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Kiera Bennett

Place of birth Oldham
Country of residence United Kingdom

Kiera Bennett paints places and things she knows. Particular places that inspire fleeting moments of heightened awareness, clarity, fantasy and feelings of solitude or harmony. To attempt to make memories and these elusive sensations tangible is simply the starting point and possibly futile but then it becomes about painting and that’s something else. Other things enter, like other paintings, art history, music, film, literature…
Landscape has been a recurring theme in Bennett’s work for the last few years, first represented in her intricate paper collages and more recently in large scale paintings – characters, often solitary, both human and animal drift in and out of the work. She implies a narrative but it’s non specific. Bennett sources references from childhood vacations, novels, fairytales and landscape painting to direct experience of contemporary urban and rural landscapes. With this imagery in mind she creates timeless environments that evoke the sublime and pathways that lead us toward the unknowable.

Exhibitions The Future Can Wait, 15.Oct - 19.Oct.08, CHARLIE SMITH london, The Future Can Wait, 10.Oct - 14.Oct.07, CHARLIE SMITH london, Winter Exhibition 2006, 26.Jan - 26.Feb.06, Contemporary Art Projects, Acid Drops & Sugar Candy, 19.Nov - 18.Dec.05, Contemporary Art Projects, John Moores 23, 18.Sep - 28.Nov.04, Walker Art Gallery

 

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