Lot 75

The artwork is in very good condition overall. Two surface/light scuff marks are present on the work, located lower right centre and upper right corner. A pin-head sized piece of surface paint is flaking, located in the upper right hand corner.


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Private collection, Melbourne

RELATED WORK:
Possession Island (Abstraction) 1991, oil and synthetic polymer paint on canvas, 182 x 182cm, in the (joint) Collection of the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, Sydney, and the Tate, London.

Psychotopographical Landscape (Pastoral) no. 10 1990, is based on an early 20th Century work by artist Hans Heysen. The original image shows the Australian landscape through the eyes of the European settler. Bennett recontextualises this work with imagery mirroring the dot aesthetic of the Indigenous peoples of the Western Desert Movement while referencing the Aboriginal flag using red, yellow and black. This visual commentary is Bennett's response to the devastation that Aboriginal have people suffered due to European colonisation.