Ben Bannan
Ben Bannan
Ben Bannan is an artist and educator living on Wurundjeri Country. Born in Boorloo/Perth, Ben holds a Bachelor of Fine Art from Curtin University and was a visiting scholar at École Nationale Supérieur d’Art in Dijon, France, later obtaining a Master of Fine Art from Monash University. His research is primarily concerned with aesthetics, visual culture, queer theory and psychoanalysis.
Ben’s practice explores the tensions between gendered bodies and the architectural environments that reproduce and reinforce norms and prejudices, assumptions, and aggressions: converging notions of shame and anonymity, surveillance and the monument, spatial environments appear in his work as ways of classifying bodies and their access to public space. He has exhibited nationally and internationally, including the Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts, Perth; Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery, The University of Western Australia; West Space, Melbourne; Animal House Fine Arts, Melbourne; Grafton Regional Gallery, Grafton; and the Art Encounters Biennial, Timișoara, Romania.