Benjamin Edwin Slinger is a northern born visual artist based in London, their practise deals with social, economic and politically driven dystopian themes through material assemblage, drawing, painting and writing.
Abuse of power, masculinity and the semiotics of civil disobedience are examined using visual cues from design history and sci-fi/fantasy universes in order to examine the social relationship of class, violence and perceptions of class within popular culture.
The work examines the failings of parody as a critically rigorous vehicle by replicating it as a gesture alongside popular characters, political cartoons and depictions of state representatives. These symbols are broken down and reformed into pseudo states reflecting their histories and contemporary positions
Education
Leeds College of Art - Foundation, 2009
Goldsmiths University of London - BFA, 2013
School of The Damned - Alternative MA, 2015
Selected Exhibitions
Dungeon Inc., Darren Flook, London 2023
A Tall Order, Touchstones Rochdale, Rochdale, 2023
Souvenir, Bye Bye Gallery, London, 2022
Within Reach, Sid Motion Gallery, London, 2022
A Medieval Choreography, Galerie Karin Guenther, Hamburg, 2021
Strawberry Hill, The Orange Garden, London, 2020
The Proletariat Book Club : Name Drops Keep Fallin’ On My Head, Becky’s, London 2019
Docile Bodies, Vitrine Gallery, London, 2018
From The Island of Truffles to the Kingdom of Misunderstandings, HA HA Gallery, Southampton, 2017
A Vanitas Painting, SERF, Leeds, 2017
An Endless Futurist Dream ; Only in Daylight Do We See The Real Terror, LARA, London, 2017
Closest Thing to Wearing Nothing, M.I/mi1glisse, Berlin, 2016
Trace Programme, Aspirational Living, Nottingham, 2016
A British Art Show, Meyohas, New York, 2015
Other
Falling Tulips; The Icebox Chronicles, a part of Montez Press Radio London (Radio broadcast of audio work) 2019
A Nationalist’s Semiotics, a part of The Interjection Calendar, Montez Press (Publication) 2017
Press
Another magazine, ‘The Artist Exploring Northern Working-Class Cultural Identity’ 2021 read here
