Artist Terry Bennett at his Nottingham studio
TERRY BENNETT
Before retiring in 2009, Terry Bennett was Professor of Physiology and Head of the School of Biomedical Sciences in the Medical School at the University of Nottingham (having graduated with a Ph.D. from the University of Melbourne in 1970).
Sam Bennett at the Infinarty exhibition at The Wharf Gallery for contemporary fine art in Raglan, New Zealand
SAM BENNETT
Sam has returned from New Zealand where he devised the state-of-the-art. Bluetooth-controlled light boxes that bring Infinarty pieces to life and has further developed the concept to promote wellbeing through light-based art.
The Art
The primary images are made using water-based and/or organic solvent-based paints.
Most completed pieces involve superimposing at least two images (front and rear); the front image is usually on non-glare acrylic sheet, whereas the rear image is on translucent plastic (to allow the piece to be backlit).
The finished artwork Is often the result of pairing a newly-produced front image with a rear image taken from a collection produced over the last thirty years. Thus, each completed piece is unique and serendipitous, inasmuch as there is no way of knowing how it will look until it is finally assembled.
Different combinations of front and rear images can produce strikingly disparate effects, especially when backlit, and it is the appearance of these unexpected, emergent properties which the artist selects for.
