Posted by Jason Benjamin Death – Died: Australian painter Jason Benjamin has passed on at 50 years of age.
The scene skilled worker and Archibald prize multi-finalist, who guaranteed out the Packing Room Reward for his image of performer Bill Hunter in 2005, vanished from Carrathool in NSW’s western Riverina territory all through the week’s end.
Police recuperated Benjamin’s body from the Murrumbidgee River on Tuesday.
Murrumbidgee police say a report will be prepared for the coroner as examinations concerning the Broken Hill-based expert’s passing continue.
Benjamin’s Sydney merchant, Ralph Hobbs, said he had essentially tended to the specialist seven days prior about his looming show.
“He said was taking off growth to make a couple of materials and a couple of pieces that would be [part of] the presentation,” Hobbs said.
“You know, he was to a great extent, in any case, he seemed, by all accounts, to be genuinely up and really amped up for this gathering of work that he was doing. He was in uncommon spirits.”
Hobbs portrayed Benjamin’s specific tremendous degree scene capacities as nostalgic and especially allegorical.
Even though Melbourne-considered, he spent occasions of his childhood in the US and Mexico and learned at the Pratt Institute in New York City.
Right when he returned to Australia during the 1990s, he began gathering awards for his work, winning the Mosman Art prize in 1993, 1994 and 1996 and the Kings School Art Prize for scene painting in 1997.
Regardless, it was his Archibald portrayals that gained him public thought, first with the Bill Hunter section, named Staring Down At The Past, in 2005, and following photos of the Drones frontman Gareth Liddiard (2011), singular specialist McLean Edwards (2013), You Am I entertainer Tim Rogers (2014) and craftsman Paul Kelly (2015).
He has had more than 40 execution shows in Australia, Tokyo, London, Hong Kong, Singapore and Rome.
Quarterly workmanship journal Artist Profile depicted Benjamin as “a specialist of the mixed message”.
“[Jeffrey] Smart asked watchers to put themselves in the picture, Benjamin leaves us apparently looking in.”
Hobbs said Benjamin had his demons, “felt pressure fundamentally” and “found solace freedom to help him through.
“However, he was fantastically fiery about presence and love … all that he did was a flooding of feeling.”
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