Places of Delight

Robby Bennett presents a new body of paintings that draws together antiquities, pastoral imagery and still-life traditions. Historical artefacts, landscape fragments and symbolic objects are woven together through expressive painterly gestures. Celestial forms, architectural fragments, flowers, vessels and enigmatic figures drift between recognition and abstraction, with objects appearing untethered from conventional space and time. Neither wholly landscape nor still life, these paintings occupy a space where memory, mythology and perception converge. Bennett constructs immersive visual fields in which disparate elements coexist in delicate equilibrium, encouraging viewers to navigate relationships between past and present, reality and imagination, presence and absence.