About
Ben has presented numerous solo exhibitions at venues including Alaska Projects, Sutton Projects, TARS Bangkok, THIS IS NO FANTASY, Oigall Projects, and Scott Lawrie Gallery. In 2018, he collaborated with Jon Cattapan on an exhibition at the La Trobe Art Institute, curated by Dr Kent Wilson. His participation in 1991 at Neon Parc, alongside Nabilah Nordin and Dale Frank, as well as exhibiting with Félix González-Torres and Patricia Piccinini at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, are among his many notable group show achievements.
Ben has been a finalist in nearly two dozen art prizes. Highlights include being highly commended in the Lester Prize for Portraiture in 2014, and reaching the second round of the Brett Whiteley Travelling Art Scholarship in 2015. In 2018, he won the Tony Fini Foundation Prize at the Art Gallery of Western Australia, and in 2019 received a Highly Commended award for the Hawkesbury Art Prize. He was a finalist in the prestigious Archibald Prize in 2016, 2018, 2019, 2020, and 2021, and in 2020 was also a finalist for the Sir John Sulman Prize at the Art Gallery of New South Wales.
He has undertaken artist residencies and lectured at both Rajamangala University of Technology and Poh Chang Academy of Art in Thailand. In 2019, he was artist-in-residence at the Haengchon Arts & Cultural Centre in Korea, with his work exhibited at the Haengchon Art Museum and Sooyun Artspace.
His work is held in numerous private and public collections worldwide, including the Michael and Janet Buxton Family Collection, Lismore Regional Gallery, and Cato Counsel, among others.
In addition to his artistic practice, Ben is the director of Nicholas Projects, an independent artist-run initiative that champions experimental and emerging contemporary art. Through this platform, he has curated exhibitions featuring artists such as Sam Leach, Jonny Niesche, Fiona Lowry, Gareth Sansom, Hayley Millar Baker, and Jelena Telecki, among others. Ben is also a regular writer and contributor to About Time, Australia’s first national prison newspaper, and is currently undertaking full-time study in the social sciences, majoring in criminology.
Ben is represented by Scott Lawrie Gallery, United Kingdom.