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Billy Benn Perrurle Australian Aboriginal Landscape Paintings, Set of 3
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Billy Benn Perrurle Australian Aboriginal Landscape Paintings, Set of 3
Offered for sale is a set of three Australian aboriginal landscape paintings by artist Billy Benn. Billy Benn Perrurle or Billy Benn (c. 1943 - 14 October 2012) was an Alyawarre landscape artist, with a disability, who worked with the Bindi Mwerre Anthurre Artists. His paintings celebrate the land of his people, near Harts Range in the Northern Territory, and his personal knowledge of it.
Benn was born in Artetyerre (Harts Range) to an Alyawarre father and an Akarre mother. Benn learned to paint as a teenager, first from his sisters Ally and Gladdy on hide/skin and then, as he remembers, from a 'Chinese lady'. Benn's father, Jimmy Kemerre, was most known for creating beautiful traditional artefacts; including boomerangs and spears. However, he must have also been involved in teaching his son as he was also an artist.
In his youth, starting around the age of 10, Benn worked around Central Australia for a number of mining companies, including the Harts Range Mica Field and the Arltunga Goldfields (now Arltunga Historical Reserve), mostly in the employ of Simon Rieff. During this period Benn remembered working with a lot of Italian migrants and fondly remembered lunches of spaghetti; saying "good food, those Italian people". Benn was not paid for his work and, instead received food and clothing.
Following this period, at an unknown date, Benn began working at a series of cattle stations in the region where he pumped water for cattle, drove sheep and cattle across country and became an experienced Aboriginal tracker. Again, in these roles, he was unpaid.
On 5 August 1967, Benn fatally shot former colleague Harry Neale 14 times while he was sleeping in his swag nearby the Hart Range racecourse. After the shooting Benn, along with 16 family members, went into hiding in the nearby ranges and, in the subsequent manhunt, he wounded two policemen and spent two weeks in hiding. Ultimately he was found by tracker Ted Egan; assisted by Sonny Woods and a young boy known only as William.
Later Benn was acquitted of the charges of murder, on the grounds of insanity as he had schizophrenia, and served 15 years in jail and 2 years in a mental health institution in Adelaide where he started painting on whatever he could find. Benn always remembered Albert Namatjira, who he once met with his "flash shirt, good hat and big truck" as an inspiration.
In 1981 Benn returned to Central Australia, to the regional centre Alice Springs, where he started working for Bindi Inc., an organization established to provide employment opportunities, support and advocacy for people with a disability, where he worked constructing metal boxes. In the 1990s, during his breaks, Benn began painting on off-cuts of timber and metal and, in doing so, began to map out his father's country; which he had not seen since his arrest. Benn's clear talent led to Bindi Mwerre Anthurre Artists being founded around him in 2000.
At Bindi Mwerre Anthurre Artists Benn's paintings remained true to their origins, in the workshop, and were often created on salvaged timber and he often fostered the talents of his fellow artists; including Aileen Oliver and Seth Namatjira.
In 2009, in his seventies and his health deteriorating, Benn and Catherine Peattie, started working on a book about his life and art and Benn was finally able to return to Harts Range, which he hadn't seen in 40 years. This book, Billy Benn, was released in 2011.
Benn died on 14 October 2012 and his funeral was held, in Alice Springs, on 26 October 2012.
Dimensions: Height: 7.25 in (18.42 cm)
Width: 18 in (45.72 cm)
Depth: 0.75 in (1.91 cm)
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- Dimensions
- 18ʺW × 0.75ʺD × 7.25ʺH
- Art Subjects
- Landscape
- Frame Type
- Unframed
- Period
- Late 20th Century
- Country of Origin
- Australia
- Item Type
- Vintage, Antique or Pre-owned
- Materials
- Canvas
- Paint
- Wood
- Condition
- Good Condition, Original Condition Unaltered, Some Imperfections
- Color
- Purple
- Condition Notes
- in good condition in good condition less
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