Ben Skea is a visual artist based in the UK.
His art practice focuses on the intersection between the human condition and the digital – transforming time, frame and form with experimental animation, digital printmaking, painting, moving image, sound and sculpture.
Recent projects have reflected on contemporary anxieties of the body in flux, the fragmented self and the fluidity of realities. Ben primarily works with the computer to investigate the tension between memory, matter and materials of reproduction.
Selected exhibitions, screenings and publications include: 8DAY – Exit CODE – 8 Mediations Biennale Polska, Galeria Sztuki BWA, Olsztyn, Poland (2023); Phantom Blinks (part of QLQL2), Muswell Press, UK (2023); The Portrait Peels (Off) / Gen V, Shadow Grew a Body (sound project 2020-21); Then, What If?, TDP Gallery, Torrington, USA (2019); PostSynthetic Interactions Through Digital Aesthetics, Taipei Expo Park, Taiwan (2019); Scottish Animation: Abstraction & Experimentation, Filmhouse, Edinburgh; CCA, Glasgow; Eden Court, Inverness, UK (2019); Second Nature, Glasgow International, UK (2018); 25th Chicago Underground Film Festival, Chicago, USA (2018); Lights Out Listening Group, Old Hairdressers, Glasgow, UK (2018); The 8th Day | Human Created Machine, Temple Athens, Gazi, Greece (2018); The Wrong Water Pavilion, The Wrong – New Digital Art Biennale (2017-18); Radiophrenia, CCA, Glasgow, UK (2017); Experimental Art Interludes, Supernova, 14th Champa LED Screen, Denver, USA (2017); Technonatural, Gossamer Fog, London, UK (2016); OUTPOST Open Film 2016 Selected by Ed Atkins, a.m. London, UK (2016); Encounters 22nd Short Film & Animation Festival, Bristol, UK (2016); Confined Spaces, Old Gaol & Police Station, Campbeltown, UK (2016); Bounds. Ends. Limits. (solo show), The Telfer Gallery, Glasgow, UK (2015); Re-adjuster, (solo show), Inverness Museum & Art Gallery, UK (2015); In the Spacing (solo show), Iona Gallery, Kingussie, UK (2015); Visions, The Picture Show, Brooklyn, New York, USA (2014); The Art of Drawn Movements, GFT, Glasgow, UK (2014); Exploring Boundaries, Neo:Gallery22, Bolton, UK (2014); BYOB Glasgow #2, The Whisky Bond, Glasgow, UK (2013); Interval As Integration, EAF Film Club, Edinburgh Art Festival, UK (2013); Artists Film, Generator Projects, Dundee, UK (2013); VAEFF, Tribeca Cinemas, New York (2013); Mack, Picozzi, Skea, Streetlevel Photoworks, Glasgow, UK (2010); Ebb/Flow (solo show), Practice Gallery, Glasgow, UK (1996); Submerge (solo show) Intermedia 2, New Visions, Glasgow, UK (1994); Virtual Rotation, CCA, New Visions, Glasgow, UK (1994).
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