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BEN FENNESSY

Toolong Road | Ben Fennessy | Artist | Fennessy Fine Art
West Point | Ben Fennessy | Artist | Fennessy Fine Art | Acrylic and oil on board
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Southern Flow | Ben Fennessy | Artist | Fennessy Fine Art | Acrylic and oil on board
Von Guerard 2 |  Ben Fennessy | Artist | Fennessy Fine Art | Acrylic and oil on board |

PAINTER AND PRINT MAKER

Painer Print Maker

Ben Fennessy was born in Melbourne and at age thirteen began taking painting and drawing lessons from Bill Coleman (painter and printmaker from the George Bell School). At sixteen, Ben won a scholarship to attend the National Gallery Art School, where he studied painting and drawing in the 1960s and he did further studies at the Victorian College of the Arts in the 1980s. Ben has been a practising artist for over half a century and has been exhibiting since 1972. Solo and group exhibitions have been held in Melbourne, Geelong, Ballarat, Lorne, Queenscliff, Warrnambool, Swan Hill, Mildura, Gold Coast and Torino & Genoa, Italy. For many years, Ben was a secondary and tertiary arts educator in Geelong, Melbourne and Colac.

Landscape is the primary inspiration for Ben's artwork, in particular the environment of the wild Victorian South West Coast on Gunditjmara land, and the volcanic plains from Budj Bim to Deen Maar, Mt Elephant to Tower Hill.

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REVIEW BY PAUL JENNINGS

 MARY-ANNE FAHEY  

'Inside our front door, hanging in pride of place, is a compelling landscape by Ben Fennessy. This moody, evocative print immediately compels visitors to pause and reflect. The portrayal of Mt Noorat is both dramatic and enigmatic. It hints at the splendour and overwhelming power of nature by cleverly telling us just a little less than we would like to know. One always feels compelled to return for another look.'

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