Looking West from top of ANZAC Bridge, 1994 / mixed media drawing by Jane Bennett

ML 1433

fonds

1994

Graphic Materials, Paintings

897076

1 painting - mixed media - image 138 x 133 cm, in frame 159 x 152 cm

Jane Bennett is a Sydney artist whose work focuses on the industrial side of Sydney, especially the Harbour foreshore and islands. She documents the disappearance or transformation of much of Sydney's industrial landscape.

She has won over 80 prizes including the 1990, 1995 and 1996 Pring Prize. She has also been a finalist in the 1986, 1997 and 2008 Sulman Prize; 5 times finalist in the Wynne Prize (winning the 1995 Trustees prize for watercolour) and 6 times finalist in the Dobell Prize.

The artist had access to the western pylon of the ANZAC Bridge during it's construction.

Reference:
Library correspondence file

A mixed media work on paper which depicts the view looking west across Rozelle and Balmain from the western pylon of the ANZAC Bridge. White Bay Power Station can be seen top left, and the heritage listed Glebe Island wheat silos are top right. Depicts the ANZAC bridge under construction, with the access ramp and suspension cables of the bridge in the foreground. The now disused access road to the de-commissioned Glebe Island swing bridge can be seen lower right

Copyright status:: In copyright - Life of artist plus 70 years.
Copyright holder:: Jane Bennett
Rights and Restrictions Information:: The State Library of New South Wales 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 New South Wales) must clear copyright with Jane Bennett.
Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales and Courtesy Jane Bennett.

The work was painted from the same perspective as Closing the Gap, 1995 (ML 1418), another work by the artist. Where Closing the Gap shows the view east across Pyrmont towards the city, this work shows the view west across Balmain from the same vantage point.

Signed "J. Bennett", lower right

Dated from exhibition catalogue