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Murrumbidgee police say a report will be prepared for the coroner as inquiries into the Broken Hill-based artist’s death continue. Benjamin’s Sydney dealer, Ralph Hobbs, said he had only spoken to the artist last week about his forthcoming exhibition. “He said was heading out bush to make some paintings and some poems that would be [part of] the exhibition,” Hobbs said. “You know, he was up and down, but he seemed really up and really excited about this body of work that he was doing. He was in great spirits.” Hobbs described Benjamin’s distinctive large-scale landscape works as romantic and highly allegorical. ....