Benjamin Arthur Brown works across sculpture, writing and sound, with frequent deviations into other media, investigating what he calls the ‘suspended realism’ of our current state: which is the experience of the contradictory feeling of things moving at great pace (i.e. technological development) yet also the feelings of either stagnating or moving backwards (socially, infrastructurally and/or politically). This gives life a certain, uncanny haze, from which many narratives can be drawn.
He is an Associate Curator at San Mei Gallery and Van Gogh House and is the creator of the performance platform ‘NOSE BLIND AND HUMMING’. Brown also broadcasts a monthly radio show on RTM.fm called 'A LEG AND A CHIN'
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Education:
Slade School of Fine Art (UCL) 2013-2017
Colchester Institute 2012-2013
Prizes:
A-N (artist newsletter) Bursary 2019
Stanbury Scholarship, UCL, 2017
Commendation from Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, 2017
Stanbury Scholarship, UCL, 2014
Exhibitions
Potion Room, Subsidiary Projects, London 2020
Ten, Norman Rea Gallery (York University) 2019
AfterHours, San Mei Gallery, 2019
Creekside Open, Selected by Brian Griffiths, APT Gallery, 2019
Artificial Heavens and Day to Day Hells, Ware Maltings, 2018
NOW NOW (duo Show with Alex Lewis), Take Courage Gallery, London, 2018
HOW WIDE IT WAS HOW DEEP IT WAS HOW MUCH OF IT WAS MINE TO KEEP (Curated), San Mei Gallery, 2018
EVERYTHING WAS BEAUTIFUL AND NOTHING HURT (Curated), San Mei Gallery, 2018
Public Relations, Old Street, 2017
Creekside Open, Selected by Jordan Baseman, APT Gallery, 2017
‘Cache Sex Karaoke’ (performer) by Simon Vincenzi, The Barbican , 2016
MISBEHAVE, Tottenham, 2016
NO SPACER, The MART gallery, Dublin , 2016
and how do you feel about that?, New School House Gallery, York, 2015
SPARKS, Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, 2015
HAVE A NO: Spread the Spoken Word (organised), X marks the Bökship, London, 2015
you’ve got my bone, O YES, Soho, 2015
Doleful Shades, Crypt Gallery, Euston, 2015
Ben’s Show(Curated), Camden, 2014