Introduction

Ben Washington’s sculptures draw attention to their own physicality, often holding themselves upright through precarious acts of balance, appearing at times to defy physical laws, highlighting those laws and as a result intensifying the viewers’ relationship to the object and the space that they both occupy.

Washington’s work explores the intersection between space as it exists, as it is imagined and as it is experienced. It pulls together narratives of representation, drawing from sources as diverse as historical landscape art, to modes of architecture, to the constructed world of computer games and virtual reality. By clashing these narratives and visual languages together, he creates new connections between the objects and their implicit meanings, encouraging new questions to be asked and new readings to be sought.

Exhibitions

• Jan ’10 - The Private Citizen

Biography

Born: 1981, U.K .
BA 1st class (hons) fine art, Kingston University, 2001-2004

Selected Exhibitions

‘The Private Citizen’, GALERIE DANA CHARKASI, Vienna, 2010
‘Using a sprat to catch a mackerel’ The Old Police Station, Volume, London, Nov 2009
‘Coller elective’ Arena studio Gallery, Liverpool, May 2009
‘Tales from the new world’ Paballon Cuba, Havana, Mar 2009
‘Contested Ground’ 176/Zabladowicz Collection, London, Jan 2009
‘One Step Closer To Grandeur’ Tricycle Gallery, London, Dec 2008
‘I have never been to Japan’, Fordham University, New York, U.S.A, Nov 2008
‘Space Artists’, Istanbul art fair, Turkey, Nov 2008
‘Simply Paper’, Indus Valley University, Karachi, Pakistan, Aug 2008
‘Space Now’ The Triangle, London, June 2008
‘Artfutures’ Bloomburg space, London, January 2008 ‘Euro 5 Serie’ 6a Scawfell Street, London, March 2007 ‘The Garden Projects’ 13a Copleston Road Gallery, London, July 2006   ‘Start My Art’ The Nolia, London, July 2005 ‘Leisure Centre’ 291 Gallery, London, June 2004

Press and Publications

A-N Magazine, Review, coller-elective, May 2009
Refutation, Online magazine, http://www.refutation.co.uk, May 2009
Havana X, Tenth Havana Bienal Catalogue, Mar 2009
Herald, Newspaper, Nafisa Rizvi, Karachi, Pakistan, Oct 2008

Residencies

‘Coast’ Triangle Arts, International artist workshop, A foundation, Liverpool, August 2007
Shatana Artists Workshop, Shatana, Jordan, July 2008