Troy bennell biography

Troy Bennell, Noongar artist and member of the Balardung people, was born in 1971 in Bunbury, Western Australia. He completed a course in Aboriginal Studies at Bunbury’s South West Regional College of TAFE in 1988.

In his younger years, Bennell was a member of the Middar Dance Group.

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Bennell began painting after attending a workshop with Lance Chadd , and enhanced his skills after participating in another workshop with Shane Pickett ; his uncles Danny and Lenny Khan (his mother’s brothers) have been important reference points for Bennell’s artistic practice.

Bennell has also been inspired by the Carrolup 'school’ of artists who made paintings at the Carrolup Native Settlement in the 1940s and 1950s, and his family has connections with two of those artists, Reynold Hart and Revel Cooper.

In Koorah Coolingah (Children Long Ago) (2006), Bennell is quoted as saying:
“Mum can remember watching Reynold Hart and Revel Cooper, especially Reynold Hart in