Anne Bennett is a visual artist, whose practice encompasses painting, drawing, printmaking, artists books, installation and curatorial projects. Anne who holds a PhD in Visual Arts, is represented in numerous collections, including National Gallery of Victoria. She has exhibited her art in excess of 100 exhibitions at commercial and public galleries, nationally and internationally. Her paintings, drawings and prints have featured in solo exhibitions at Tolarno Galleries, Pinacotheca, Plimsoll Gallery Hobart, the Faculty Gallery MADA, Monash University, and have appeared in curated and prize shows at NGV, and other public galleries throughout Australian, Korea, China, Lithuania and UK. Anne who was named on the 2016 Dean’s Honour List for Academic Excellence in Art Curatorship at The University of Melbourne has curated nine interdisciplinary group exhibitions a range of public, university, artist run initiatives and pop up galleries. 

For many years Anne’s work has investigated dualist themes stemming from the Garden of Eden myth. Recently, with focus firmly on collapsing the Nature/Culture divide, Anne explores our relationship to Melbourne’s environment, Yarra River and Banyule’s waterways, making large-scale public art installations for Melbourne Docklands, Tilde New Music Festival, Testing Grounds, Hatch Contemporary Arts Space, Banyule City Council’s WaterMarc and Warringal Shopping Centre. Following the success of her collaboration with Jutta Pryor (projections), Megan Kenny (flute) and Scott Dunbabin (bass) for the Light After Dark performance event at Dimension Art Project Space in April 2022, Anne initiated the ongoing multi-sensorial project, Forest of Hope.