarded Artistcare Art Award

2000 Finalist Jacaranda Acquisitive Drawing Award Touring Show

1999 Finalist Shell Contemporary Art Prize Williamstown Festival

1999 Finalist She Walker Street Gallery, Dandenong

1999 Finalist Jacaranda Acquisitive Drawing Award Grafton Regional Gallery

1998 Awarded Walker Street Gallery Award, She Walker Street Gallery, Dandenong

1987 Awarded Desiderius Orban Award, Australia Council

Publications and essays by Anne

Bennett, Anne. “Seeing Artist Books as Research” Paper presented at Collaborations: Artists, Scholars and Libraries in Research Ecosystems, The Arts Libraries Society Australian and New Zealand Conference (ARLIS) 2012

Bennett, Anne. “Interweaving Materiality and Meaning Through Abstraction and its Processes.” Catalogue essay in Wendy Kelly: Undercurrent. Melbourne: Forty Five Downstairs, 2011. ISBN 978-0-646-56873-7

Bennett, Anne. Impact Of/n Nature catalogue. Melbourne: Keats Street Press, 2011. ISBN 978-0-9752425-3-7

Bennett, A. “Fallout From Eden: Re-visioning Dualist Thinking in Western Culture.” PhD exegesis. Monash University, 2011.

Bennett, Anne. “Being in the Moment.” in Transience: July Skies, Kari Henriksen catalogue. Melbourne: Keats Street Press, 2009. ISBN 978-0-9752425-2-0

Bennett, Anne. “Seeing Artist Books as Research” Paper presented at Collaborations: Artists, Scholars and Libraries in Research Ecosystems, The Arts Libraries Society Australian and New Zealand Conference (ARLIS) 2012

Bennett, Anne. “In the Serpent’s Image: snakes as metaphor.” Paper presented at Animals and Society II: Considering Animals Conference. Old Woolstore, Hobart, Tasmania. 3 July 2007

Bennett, Anne. ‘Snakes and Ladders: A fertile framework for the future’, paper presented at Australian Council of University Art and Design Schools (ACUADS) 2006 Conference. Monash University, 28 September 2006, published www.acuads.com.au

Bennett, Anne. “The artist/researcher as curator – A Case Study: Animals as Metaphor.” Paper presented at Setting the Standard(s): Learning and Teaching, Practice and Research, Art Education Australia, (AEA), Art Education Victoria (AEV). Monash University, 6 July 2006.

Bennett, Anne. “Sutured Hearts and Other Hallmarks: The Prints of Heather Shimmen.” Imprint. Spring, 34, no. 3 (1999): 6-8.

Bennett, Anne. “Light and Water: Views from Portsea.” Antiques & Art in Victoria, December (1999): 18.

Bennett, Anne. “Loss.” In Alex Lyall: Loss: Paintings and Drawings catalogue, April 23 – May 30, 1999, Mildura, Mildura Arts Centre, 1999.

Bennett, Anne. “The Invisible Hand of the Future.” Catalogue essay published in conjunction with the exhibition The Invisible Hand of the Future: Heather Shimmen shown at Bulle Galleries in Melbourne. June 1997.

Bennett, A. “Imposition and Disposition.” MFA Exegesis, University of Tasmania, 1986.

Publications and essays about Anne

Giblett, Rod, “States of Being: The Elemental Importance of Water.’” Essay on States of Being: The Elemental Importance of Water Exhibition, Hatch Contemporary Arts Space, August 2017.

Peckham, Penny, “Anne Bennett: The Making of Meaning: Rapture and Rupture in the Garden” in Anne Bennett: The Making of Meaning: Rapture and Rupture in the Garden 2012-2014 catalogue, Melbourne: Keats Street Press, 2014. ISBN -978-0-9752425-2-0

Bennett, Anne. Impact Of/n Nature. Melbourne: Keats Street Press, 2011. ISBN 978-0-9752425-3-7

Bennett, A. “Fallout From Eden: Re-visioning Dualist Thinking in Western Culture.” PhD exegesis. Monash University, 2011.

McCulloch, Susan and Emily McCulloch, ed.s. McCulloch’s Encyclopedia of Australian Art, (4th ed.) NSW, Aus Art Editions, 2006 ISBN-10: 0977563502 ISBN-13: 978-0977563500

Alan & Susan McCulloch, Encyclopedia of Australian Art (3^rd ed.) NSW, Allen and Unwin, 1994 ISBN-10: 0824816889 ISBN-13: 978-0824816889

2006 Silkcut catalogue

Hey-Li Printmedia Festival, catalogue, Korean Contemporary Printmakers Association, Seoul, 2006.

The Age (Melbourne ) Magazine, Issue #3 September 2006, p.106

Search: Aspects arising from post-graduate research catalogue, Melbourne: Cusp Gallery, 2004

Environment Matters: science in art catalogue, Melbourne: Royal Society of Victoria Melbourne, 2004

Evans, Pru J. “Paper Animals” in Paper Animals: Animals as Metaphor catalogue, Melbourne, 2004

Preview: “Paper Animals: animals as metaphor.” Imprint 39, No. 4, (2004): 29

Fulton, Bernadette. “Federation Dreaming” in Federation Dreaming catalogue, Melbourne, 2001

Grishan, Sasha. “A Satirical Manner.” Canberra Times, April 23, 2001.

Dodd, Lisa. “Artistic Dreaming.” Pakenham-Berwick Gazette, March 28, 2001, People in Profile section.

Mark Freeman, ‘The Great Australian Dream’ The Springvale Dandenong Times, February 14, 2001, 14

Stephanie Radock, ‘Mildura’s Palimpsest: the sigh of the land’, Realtime + On Screen, No. 37 June/July (2000)

Beattie, Terry. “Animals in Art.” Art Animals: animals as metaphor catalogue, Melbourne, 2000

Max Germaine, A Dictionary of Women Artists of Australia, NSW, Craftsman House, 1990

Ronald Millar, ‘Out of Fashion Art Hits Fashionable Galleries’, The Hearld, 16/3/1988

Roger Taylor, Gotham City Gossip, 3 RRR, March 1988 – nominated show of the week

Bennett, A. “Imposition and Disposition.” MFA Exegesis, University of Tasmania, 1986.

Memberships & Honoray Positions

Member City of Banyule Arts & Cultural  Advisory Committee 2014-2020

Member of Advisory Committee and Cultural Vault Reference Group, City of Banyule  2011-13

Member of City of Yarra Visual Arts Advisory Committee 2014-2016

Member of City of Darebin Women’s Advisory Committee 2014-2015

Collections Management Intern, Ian Potter Museum of Art, The University of Melbourne 2014- 2015

Heide Museum of Modern Art (Visitor Services) 2012 – 2014

National Association of Visual Arts – current 202022021