DOMAIN

DOMAIN
03 Mar 2005
Taylor Galleries

DOMAIN

Thursday 3 March to Sunday 20 March 2005

'Domain Figtree', acrylic on canvas 75 x 100 cms

An exhibition by award-winning artist

JANE BENNETT

Features 'memento mori' paintings that record the destruction of the Domain figtrees and the social impact; that express the eternal conflict between hope for the future and regret for loss of the past.

OFFICIAL OPENING

Anni Turnbull, Assistant Curator, Australian History and Society Powerhouse Museum, 7.30pm

PREVIEW

Wednesday 2 March 2005, 6.30pm to 8.30pm.

Artist's Biography and Selected Images from the Exhibition

Awarded Diploma of Arts in 1982, & Post Graduate Diploma in professional Art Studies at C.O.F.A., University of N.S.W. in 1983. Has held 16 solo exhibitions since 1986, & been included in many selective group exhibitions. Jane received the prestigious Marten Bequest Travelling Art Scholarship for Painting in 1996 & was also awarded the 1996 Dyason Bequest by the Trustees of the Art Gallery of N.S.W., enabling her to travel & paint extensively throughout Europe & the U.S.A. for 2 years. In 1997 the Trustees of the Art Gallery of N.S.W. awarded Jane a residency for 3 months at the Moya Dyring Studio of the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris, & she received a further residency at the Studio of the American Academy in Rome.

Jane has been a finalist in the 1986 & 1997 Sulman Prize for Genre/History Painting, 5 times a finalist in the Dobell Prize for Drawing & 6 times a finalist in the Wynne Prize for Landscape, winning the 1990, 1995 & 1996 Pring Prize for Watercolour & the 1995 Trustees’ Prize for Watercolour in the Wynne Prize, Art Gallery of N.S.W. Jane is also the recipient of over 80 art prizes, & has completed many major commissions for government & corporate clients.

Jane’s work is represented in the collection of Artbank; the National Trust; Department of Defence; University of N.S.W.; Kedumba Contemporary Drawing Gallery; many Regional Gallery & Municipal Council Collections; many corporate & private collections throughout Australia, the U.S.A., the U.K., Hong Kong & Japan.