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Artist Jane Bennett
Born	Jane Ann Cooper Bennett 1960 Manly, New South Wales
Nationality	Australian
Alma mater	Alexander Mackie College of Advanced Education
Awards	Wynne Prize 1990 and 1995 1996 Wynne Pring Prize for Watercolour 1995 Wynne Trustees’ Prize for Watercolour

Jane Ann Cooper Bennett (born in 1960) is a talented Australian painter. She is well-known for her artworks that show how cities change and grow, especially focusing on old industrial and port areas.

About Jane Bennett

Jane Ann Cooper Bennett was born in 1960 in Manly, Australia. She grew up in Seaforth with her mother and grandparents. Jane went to Mackellar Girls High School and Ku-ring-gai High School.

In 1979, she started studying art at the Alexander Mackie College of Advanced Education. She earned a Diploma of Fine Arts in 1982. The next year, she completed a Graduate Diploma in Art Studies.

Jane Bennett has won many art awards. She was a finalist in the important Sir John Sulman Prize three times. She was also a finalist five times for the Dobell Prize. For the Wynne Prize, she was a finalist six times. She won the Wynne Prize's Pring Prize for Watercolour in 1990, 1995, and 1996. In 1995, she also won the Wynne Trustees’ Prize for Watercolour. Overall, she has won more than 120 art prizes during her career, which has lasted over 30 years.

Jane's Art Style

Jane Bennett is a plein air painter. This means she likes to paint outdoors, directly from what she sees. She loves to capture how cities change over time. She is famous for her paintings of old industrial and port areas around Sydney that are no longer in use.

Her art often shows places like:

• Old power stations in Balmain, Pyrmont, and White Bay.
• The CSR Refinery and AGL Gasworks.
• The Carlton United Brewery and Eveleigh Railway Workshops.
• Cockatoo Island and various wharves. These include wharves at White Bay, Glebe Island, Pyrmont, Barangaroo, Walsh Bay, and Woolloomooloo.

Her artworks are displayed in many important collections. These include:

• State Library of New South Wales
• Artbank
• National Trust of Australia
• University of New South Wales
• University of Sydney
• Department of Defence (Australia)

Gallery

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  'Hail Hail the Gang’s All Here - Sydney Heritage Fleet at Rozelle', 2013, oil on canvas, 122 x 183 cm, © Jane Bennett

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  'Last Hope - Hopetoun Hotel', 2009, mixed media on paper, 107 x 140 cm, © Jane Bennett

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  'The Hungry Mile from the Harbour Control Tower 2', 2008, gouache on paper, 101 x 76 cm, © Jane Bennett

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  'The empty wharf from shed 5', oil on canvas, 100 x 122 cm, 2008, © Jane Bennett

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  'Pub with no beer II - Carlton United Brewery', 2009, oil on canvas, © Jane Bennett

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  'Millers Point from top of Harbour Tower', ink acrylic gouache on paper, 120 x 131 cm, © Jane Bennett

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  'The Falstaff with the tug Woona', oil on canvas, 36 x 45 cm, © Jane Bennett