Gordon Bennett: Be Polite Subject / Asia Pacific Art She can swing and have

She can swing and have a picnic

This is an important work of great scholarship

from the shining coasts to inland deserts

and Naomi Riddle

Gordon Bennett: Be Polite Subject / Asia Pacific Art She can swing and haveGordon Bennett: Be Polite follows the exhibition of largely unseen works on paper by one of Australias most visionary and critical artists, Gordon Bennett (19552014). The exhibition and publication are the first to present the work of Bennett since his untimely death. Though rarely seen in exhibition contexts, Bennetts drawing and writing formed the foundation of his practice. Paper was often the site where imagery, words, and ideas found their first