benjaminthomasjenner@gmail.com
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Studio Address: Studio 35, Matchmakers Wharf, Homerton High St, London.
EDUCATION
2019 – NOW: PhD research at the University of Leeds, within the School of Fine Art, History of Art and Cultural Studies. Research Title: EMBODIED BLINDFOLDED NAVIGATION AS PERCEPTUAL ECOLOGY: THE RE-MARKABLE SPACE OF POETIC FORM
2007-2009 MFA painting at The Slade School of Fine Art, London.
2001-2004 BA Fine Art Painting at Wimbledon School of Art, London.
UPCOMING:
December 2023: Solo Exhibition at University of Leeds, School of Fine Art, History of Art & Cultural Studies. In support of completion of PhD by practice.
More information coming soon.
CURRENT TEACHING POSTS
2019 and ongoing: Visiting Lecturer at the University of Leeds, undergraduate level (years 1,2, and 3).
CONFERENCE PAPERS , PRESENTATIONS, and INTERVIEWS.
- EARN (European Artist Research Network) Helsinki. ANOTHER WALK IN AFTERNOON SUNSHINE. November 2022.
- A WALK IN AFTER NOON SUN SHINE. A performative presentation, presented at Psychosocial Cartographies conference, Anglo American University, Prague, Czech Republic, 17-18 June 2022.
- DROP ON BUCKEYE TREE. A performative presentation, presented at the Center for Practice Research in the Arts (CPRA), University of Central Lancashire, Preston, UK, 28-29 April 2022.
- RETAINING THE OBJECT IN THE ABSENCE OF VISION: TRANSLATION AND RE-PRESENTATION IN THE WRITING OF ROBERT SMITHSON AND KENNETH GOLDSMITH. Presented as part of the session: Re-writing the Canon: New directions in art writing, Association for Art History 2021 Annual Conference, 14th-17th April 2021, on-line event.
- GENERATIVE CONSTRAINT AND THE SITE OF LANGUAGE. Presented as part of the session Ecologies, Topologies, Exploration, Vibrant Practices Symposium, Garden of Forking Paths, School of Music, University of Leeds, 16th-17th April 2021, on-line event.
- FORM AND LANGUAGE GENERATION IN THE ABSENCE OF VISION: A PROJECT AT THE ROYAL NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR BLIND PEOPLE (RNIB). Presented as part of the Postgraduate Presentation Series, University of Leeds, 02nd February 2021, on-line event.
- In Conversation: Benjamin Jenner with Simon Lewandowski, writer and director of The Mind Is Flat: a performance for two voices and one actor. 20th January 2021, on-line event.
- GENERATIVE CONSTRAINT AND THE SITE OF LANGUAGE: RETAINING THE OBJECT IN THE ABSENCE OF VISION: AN EXPLORATION OF ROBERT SMITHSON’S ‘INCIDENTS OF MIRROR-TRAVEL IN THE YUCATAN’, THROUGH TWO BLINDFOLDED EXPLORATIONS OF THE SAME PART OF THE SAME FOREST, POSSIBLY… Presented for my Transfer Symposium at the University of Leeds, Autumn 2020, on-line event.
- GENERATIVE CONSTRAINT AND THE SITE OF LANGUAGE: RETAINING THE OBJECT IN THE ABSENCE OF VISION: A DIALOGUE BETWEEN GEORGE PEREC’S ‘LIFE A USER’S MANUAL’, AND A BLINDFOLDED EXPLORATION OF A FOREST. Presented for the Practice-Led Symposium at the University of Leeds, Summer 2020, on-line event.
MEMBERSHIPS:
LOCAL SENSES: Workshop Leader. The Local Senses collective was formed in 2017 from a series of self-initiated creative workshops. Since then the group has acquired new members, meeting regularly to nurture a sense of community through peer-learning, shared experience and collective discovery. In 2019, the group began collaboratively developing strategies for exploring and navigating outdoor space around the Royal National Institute for Blind People. Local Senses Collective are Benjamin Jenner, Colin Palgrave, Geoff Clark, Leonie Abrahamson, Lesley Palgrave, Lizzie Nichols, Nathan Bather, Natanya Mark, and Rikki Jodelko.
READING AND WRITING BODIES IN SPACE: Co-founded with artist researcher Louise Adkins in 2022.
Member of The Society of Artistic Research (SAR). Contributor to the Special Interest Group: Language-Based Artistic Research.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2014 May-July: FROM NO FIXED POINT, Foundry Gallery, London
2005 Dimensions Variable, The Metre Square Gallery, London
PUBLICATIONS
2017. URBAN GHOSTS edition of GARAGELAND magazine. Contribution: Two drawings and a short piece of fictional prose entitled Luxurious Night. Published by Transition Gallery, London.
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2022 June: M2 ARTISTS: RECENT WORK 2
2018 May: M2 (at) 15, APT, London
2016 October: Acme Open Studios, Matchmakers Wharf, London
2016 July-September: Ingredients, Method, Serving Suggestion, APT, London
2016 July-December: John Moores 2016, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
2014 July: Tanlines, Group Show, curated by Sarah Brown, hosted by Drawing Room, London.
2013 June-August: Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London
2013 May: Creekside Open 2013 selected by Paul Noble, APT, London
2013 April-May: Drawing Biennial 2013, Drawing Room, London
2013 April: Signs of the City at UBM HQ in collaboration with Drawing Room, London
2011 September: Translate/Transcribe, Central House of Artists, Moscow
2011 January: The Invention of Painting, The Centre for Recent Drawing, London
2009 November: Moot:four days long, The Centre for Recent Drawing, London
2009 Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2009 at Cornerhouse, Manchester and A Foundation, London
2009 March: Red Mansion Art Prize at the Slade School of Fine Art.
2009 British Land Public Sculpture Competition, British Land Offices, London
2009 Contested Ground, 176/Zabludowicz Collection, London
2008 Abandoned by a Third Dimension, The Centre for Recent Drawing, London
2008 Kunstvlaai, A.P.I., Amsterdam
2008 Systems and Patterns 2, Whitechapel Project Space (Whitechapel Gallery), London, and Westbourne Studios, London
AWARDS AND RESIDENCIES
2019: Arts, Humanities, and Cultures Doctoral Scholarship, to enable PhD research at the University of Leeds within the School of Fine Art, History of Art and Cultural Studies.
2007-2009 AHRC grant for MFA study at The Slade School of Art
2008 The Red Mansion Art Prize UK/Beijing
2003 Association of Independent Art Schools Print Workshop, Germany
TEACHING AND OTHER RELEVANT EXPERIENCE
2018: Sessional Academic Lecturer at University for the Creative Arts (Canterbury) on the Foundation (Fine Art) pathway.
2016 September: Workshop at ATP gallery, London.
2014 February: Visiting artist at University of Kent.
2011 September: Visiting artist at Moscow School of Art.
2009-2011 October: Visiting artist at Bath School of Art.
2009 January: Visiting artist at Central Saint Martins, London.