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Artist Biography
BENJAMIN WOODS (b. 1988, Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung Country) is an artist who practises with training in sculpture and sound. He explores how embodied relationships with forming processes can generate attention to relational and ecological connection, registering transformative potential. Woods has been exhibiting and performing his sculptural and sonic installations for the last 15 years. He holds a BFA Hons and MFA from the Victorian College of the Arts; and, recently completed a PhD project in sculpture at Monash University (2022) focusing on how personal habits transform through attention to the relational qualities of practice.
Woods often works collaboratively and collectively, such as in Tributaries (with Geoff Robinson, Saskia Schut, Ying-Lan Dann), and in Lèlè (Yongping Ren and Ben Woods). Recent solo works include: Benthic Community Flutes Sketch 2 (Snapping and Sandy Ghost Shrimp, Swamp Scrub, Mussel) premiered at Grafton Regional Gallery; Little and Many Intensities for Liquid Architecture; Leaves (Hope for Resonance) at Youkobo Art Space; Forming Resonant Situations at MADA Gallery; that which enables and constrains… at West Space; widen, subtract, warm, cool… at Incinerator Art Gallery; Processual Rhythms at The Substation; Enfolding Outward at Outward Projects; and, Benthic Community Flutes Sketch 1 (Sandy Ghost Shrimp) at Study Space.
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