Benjamin Bannan

Bannan (b.1997, Boorloo/Perth, Australia) is an artist living and working on unceded Wurundjeri lands in Naarm/Melbourne. In 2018 Bannan participated in an artist residency at École Nationale Supérieure d’Art, Dijon, facilitated by Curtin University. He participated in the 2019 Festival Lab facilitated by Perth Festival and was a recipient of the Lowensteins Arts Management Award in 2020.

Recent solo exhibitions include Demarcations, Cool Change Contemporary, and Untitled (Saint Francis of Assisi Receiving the Stigmata), West Space. Group exhibitions include Landscape in a Convex Mirror, Art Encounters Biennial; Here&Now20: Perfectly Queer, Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery; ARCUS, Martin Browne Contemporary; Continuity and Change, Mundaring Arts Centre; HATCHED: National Graduate Exhibition, Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts.

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Perennial blue

Perennial blue conceptualises the ways in which repetition, abstraction, and figure/ground relationships might function within artworks as strategies or affinities used by queer artists across time.

To do so, this project draws on the myth of Narcissus, the work of Leo Bersani and Derek Jarman, and the notion of queer abstraction through the expanded medium of print. Materials such as carbon paper, Pre-exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP), and the conventional postcard are handled as spatial and temporal practices.