Gordon Bennett
Myth of the Western Man (White Man’s Burden) 1992
An important contemporary form of political intervention involves the reinterpretation of Australian history and politics from an Aboriginal point of view. Gordon Bennett lives in Brisbane and one of his aims in this painting is to recast Australian history from an Aboriginal perspective.
Bennett did not learn about his Aboriginal ancestry until he was 11 years old. He said it took him the next 18 years to come to grips with the fact of its concealment: “
My work is an attempt to come to grips with my own socialisation.” 
Myth of the Western Man appropriates an image of an early Australian pioneer, clinging to a tent pole. There are gaps of blue in the field of white dotting and dates have been stencilled into these blanks, each commemorating an event important in the Aboriginal history of Australia and relevant to the historical context of Bennett’s painting.
Some of these dates are:
1788-	Colony established and flag raised
1803-	First colony established in Tasmania
1804-	First massacre of Aborigines in Tasmania at Risdon Cove
1813-	Blaxland, Wentworth and Lawson cross the Blue Mountains into Wiradjuri tribal lands
1824-	Massacres of Wiradjuri people
1972-	Aboriginal Tent Embassy set up in Canberra. Gough Witlam elected as Prime Minister and Blue Poles by Jackson Pollock purchased for Australia.
1992-	Mabo Case is won- Terra Nullius is overturned.
In this work, Bennett quotes images from other artists-  most conspicuously, Jackson Pollock (Blue Poles) and Aboriginal artists of the desert region. The veil of tiny dots covering his canvas is reminiscent of the technique used in desert painting for disguising secret knowledge and could suggest the deliberate screening of Aboriginal history from the Australian people.
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