Will Bennett lives and paints in Wellington and completed his Bachelor of Fine Arts (Honours) at Massey University Wellington in 2016. Bennett’s painting practice engages with notions of the New Zealand Gothic, photography, memory, the ordinary everyday and moments from the past.
Bennett has had several solo and group exhibitions across Aotearoa. Recent exhibitions include: Polyester Soldiers Stitch Witches, Always Forever Now, Summer Selection and One (Jhana Millers Gallery, 2019-2020); Burnt Bridge (Anderson Rhodes Gallery, 2019); and Gone with Makura (Precinct 35, 2017). Bennett was a finalist in the Adam Portrait Award at the New Zealand Portrait Gallery in 2014.
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