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Jane Bennett
Awarded Diploma of Arts in 1982, & Post Graduate Diploma in Professional Art Studies at C.O.F.A., University of N.S.W. in 1983. Has held 16 solo exhibitions since 1986, & been included in many selective group exhibitions.
Jane received the prestigious Marten Bequest Travelling Art Scholarship for Painting in 1996 & was also awarded the 1996 Dyason Bequest by the Trustees of the Art Gallery of N.S.W., enabling her to travel & paint extensively throughout Europe & the U.S.A. for 2 years. In 1997 the Trustees of the Art Gallery of N.S.W. awarded Jane a residency for 3 months at the Moya Dyring Studio of the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris, & she received a further residency at the Studio of the American Academy in Rome.
Jane has been a finalist in the 1986 & 1997 Sulman Prize for Genre/History Painting, five times a finalist in the Dobell Prize for Drawing & six times a finalist in the Wynne Prize for Landscape, winning the 1990, 1995 & 1996 Pring Prize for Watercolour & the 1995 Trustees’ Prize for Watercolour in the Wynne Prize, Art Gallery of N.S.W. Jane is also the recipient of over 80 art prizes, & has completed many major commissions for government & corporate clients.
Jane’s work is represented in the collection of Artbank; the Kedumba Contemporary Drawing Gallery; many Regional Gallery & Municipal Council Collections; Department of Defence; University of N.S.W.; many corporate & private collections throughout Australia, the U.S.A., the U.K., Hong Kong & Japan. | 
