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Born 1955 Monto, Queensland, Australia. Gordon Bennett is a painter and multi-media artist. He holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Fine Arts from the Queensland College of Art. He describes his background as indigenous Australian as being fundamental to his view of life and his artistic expression. Racial prejudices he suffered early in his life served as a base for a series of work that he produced. Using derogatory terms of language he encountered such as “Boong” , “Coon” and “Darkie” he created a powerful work which explored the ethnocentric boundaries implicit in language. He is an artist whose work makes distinct social comments. As he says, “ I see much of my work as history painting, not as documentary history painting but rather painting that investigates the way history is constructed after the event...” (Liz Thompson, Aboriginal Voices; Contemporary Aboriginal Artists, Writers and Performers, Simon and Schuster, 1990.
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