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I’m an artist practicing in Naarm (Melbourne). My improvisational practice works cyclically between sound, sculptural-spatial, and writing processes. The works that I make focus on intersections between embodied listening and forming practices, including an interest in queer practices, forces of habit, and affect. My research is broad in this configuration of interests: spanning investigations of cultural relationships between instrument building and sculpture (thinking about sculpture through instrument building), ecologies of place and connection, and also ecologies of practice as habit forming and transforming. My recent text book Unimposing Form is avaliable to buy from publisher True Belief.
I hold a BFA Honours (2007-10) and MFA (2012) from the Victorian College of the Arts; and a PhD from Monash University, Fine Art (2018-22). I am a Lecturer at Monash University Fine Art, and also currently co-direct Run Artist Run (with Yongping Ren), a studio residency space in Docklands.
I also participate in Tributaries collective and the collaborative project Lèlè.
Recent solo projects include: Wet lines at Alta Forma; Unimposing form, an essay book published by True Belief/RAR; Benthic Community Flutes Sketch 2 (Snapping and Sandy Ghost Shrimp, Swamp Scrub, Mussel) premiered at Grafton Regional Gallery; Little and Many Intensities and Beeswax Flutes 2 for Liquid Architecture; Leaves (Hope for Resonance) at Youkobo Art Space; Engaging the Interval at MADA Gallery; that which enables and constrains… at West Space which included the publication of the (action) score book titled Sweet Potato; widen, subtract, warm, cool… at Incinerator Art Gallery; Processual Rhythms at The Substation; Enfolding Outward at Outward Projects; Benthic Community Flutes Sketch 1 (Sandy Ghost Shrimp) at Study Space, and as a finalist piece in the Darebin Art Prize; and, Uvulah as part of Queer Contexts Conference, RMIT.
I hold a BFA Honours (2007-10) and MFA (2012) from the Victorian College of the Arts; and a PhD from Monash University, Fine Art (2018-22). I am a Lecturer at Monash University Fine Art, and also currently co-direct Run Artist Run (with Yongping Ren), a studio residency space in Docklands.
I also participate in Tributaries collective and the collaborative project Lèlè.
Recent solo projects include: Wet lines at Alta Forma; Unimposing form, an essay book published by True Belief/RAR; Benthic Community Flutes Sketch 2 (Snapping and Sandy Ghost Shrimp, Swamp Scrub, Mussel) premiered at Grafton Regional Gallery; Little and Many Intensities and Beeswax Flutes 2 for Liquid Architecture; Leaves (Hope for Resonance) at Youkobo Art Space; Engaging the Interval at MADA Gallery; that which enables and constrains… at West Space which included the publication of the (action) score book titled Sweet Potato; widen, subtract, warm, cool… at Incinerator Art Gallery; Processual Rhythms at The Substation; Enfolding Outward at Outward Projects; Benthic Community Flutes Sketch 1 (Sandy Ghost Shrimp) at Study Space, and as a finalist piece in the Darebin Art Prize; and, Uvulah as part of Queer Contexts Conference, RMIT.
Image: Benjamin Woods, Shades, action sculpture, plywood and house paint, Melbourne Art Fair (with c3 and Sarah crowEST), 2014.
Image: Benjamin Woods, Beeswax Flutes, 2017.