Gordon Bennett's Appropriation Art

Australian contemporary artist Gordon Bennett’s acrylic painting Camouflage #7, references the war in Iraq and issues of secrecy, depicting the late Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein. Evident in Bennet’s incorporation of appropriation art in his creative method, ‘remix culture’ enables artists to open up and re-define the way language and images construct identity and history.
An interdisciplinary art practice consisting of painting, print, photography, installation and performance reflects how Bennett is heavily influenced by both critical and aesthetic strategies of postmodernism. The complex and multi-layered nature of his works often feature ‘borrowed’ and ‘appropriated’ imagery that are referenced from sources such as the history of western