His imagery quotes from Willem de Kooning, Andy Warhol, Brett Whiteley, Jean-Michel Basquiat and Cy Twombly.
His titles are integral components and often mash words into the perceptive equation to play off the imagery, adding to the semantic game and augmenting the mood of dissent, while also revealing much about his practice.
His work is contained in many private collections in Australia, New Zealand, Austria, China, Japan, Italy and England.Artist's folio site Bennett paints every day.
The death of Bennett's mother and brother in a car accident made him introspective and pushed him to explore the philosophers of the past.
The photographic exhibition 'tokyo lipstick' was the result, shown in Brisbane in 2002. super thanks for asking is the title of an exhibition in 2007 that continues with the use of portraits and in particular "celebrity" that started some years ago, in which Bennett paints iconic figures in garish hues and against a single colour backdrop, with sardonic commentary scrawled in tiny text.
Subjects include Andy Warhol, Brett Whiteley, Vincent van Gogh, Queen Elizabeth II, Salvador Dalí, Henri Matisse, Reg Mombassa and Peter Garrett.