Darling Harbour from the top of the Harbour Control Tower, 2006 / painted by Jane Bennett

ML 1404

fonds

2006

Graphic Materials, Paintings

457560

1 painting - gouache on paper - 41 x 29 cm (sight) in frame 70 x 58 cm

Jane Bennett is a Sydney artist whose work focuses on the industrial side of Sydney, especially the Harbour foreshore and Harbour islands. She documents the disappearance or transformation of much of Sydney's industrial landscape.
She has been a finalist in the Sulman, Wynne and Dobell Prizes.

This work has been painted from the Harbour Control Tower, Merriman Street. It has been painted by courtesy of the Sydney Ports Corporation. It depicts East Darling Harbour, an area known in the 1930s and 1940s as The Hungry Mile. The New South Wales Government plans to rezone the area and develop it into a new city precinct. In October 2006, a State-wide naming competition was held to rename the area. A Competition Jury (consisting of The Hon. Paul Keating, Ms Elizabeth Anne Macgregor and Ms Margy Osmond) was appointed and on 18 October 2006, Barangaroo was announced as the new name for East Darling Harbour. The name was to honour the wife of Bennelong. -- Director General's Environmental Assessment Report, February 2007. '

Copyright status:: In copyright - Life of artist plus 70 years.
Copyright holder:: Jane Bennett
Rights and Restrictions Information:: The State Library of NSW has the right to reproduce and publish any work it owns by Jane Bennett ; Jane Bennett to be advised of each use. All other uses (not by State Library of NSW) must clear copyright with Jane Bennett.

This work was exhibited in `Lost Worlds. Cockatoo Island, Eveleigh and The Hungry Mile', a solo exhibition of recent paintings, at Taylor Galleries, Summer Hill, 28 June - 15 July 2007.

Signed `J Bennett', lower left.