Artist Statement
Benjamin Owens work explores performance, disconnection and reflection through the traversal and potential performance of objects and spaces.
Owens practice combines a broad evolving mix of still photography, moving image, performance, actions and improvised music. Within these hybrid pieces he investigates appropriation, production values and the subsequent impact of different mode's of display.
CV & Education
Group exhibitions
2012 - Chekhov's Gun, g39, Cardiff
2012 - Soundworks, ICA, London
2012 - This means something, this is important, The Parlour Rooms, Bristol
2011 - ¿AreWeNotDrawnOnwardToNewEra?, g39, Cardiff
2011 - Bathspa Fine Art Masters Exhibition, Sion Hill Bathspa University, Bath
2011 - Ongoingon - MFA Group show, Dartmouth Avenue, Bathspa University, Bath
Live/Performance
2012 - Looking across to space - The Collect, Chapter Arts, Cardiff
2012 - Rhythms of Time-Sharing presents, KIOSKcollective and The Collect, Bristol/London/Philadelphia
2011 - Experimentica 1.1, Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff
2011 - Uber Song for artist Yvonne Bucheim, Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff
2007 - Dawn Chorus by Marcus Coates, Picture this, Bristol
2007 - Last Dance by Anthony Shapland, Buffalo bar, Cardiff
2007 - Sick Serena and Dregs and Wreck and Wreck by Emily Wardill, Picture this, Bristol
