“Ben’s work deals intelligently with the profusion of images that we are bombarded with, from facebook memes to youtube videos, from surrealist paintings to old masters.

He is utterly immersed in the variety of visual media that artists are subject to, and treat as their subjects.

The fact that he makes videos, performances, and photoshopped images (the kind that might go viral) and paints using traditional techniques, speaks to the great fuelling of the physical by the digital.

In Ben’s art the boundaries dissolve to create exciting new hybrids. His work is funny, sometimes profane, raw, and relevant.

There is a touch of Ryan Trecartin’s hyperactivity with some of the humour of an artist like Kippenberger, as well as an abiding desire to explore the possibilities of paint.”

Jasper Joffe

CV

Born 1984 Brooms Head, Australia

Lives and works in London, UK

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

Solo shows

2016

'HyperUpcycling'

Hundred Years Gallery, Hoxton

2011

'Ocular Yarn' HF Contemporary Art, Berlin

(exhibiting as 'Ronnie Flotsam')

Selected Group Shows / Residencies /Awards / Workshops

2017

Process Space Art Festival / Residency Artist & Workshop Practitioner Elias Canetti House, Rousse Bulgaria June 2 - 15

Workshop ‘Digital Art Process & Experimentation with Photoshop and After Effects’ Elias Canetti House, Rousse Bulgaria June 2 - 15

'Motions' Group Show, Elias Canetti House, Rousse Bulgaria June 15 - July 15

'Clearance' Group Show, Hundred Years Gallery, London

2016

Winner of 'Blind Plural'

Winner of 'Blind Plural' - International open art call with group show at Hundred Years Gallery, London and solo show award.

'Metaphor Hunt'

Participatory performance event & digital workshop

Hundred Years Gallery, London

'Fact & Fiction'

Hundred Years Gallery, London

'Where Are We Now'

Penthaus Studio, London

'One Billion Rising'

Group exhibition, OBR Festival, London

Bow Arts Open Studios

Bow Arts Rum Factory, September event, London

Bow Arts Open Studios

Bow Arts Rum Factory,  May event, London

2014

'Bis ans Ende der Welt auf Fluegeln der Kunst'

Castle Gabelhofen Gallery,  Fohnsdorf, Austria

(exhibiting as 'Ronnie Flotsam')

ART MONACO 2014, Grimaldi, Monaco

HF Contemporary Art

(exhibiting as 'Ronnie Flotsam')

2013

'Orchestrated Harmony' The Truman Brewery, London

HF Contemporary Art

(exhibiting as 'Ronnie Flotsam')

'Art For Eccentrics' Eccentric Club Mayfair / The Savile Club,

London, HF Contemporary Art

(exhibiting as 'Ronnie Flotsam')

DISCOGRAPHY

2013

PINCERS, 'MOLT' EP

Amongst other press 'PINCERS'  featured in The Guardian, Artrocker, Supajam, VICE, The Vinyl District, ContactMusic, FAME, PlanetNotion and was playlisted on Resonance FM, BBC and Urban Outfitters radio.