Meet Pete Bennett at Grow

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As part of the ongoing Grow At Home programme of online talks with local artists, Grow welcomes artist and musician Pete Bennett for a talk and interactive Q&A afterwards.

Bennett’s paintings and drawings are known for being ‘simple gifts that can be at turns beautiful, ugly and indifferent.’ But Bennett has more than one talent.

Stevie Chick from The Quietus remembers Bennett’s time as a musician: ‘Since the 1990s, Pete has fronted Monkey Island, the London-based garage-rockers whose fractured riffage and venomous lyricism may not have won them much in the way of material reward, but who remain one of the greatest groups I have ever seen.’

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