Bobby Benjamin

Tees-based artist Bobby Benjamin creates work in sculpture, installation and painting inspired by his direct experience of poverty and working-class life, questioning the role of the underprivileged within the arts.

Through his playful use of found objects and recurring salient thematic motifs, Benjamin balances tension and fragility with strength and solidity to create work that evokes both nostalgia and unease in the viewer. His multidisciplinary practice challenges traditional composition and concerns of cultural hegemony and industry voyeurism. 

Alongside his visual practice, Benjamin serves as director/curator of Middlesbrough art space, Pineapple Black and as a Special Lecturer with Teesside University. His work is held in the Middlesbrough Collection at MIMA.

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