Ground Swell Graecum Est Non Legitur by Scott Bennett

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ARTIST NOTES: Victoria Valley, Grampians National Park, Victoria Australia - Graecum est; non legitur (It is Greek, it canʼt be read)

Standing there in the landscape, I kept repeating to myself, how strange, I don't understand this. Geologically, it made sense and I had spent the last year as artist in residence in very similar country. Living in it and experiencing its seasons, I thought I should know it. My fathers mother was born in sight of these mountains which gave me comfort but didn't enable me to penetrate the mystery. I was reminded of the Zen saying, that the mountains and waters aren't mountains and waters. The feeling of estrangement was like the sound of a common word repeated until it becomes unfamiliar.

I'd been traveling the last few years, living and painting in the Australian bush and yet the more I saw, the stranger it became. Symbols stand for things, I wondered if I wasn't experiencing the thingness of symbols.

The land is old, grey, wrinkled and lined. It is paper thin and spotted like my fathers skin at the age of 93. Detail is its very nature, everything is dust-like, the grass, the leaves, the tiny flowers. Earth to earth, trees to ash, rocks to dust, blowing away, dissolving, it was disappearing while I watched.

I had been looking very hard but only found a continuum of phenomena. There are no landscapes out there, they only exist in Art.

DIMENSIONS (Height - 95.00 cm X Width - 115.00 cm )
MEDIUM ON BASE Charcoal on Paper
GENRE Landscape
REGISTERED NRN # 000-1922-0135-01
COPYRIGHT © Scott Bennett
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Scott Wilmot Bennett

Born 1963, Sydney, Australia, Queenslander since 1977, currently reside Wangaratta.

Web site    www.wilmotbennett.com 

Biography

2011            ‘Warra’ Residency, June Tupicoff mentorship, Wangaratta, Victoria

2010            Artist in Residence, Undara Volcanic National Park, Queensland

2009            Artist fulltime

2000 - 2009 Designer, ToadShow, Brisbane

2004, 2005 Sessional Lecturer (Cross Media), School of Arts, Griffith University

1998            Tutor in Multimedia, Griffith University

1994 - 1999 Photographer, PhotoReal, Brisbane

1994            Bachelor of Visual Art in Fine Art, Queensland College of Art Griffith University

 

Selected Exhibitions

2011            HBS Acquisitive Contemporary Art Award, Arts Wondonga, Vic (Finalist)

2011            41st Muswellbrook Open Art Prize, MRAC, NSW (Finalist)

2011            32nd Rotary Art Spectacular, Brisbane (Invitation)

2010            Firelight, Tabeland Regional Gallery, Atherton Qld (Solo exhibition)

2010            Opera in the Outback, solo exhibition, Undara Volcanic National Park

2010            31st Rotary Art Spectacular, Brisbane (Invitation)

2009            Tattersall’s Landscape Art Prize, Brisbane (Finalist)

2009            The Fitzgerald Collection, QCA Gallery, Brisbane Qld

2005, 2006 St Bernards Hotel Art Purchase Prize, Mt Tamborine, Queensland

2004            Real interactive exhibition, ACMI, Melbourne Vic

1994            This Is It With It As It Is, IMA, Brisbane Qld (Group exhibition)

1993            Foyer Gallery, group Exhibition, Queensland College of Art, Griffith University, Brisbane

1993            Oui Nine, group Exhibition, ISNT, Brisbane

1992            Foyer Gallery, Queensland College of Art, Griffith University, Brisbane

1991            Dreams Don't Dream, INCAS, group Exhibition, Michael Dhu Gallery, Brisbane

1991            Russell Street Studio, Queensland College of Art, Griffith University, Brisbane

1991            Jacaranda Art Society, The Grafton Regional Gallery, NSW

1981            Gallery Beta, Caloundra, group Exhibition with Olga Aggio and Phillip Davies.

1981            Gallery Beta, Caloundra, group Exhibition with Eric Whisson and Cornelia and Heidi

 

Online

2002 - present, The Wrong Crowd*, ABC

2000 Time Walks, d/w/p, State Library of Queensland

 

Public Art

2008            Surface Paradise - Pause & Play, Cnr Gold Coast Hwy & Waterways Drv, Main Beach

2006            The Sea On the Tide, Cnr Turbot & Edward St, Brisbane

 

Selected Awards

2012            Finalist – 2012 Myrtleford Arts Prize

2012            Merit prize – Corowa Federation Art Show, Judge: Barbara McManus,

2011            People’s Choice prize - Arts Wondonga HBS Contemporary Art Award,

2011            Local Scene prize - King Valley Art Show, Judge: Philip Davey

2005            Purchase prize - St Bernards Art Purchase Prize (Acquisitive), Judge: Dr. John Rigby

2004            Website award - Museums Australia (MAPDA), On the Bunya Trail*

2001            Grant  - AFC/ABC Documentary Online Initiative, The Wrong Crowd*

1992            Highly Commended - Caloundra Arts Festival

1991            Commendation - Nudgee College Art Excellence Award, Judge: Rhana Davenport QAG

1981            Emerging Artist prize - Caloundra Arts Festival (Acquisitive)

 

Collections

QCA visual archive, Griffith University

St Bernards Hotel

Caloundra Arts Festival

Monitor Money

Saxon Ltd

Various private collections in Australia and abroad

 

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