Tony Benn
Tony Benn
Since the mid-Eighties Tony Benn has been a practicing artist exploring the inter-relations between a critical theoretical understanding of art and art history with an art practice that has been concomitant with these concerns. He has exhibited regularly almost every year since 1982. Recently Benn has studied for a practice-based PhD at the University of Brighton: 'Somatic Aesthetics and Aleatory Painting Practices'.
Benn is primarily a painter and his practice is studio based but he sees no division between theory and practice, except to say, that the primacy of practice does not push aside theory but is revitalised by it.
He has taught regularly in art schools in the UK since 1992, including Glasgow School of Art BA and Goldsmiths College MA. Contextual Studies Lecturer at Cambridge school of Art MFA
Everyday 2011
The Everyday exhibition, Ruskin Gallery, Cambridge School of art, 2011. Curated by Tony Benn. Including artists; Amikam Toren, Christopher Stevens, Jo Stockham, John Wilkins, Luke Jackson, Paul Butler, Sam Jackson, Suzy Treister, Tony Benn
Desertflower 2011
Desertflower 2011
120cmx120cm
Acrylic, mdf.
When the rubbish blows off the dumps at the edge of ths city. Plastic bags get caught in the branches of the trees out in the desert. Local people call them desert flowers.
Desertflower drawing 2011
Desertflower drawing acrlic on paper 150x150cm
desertflower 2011
acrylic,gesso,mdf
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Other related researchers:
- Alice Fox
- Jane Fox
- Timo Lehtonen
- Sue Gollifer
- Christopher Stevens