Ben Winter United Kingdom

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I’m a UK artist based in Leeds and I’ve taken part in open call exhibitions across the UK (Art of music, King street gallery, Lancaster winner of special selection). Recently I had a solo exhibition at the ORBS walls, Leeds. My work is predominantly oil painting on canvas and wooden board.

I’m a UK artist based in Leeds and I’ve taken part in open call exhibitions across the UK (Art of music, King street gallery, Lancaster winner of special selection). Recently I had a solo exhibition at the ORBS walls, Leeds.

Using found images, photographs and memory I’m interested in themes of ritual activity, displacement and otherness.

I take images from old books usually relating to customs from different parts of the world and scenes I find engaging and use them in the process of developing my own scenes.

Mystery and mythology are key to the conceptualisation of my work, the storytelling and communality that is present in group activity contrasted with individualism and self motivated productivity is something I’m currently exploring in my practice.