Soul Ready or Not

Gordon Bennett   (Australian, 1955–2014) FIGURE 1 - Home décor (Preston + de Stijl = Citizen) Panorama 1997 synthetic polymer paint on canvas 400 x 200 cm FIGURE 2 - Home Decor (Preston + De Stijl = Citizen) Life in the Rhythm Section 1996 acrylic on canvas 100.0 x 100.0 cm FIGURE 3 - Preston + de Stijl = Citizen (black swan of trespass). 1996. inkjet print, printed in colour, from digital file FIGURE 4 - Home decor (relative/absolute) - flowers for Mathinna 1988 The work called “Flowers for Mathinna” from the Home Décor series by Australian artist Gordon Bennett (see figure 4)   can be seen as an example of powerful appropriation and visual assassination of the colonial invasion of Terra Nullius.   Gordon Bennett utilizes a unique technique to explore his own identity, half Indigenous/English, and consequently challenges the glorified history of Australian colonization where legal possession was taken by British government due to the classification of this...