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Title:  Bearing Witness

Medium: Acrylic and oil pastel on canvas

Size: 112cm X 102cm

　

Margery Hummel Bennett - Australia

Born:

1934 Melbourne, Australia

 

Occupation:

Artist & Teacher

 

Education:

1985-1989 Bachelor of Arts (Fine Arts) – Painting,

                     Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology

1979-1981 Bachelor of Arts Studies Monash University,

                     Melbourne

 

Media:

Acrylic, oil, gouache and various mixed media.

Lithographic prints.

 

Experiences related to art:

1997-2006     Teaching, Council of Adult Education (CAE)

1992-1997     Teaching Holmesglen College of TAFE, Melbourne.

1991-1996     Produced lithographic prints,

                         Australian Print Workshop

1981-1986     Council Members, Victorian Artists Society  (VAS)

1980-2006     Teaching Mentone-Mordialloc Art Group

1975-2006     Teaching privately, currently teaching in Studio 10, Fitzroy

 

Honours and awards:

Numerous Council and local awards

 

Solo Exhibitions:

1999               Chiara Goya Gallery, Fitzroy, Melbourne

1983               Colonial House, Brighton, Melbourne

1981               Mentone Galleries, Mentone, Melbourne

1977, 1978     Munster Arms Gallery, Melbourne

 

Group Exhibitions:

2006     Her Presence in Colours VII, International Women Artists 

               Exhibition, ‘Life of Colours’, Dague Art and Cultural Centre, 

               Dague, Korea             

2006     Her Presence in Colours VII, Her Light in Native Colours,

              Australian Chapter,

              Manningham Gallery, Doncaster, Victoria

2005     YEAH (Youth Empowerment Against HIV/Aids), ‘The World

              We Live In’, Melbourne Museum, Victoria  

2005     Dominique Segan Drawing Prize, Castlemaine State 

              Festival, Victoria

2004     Her Presence in Colours VI, International Women Artists 

              Exhibition, ‘Close to The Heart’, Manningham Gallery, 

              Doncaster, Victoria

2004     Drawing As Possibility, Grafton Regional Gallery Acquisitive

              Drawing Collection,

             toured regional galleries in NSW

2002     The Albury Art Prize 2002, Albury Regional Art Gallery, NSW

1998     The Bathurst Art Purchase, Bathurst Regional Gallery, NSW

1996     The Fremantle Print Award, Fremantle Arts Centre, WA

1994     Jacaranda Acquisitive Drawing Award, Grafton Regional

              Gallery, NSW

 

Important Collections:  

Council collections: Melbourne City, Brighton City, Mornington Peninsula Shire, Mordialloc City

College collections: St Kevin’s (Toorak), Methodist Ladies, Hawthorn Teachers

Regional gallery collection: Grafton (Drawing), Bathurst, Albury

Various: Commonwealth Art Bank, Alice Foundation, Private collections, Works on Paper Collection

　

　

　

Margery Hummel Bennett

Australia

　

Life for refugees is a struggle requiring great courage and humanity. ‘Bearing Witness’ is a testimony to a courageous Iraqi women, Amal Basry, who survived when the Gates of Hell opened up as the boat known as the SIEV-X capsized and sank on its way to Australia on October 19th 2001. Not content with surviving, Amal retold her story over and over so that the 253 victims, including 46 children, would not be forgotten in their ‘flight to freedom’. The perilous journeys of our forebears, along with the presence and wisdom of indigenous peoples, remind is to openly question ourselves, our state of justice, compassion and understanding of who we are as a nation. In this fifth anniversary of the sinking of the SIEV-X we will not forget this brave women who died of cancer on March 18th 2006. The journey of her life was a tragic irony - a mirror to our troubled times.

 

　

　

　

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