BEN EDMUNDS

BEN EDMUNDS
AE-5.04, 2021
Gloss paint and vinyl decals on wood with shock cords and carabiners

40 x 30 cm

Installation views of  “Closer to the wind”. Solo exhibition at L21 Factory, Barcelona. 2022

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Close to the wind, 2021

Fabric dye and acrylic on canvas with shock cord and carbon fibre stretcher

180 x 140 cm

Installation views of  “Closer to the wind”. Solo exhibition at L21 Factory, Barcelona. 2022

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Looking back (the gap between), 2021
Fabric dye and acrylic on canvas with wood and carbon fibre frame webbing, buckles and etched bolts

200 x 160 cm

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All that stars can say, 2021
Fabric dye and acrylic on canvas with carbon fibre stretcher, eyelets and shock cord

200 x 160 cm

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Dream catcher, 2021
Fabric dye and acrylic on canvas with webbing and buckles

40 x 30 cm

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Dream catcher (detail), 2021
Fabric dye and acrylic on canvas with webbing and buckles

40 x 30 cm

FROM HEAD TO TOE

Group show with Math Bass, Marlena Kudlicka, Ben Edmunds, Vera Mota, Rasmus Nilausen, Gabriele Beveridge. L21 Gallery, Palma de Mallorca (ES)

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First moments (final movements), 2021
Fabric dye and acrylic on canvas with wood and carbon fibre frame, webbing and buckles

220 x 200 cm

BEN EDMUNDS
First moments (final movements) (detail), 2021
Fabric dye and acrylic on canvas with wood and carbon fibre frame, webbing and buckles

220 x 200 cm

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Some things are for something, 2021
Fabric dye and acrylic on canvas with wood frame, perspex, shock cords and carabiners

40 x 30 cm

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Were we ever lost // Were we ever found, 2020

Fabric dye and acrylic on canvas with carbon fibre frames, shock cords and carabiners

420 x 400 cm

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Where it will take us, 2021
Fabric dye and acrylic on canvas with wood frame, perspex, shock cords and carabiners

40 x 30 cm

 

EXHIBITIONS
CLOSER TO THE WIND
Ben Edmunds
21 January - 09 March, 2022
ARCO 2022
Fabio Viscogliosi, Felix Treadwell, Gao Hang, Hunter Potter, Richard Woods, Cristina de Miguel, Joe Cheetham, Edu Carrillo, Mona Broschár, Mira Makai, Jaime Hayon, Fátima de Juan, Erika Hock, Jordi Ribes, Nat Meade, Théo Viardin, Simon Demeuter, Daisy Dodd-Noble, Stevie Dix, Dasha Shishkin, Ian Waelder, Valerie Krause, Alejandro Leonhardt, Ben Edmunds
23 - 27 February, 2022
Untitled Art
Hunter Potter, Cristina de Miguel, Felix Treadwell, Jordi Ribes, Olivia Bax, Mira Makai, Nat Meade, Matthew Feyld, Stevie Dix, Ian Waelder, Dasha Shishkin, Edu Carrillo, Ben Edmunds, Fabio Viscogliosi, Richard Woods, Fátima de Juan
29 November - 04 December, 2021
FROM HEAD TO TOE
Math Bass, Marlena Kudlicka, Ben Edmunds, Vera Mota, Rasmus Nilausen, Gabriele Beveridge
22 July - 24 September, 2021
ARCOmadrid 2021
Ben Edmunds, Jordi Ribes, Szabolcs Bozó, Felix Treadwell, Théo Viardin, Nat Meade, Edu Carrillo, Simon Demeuter, Joe Cheetham, Fabio Viscogliosi, Ian Waelder, Richard Woods, Alejandro Leonhardt, Stevie Dix, Valerie Krause, Erika Hock, Dasha Shishkin, Mona Broschár, Jorge Galindo, Endre Tót, Jaime Hayón, Kevin McNamee-Tweed, Joshua Abelow, Gao Hang, Olivia Bax, Vera Mota, Pixy Liao, Mira Makai, Gabriele de Santis, Sepand Danesh, Richie Culver, Josh Reames, Charline Tyberghein, Mathew Feyld, Cristina de Miguel, Olivier Renevret, Geran Knol, Marc Badia, Michael Swaney, Jon Burgerman, Fátima de Juan, Rachel Hobkirk, Kes Richardson, Andrés Lozano, Hunter Potter, CB Hoyo, Imon Boy, Bianca Fields
07 - 11 July, 2021
BIO

Ben Edmunds (b.1994, Norwich, UK) lives and works in London. As an artist, his practice spans painting and sculpture, and he is the director of Aspirational Equipment Ltd., an artist’s objects company founded in 2019. He received a BA in Painting from Wimbledon College of Arts (2016), and an MA in Painting from Royal College of Art (2018) where he was awarded the Hine Prize for Painting.

 

His practice is deeply rooted in his background as a sailor and windsurfer, and his work focuses on the crossover between these adventure sports, luxury lifestyle pursuits and colour field painting. He is interested in the possibilities of abstraction as a transcendental experience, likening it to climbing a mountain or sailing in open water. He questions the assumed anti-utilitarianism of painting, proposing the artwork as a form of equipment.

 

He has participated in numerous group and solo exhibitions, including “Almost Somewhere”, Choi & Lager Gallery (Seoul, 2021); “It won’t last forever (or maybe it will)” at Tatjana Pieters Gallery (Gent, 2021); “Where should I go from here?”, Kaikai Kiki Gallery (Tokyo, 2019); and “Something unknown is doing we don’t know what”, County Street (London, 2020).

CV

EDUCATION

2016 – 2018 Royal College of Art, MA Painting

2013 – 2016 Wimbledon College of Art, BA Painting

 

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2022

(Upcoming) Solo with Tatjana Pieters (BE) 

Happiness, solo, The Shophouse, Hong Kong (HK)

Closer to the wind, L21 Factory, Barcelona (ES)

2021

Universal Tomorrow, Manchester (UK)

Almost Somewhere, Choi&Lager Gallery, Seoul (KR)

It won’t last forever (or maybe it will), Tatjana Pieters Gallery, Gent (BE)

2020

Happiness TM, The Shophouse, Hong Kong (HK)

2019

Where should I go from here?, Kaikai Kiki Gallery, Tokyo (JP)

2017

Lost Horizons, Noble Studios, London (UK)

Kick Off, Carousel, London (UK)

 

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2022

Portraits and monochromes. ARTUAL, Beirut (LBN)

2021

From Head To Toe. L21 Gallery, Palma de Mallorca (ES)

Not Painting. Copperfield, London (UK)

2020

Something unknown is doing we don’t know what, County Street, London (UK)

2019

Adieu to Old England, the Kids are Alright, Choi&Lager Gallery, Cologne (DE)

Summer Exhibition, Kaikai Kiki Gallery, Tokyo (JP)

Le Main Qui Dessinait Toute Seule, Danysz Gallery, Shanghai (CN)

There’s Something About Painting, Tatjana Pieters Gallery, Gent (BE)

Deeply, Galleria Patricia Armocida, Milan (IT)

FBA Futures, Mall Galleries, London (UK)

2018

Les Mains dans les Poches, Pierre Poulet, Bordeaux (FR)

 

AWARDS

2018 Hine Painting Prize
2018 Red Mansion Art Prize (shortlisted)
2016 Aidan Threlfall Scholarship
2015 Prunella Clough Scholarship (shortlisted)