Andrew Bennett is a contemporary Australian Artist who works primarily
in acrylics on canvas.
Early studies
His interest in painting began in late high school, when his early studies
of perspective and still life studies won the Sydney Morning Heral Art
Heritage Prize in 1983. He began university studies in physics 1984, but
soon switched to fine arts, majoring in painting and photography at the
City Institue of Art (now known as College of Fine Arts, UNSW).
Exhibitions & Collections
Since graduating in 1987, Andrew has pursued his career as a full-time
artist, exhibiting regularly in Sydney, Melbourne and the Central Coast.
His works are held in numerous Australian and International collections
in Europe, the US, the Middle East and Canada.
Travelling extensively throughout his career, Andrew has consistenly sought
to draw together subject matter from a variety of sources, reflective of
his fascination with light, texture, perspective and ideas.
Andrew's painting, The Casual Farmer, was included as part of the 2008
Wynne Prize exhibition at the Art Gallery of NSW. |
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