Lot 260 - Jonathan R Bennett - Empty Rhetoric
Oil and marker pen on paper
2023
A6 (10x15cm)
Original Artwork
Signed on Verso
This auction is raising proceeds for The Hepatitis C Trust
ARTIST INFO
About
Jonathan Bennett was born in Stoke-on-Trent in 1962. He studied Fine Art at Leeds Polytechnic before moving to Sheffield, where he lived and worked as a practising artist. This period culminated with a one person show” at the Mappin Art Gallery in 1990. He then went on to do an MA in Site Specific Sculpture at Wimbledon School of Art. Since living in London, he has completed a number of public art commissions, worked in art education, exhibited his art work, played a bit of music, and started a landscape gardening business. He currently lives in Hackney with his partner, drawing and painting whenever he gets the opportunity.
Education
1990-92 Wimbledon School of Art, Site Specific Sculpture M.A.
1983-86 Leeds Polytechnic. Fine Art B.A. (hons).
1981-82 North Staffordshire Polytechnic, Foundation Art and Design.
Select Exhibitions/Awards
2023
Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London
2020
Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London
2019
TBW Drawing Prize, Touring Exhibition
2018
Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London
2017
Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London
1997
Just An Illusion, Darkroom Gallery, Cambridge
1996
Whitechapel Open, Commercial Gallery, London
1994
Extension, Bonington Gallery, Nottingham
1990
One Person Show, Mappin Art Gallery, Sheffield
1988
Two Person Show, Castlefield Gallery, Manchester
1985
Young Contemporaries, Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester
Statement about AOAP Submitted Artwork
My artwork is an ongoing exploration of style and technique and a search for the optimum balance between humour and pathos, profundity and absurdity, intrigue and ambiguity.
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