Benedict lives in London and was educated at Newcastle University in Fine Art, Westminster University MA Media Arts, Turps Banana painting school and has been artist in residence at the Place and Royal Festival Hall, Southbank Centre, amongst others.

Benedict’s practice reflects on a common desire for fixity, the concrete and its inevitable unavailability. His paintings play with patterns of thought and perception that fall in and out of symbols, stories and meaning. 

The layers of staining, corrosion and deletions in the painting contrast with abrupt, machined cliff edges in tone; hard boundaries referencing camouflage, industrial colour and process. Perceptual boundaries are fuzzed and bounced, objects play in the dark or hide in plain sight creating areas of disagreement. 

Benedict is interested in forms losing their integrity and becoming many or none; as a window to the possible collapse of dualistic thought. By pushing images towards destruction and then resuscitating them he asks: What animates? Where does something start and end? Where does one become other? What is imminent? What happens past the edge and when do we getthere?  

Do feel free to drop me a line and say hi or join the mailing list, thanks, Benedict