Jane Bennett (artist)

Jane Ann Cooper Bennett (born 1960) is an Australian painter.

Jane Bennett
Artist Jane Bennett
Born
Jane Ann Cooper Bennett

1960
Manly, New South Wales
NationalityAustralian
Alma materAlexander Mackie College of Advanced Education
AwardsWynne Prize 1990 and 1995
1996 Wynne Pring Prize for Watercolour
1995 Wynne Trustees’ Prize for Watercolour

Biography

Born at Manly, New South Wales, Australia in 1960, Bennett's parents divorced before her birth. She was raised by her mother and grandparents in the family home at Seaforth and attended Mackellar Girls High School at Manly Vale and Ku-ring-gai High School at North Turramurra. In 1979 she enrolled at the Alexander Mackie College of Advanced Education attaining a Diploma of Fine Arts in 1982 and a Graduate Diploma in Art Studies the subsequent year.

Amongst the many accolades she has received, Bennett achieved recognition as a finalist in the 1986,[1] 1997[2] and 2008[3] Sir John Sulman Prize, 5 times a finalist in the Dobell Prize[4] and 6 times a finalist in the Wynne Prize,[5] winning the 1990,[6] 1995[7] and 1996 Pring Prize for Watercolour[8] and the 1995 Trustees’ Prize for Watercolour.[7] In total she has won over 120 art prizes in a career spanning more than 30 years.

Art

Bennett is a plein air painter with a passion for recording the process of urban renewal. She is renowned for her paintings of abandoned industrial and maritime sites in and around Sydney. Subjects of her art include: Balmain, Pyrmont and White Bay Power Stations, CSR Refinery, AGL Gasworks, Carlton United Brewery, Eveleigh Railway Workshops, Cockatoo Island and wharves at White Bay, Glebe Island, Pyrmont, Barangaroo, Walsh Bay and Woolloomooloo.

Her work is represented in many collections including:

  • 'Hail Hail the Gang’s All Here - Sydney Heritage Fleet at Rozelle', 2013, oil on canvas, 122 x 183 cm, © Jane Bennett
    'Hail Hail the Gang’s All Here - Sydney Heritage Fleet at Rozelle', 2013, oil on canvas, 122 x 183 cm, © Jane Bennett
  • 'Last Hope - Hopetoun Hotel', 2009, mixed media on paper, 107 x 140 cm, © Jane Bennett
    'Last Hope - Hopetoun Hotel', 2009, mixed media on paper, 107 x 140 cm, © Jane Bennett
  • 'The Hungry Mile from the Harbour Control Tower 2', 2008, gouache on paper, 101 x 76 cm, © Jane Bennett
    'The Hungry Mile from the Harbour Control Tower 2', 2008, gouache on paper, 101 x 76 cm, © Jane Bennett
  • 'The empty wharf from shed 5', oil on canvas, 100 x 122 cm, 2008, © Jane Bennett
    'The empty wharf from shed 5', oil on canvas, 100 x 122 cm, 2008, © Jane Bennett
  • 'Pub with no beer II - Carlton United Brewery', 2009, oil on canvas, © Jane Bennett
    'Pub with no beer II - Carlton United Brewery', 2009, oil on canvas, © Jane Bennett
  • 'Millers Point from top of Harbour Tower', ink acrylic gouache on paper, 120 x 131 cm, © Jane Bennett
    'Millers Point from top of Harbour Tower', ink acrylic gouache on paper, 120 x 131 cm, © Jane Bennett
  • 'The Falstaff with the tug Woona', oil on canvas, 36 x 45 cm, © Jane Bennett
    'The Falstaff with the tug Woona', oil on canvas, 36 x 45 cm, © Jane Bennett

See also

References
  1. "Sir John Sulman Prize 1986". Art Gallery of New South Wales. Retrieved 11 February 2014.
  2. "Sir John Sulman Prize 1997". Art Gallery of New South Wales. Retrieved 11 February 2014.
  3. "Sir John Sulman Prize 2008". Art Gallery of New South Wales. Retrieved 11 February 2014.
  4. "Dobell Prize for Drawing". Art Gallery of New South Wales. Retrieved 11 February 2014.
  5. "Wynne Prize". Art Gallery of New South Wales. Retrieved 11 February 2014.
  6. "Wynne Prize 1990". Art Gallery of New South Wales. Retrieved 11 February 2014.
  7. "Wynne Prize 1995". Art Gallery of New South Wales. Retrieved 11 February 2014.
  8. "Wynne Prize 1996". Art Gallery of New South Wales. Retrieved 11 February 2014.

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