Amanda Bennetts: Carve Crevice from Grace

Next date: Saturday, 19 December 2026 | 12:00 AM to 11:59 PM

Carve Crevice from Grace is a short film by Sunshine Coast-based artist Amanda Bennetts that examines the capitalist ethos surrounding productivity, specifically for those who live with disability and chronic illness.

In the film, Bennetts, who lives with multiple sclerosis and a rare muscular disease, places herself within an constructed industrial worksite, echoing her former role in mining workforce planning. Tasked with breaking up and processing an imposing block of sandstone with seemingly no outcome, the film evokes a sense of absurdity and futility. 

Through this repetitive and physically demanding task, Bennetts exposes society’s demands of people deemed ‘unproductive’ and challenges the equivalence between ‘usefulness’ and value in contemporary life. Through this evocative work, Bennetts creates an allegory between the erosion of both bodies and landscapes through extractive practices.

Carve Crevice from Grace was the Major Prize Winner of Girra: Fraser Coast National Art Prize 2025 at Hervey Bay Regional Gallery, joining the region’s art collection.

11-minute film, displayed on loop.

Carve Crevice from Grace was originally commissioned by Accessible Arts and Sydney Opera House.

^{Image: Amanda Bennetts, Carve Crevice from Grace (video still), 2024, video, 00:11:00.}

 

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Hervey Bay Regional Gallery, 166 Old Maryborough Road, Pialba, 4655, View Map