Gordon Bennett

Vizard Collection
Gordon BennettBody print F1 1994

synthetic polymer paint on canvas
160 x 120 cm (2 sheets)
Purchased 1995
Courtesy of the artist and Sutton Gallery
Photography: Robert Colvin

I wish to reinstate a sense of Aboriginal people within the culturally dominant system of representation as human beings, rather than as a visual sign that signifies the “primitive”, the “noble savage”, or some other European construct associated with black skin.’1


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