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Ben Tankard

Ben Tankard - Unpopular Penguin 1098 (Boy Swallows Universe)

Name: Ben Tankard - Unpopular Penguin 1098 (Boy Swallows Universe)
Brand: Ben Tankard
Price: 390.00 AUD
Availability: InStock

$390.00 AUD

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Original Artwork

40 x 35cm | Acrylic on canvas | Unframed | Ready to hang

About the Artist:

Ben’s background is in figurative and landscape painting, but since 2016 he has been concentrating on pop art, drawing imagery from sources such as Penguin book covers and the classic Monopoly board game. The first Unpopular Penguin painting was highly commended in the Blacktown City Art Prize, where Edmund Capon, former director of the Art Gallery of New South Wales said ‘it is an evocative imagining of the familiar Penguin paperback…it was a painting we all liked very much for its rich texture, its sense of memory and its sort of nostalgic humour’.

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