Benjamin Brown

Lives and works in London, UK

Artist statement

I am an Artist, Writer, Performer and Curator born in Essex and currently surviving with my family in London. My wife and I are care for our son who has the rare metabolic condition VLCADD. I work across sculpture, sound, written and spoken text with frequent deviations into other media. I have a rhizomatic and iterative approach to making, allowing for expansion and refinement through cycles of creation and return; accepting and galvanised by the existence of a piece in a given moment, rather than an everlasting artifact. I often work with a combination of preexisting materials and the hand crafted - manufactured and found, industrial and organic - utilising absurdity and strangeness to tease out narratives and spark points of tension: to quote a painting by Ed Rusha, I’m looking for the ‘Sand in the Vaseline’. Most recently I have been interested in the intersection of sculpture, sound and performance, and how both can create opportunities for collaboration, community creation and engagement. I am the founder of NOSE BLIND AND HUMMING, which is a supportive platform and testing ground for performative and text-based art practices: it is: ‘a space for words to be practiced and performed, a place to try (and if necessary, fail).’ I run a monthly experimental radio show A LEG AND A CHIN on RTM.fm.

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