Anthony Bennett, self-portrait in the bathroom discussing beauty, bukowski and brett whiteley with my ex, now a stripper, who likes to dress as wonder woman, 2008This guy is definately THE artist to watch. Making it into the Archibald, The Wynne and The Sulman prizes with three different works and being the only artist whose work I actually like in any of the prizes (except Del Kathryn Barton) this artist is one of the strongest Aussie's of today. While Jasper Knight and Ben Quilty might be leading the young artist race, Anthony Bennett can paint more than just portraits and figure-ground and he drips better than Jasper! He ought to work on his titles though.
I took a photo of his landscape of insufficient green… where mountains are crushed for speaking out, but the gallery attendent made me delete it in front of him. When he wasn't looking I managed to get this snap of the idea of a michael hutchence haiku... wasn’t it nietzsche who first said god is dead and tom cruise is a dick?
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