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Artyetyerre - Harts Range 2008

Accession No.
2008.314
Date Created
2008
Gallery location
Not on public display
Department
Indigenous Australian Art
Dimensions A
150 x 300cm
Media Category
Painting
Secondary Media Category
synthetic polymer paint
Medium
Synthetic polymer paint on canvas
Place Created
Mwerre Anthurre Art Centre, Alice Springs, NT
Credit Line
Purchased 2008. Queensland Art Gallery Foundation

Billy Benn was influenced by the tradition of the Hermannsburg School of landscape painting while living in Alice Springs and has combined this with the bright, colourful and highly gestural Alyawarre painting style to depict his country around Utopia. Comparisons between Billy Benn and Albert Namatjira go beyond the fact that both artists’ works represent physical landscapes of traditional country in a Western pictorial style. When asked about the influence Namatjira’s art had on him, Benn replied through Bindi Art Coordinator, Matt Goff: ‘Billy has great respect for Namatjira. He likes his paintings a lot and he always talks about Namatjira’s paintings. He is the only artist Billy talks about and respects’.
 

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© Kwementyaye Benn

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Irene Mbitjana Entata / Arrernte/Luritja people / Australia NT 1946–2014 / Albert and Rex painting (detail) 2003 / Purchased 2003. Queensland Art Gallery Foundation / © Irene Mbitjana Entata

‘Namatjira to Now’

Oct 2008 - Feb 2009

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