Artist Statement
Ben is interested in a crisis of male identity. A critique that often starts with his own arrested development and which is therefore often sited within the family unit.
Ben lived with his maternal grandmother, Blue Granny, for a year during his time at Goldsmiths and for the two years of study at the RCA.
A desire to understand how things work is channelled into constructions of its antithesis, magic. A smoke and mirrors approach to moving image art.
Ben is currently developing a new project 'Space Artist'.
CV & Education
Qualifications and training
2006 - MA, Photography, RCA
1999 - BA (Hons), Fine Art, Goldsmiths College
Group exhibitions
2009 - (....), Galleria Omphalos, Terlizzi, Bari, Italy
2008 - Ben Young, Wolverhampton Art Gallery, Wolverhampton
2007 - AirVideo3, AirSpace gallery, Stoke on Trent
2007 - Ben Young and Ruth Ewan, Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art, Sunderland
2007 - Media Attention, G39, Cardiff
2006 - No Man is an Island, Hackney Empire, London
2006 - PLUG, White Space, County Hall Gallery, London
2005 - Gone in 60 seconds, Gallery by the Lake, Southwark Park, London
2005 - La Lenteur (Slowness), RCA, London
1999 - Group Show, Samtidskunstforum, Oslo, Norway
