Benjamin Jenner
benjaminthomasjenner@gmail.com
Summer 2026 – Arts Council funded research project …rewriting the self – reflection on the move…
Education
2019 – 2024 PhD (practice-led), School of Fine Art, History of Art, & Cultural Studies, University of Leeds.
Enabled by Arts, Humanities, & Cultures Faculty Scholarship, University of Leeds.
2021 – 2022 Associate Fellow of AdvanceHE.
2007 – 2009 MFA (Painting), Slade School of Fine Art, University College London.
Enabled by AHRC Research Grant.
2001 – 2004 BA (Hons) Fine Art (Painting), Wimbledon School of Art.
Academic Posts
2026 – now Course Leader, European Fine Art Masters, The Margate School of Art.
2024 – now Lecturer, History & Philosophy of Art and Making and Critiquing, European Fine Art Masters, The Margate School of Art.
2019 – 2024 Associate Lecturer on Fine Art BA Studio Program, University of Leeds.
2018 – 2019 Visiting Lecturer, UCA Canterbury, Foundation – Fine Art Pathway.
2014 Visiting Lecturer, University of Kent, BA Fine Art.
2011 Visiting Lecturer, Moscow School of Art, BA Fine Art.
2009 – 2011 Visiting Lecturer, Bath School of Art, Foundation – Fine Art Pathway.
2009 Visiting Lecturer, Central St Martins, BA Fine Art.
Publications
2026 Jenner B, ‘…rewriting the self – reflection on the move…’, Suspended in Language, Society of Artistic Research, RC (upcoming).
2026 Jenner B, ‘the main body of this text…’ and ‘Drawing as Slow Conversation’, Practice Sharing III, Language-Based Artistic Research Journal (pending).
2026 Jenner B, Bottle I ‘Walking Questions’, Listening Grounds, print publication, collab between TMS and esä Dunkirk.
2026 Jenner B, ‘the main body of this text…’, print pub. in collaboration with Dover Road Gallery, Folkstone, Kent.
2025 Jenner, B ‘Lin[e]guistic Diagrams: Scripting the Workshop from Beyond the Visual’, Drawing Across X Along X Between University Borders, University of Porto 978-989-9279-11-7
2025 Jenner B, Adkins L ‘Drawing as Slow Conversation’ TW’R01, Wild Pansy Press.
2025 Jenner B, Adkins L ‘Drawing as Slow Conversation’, The Writer’s Room.
2023 Jenner B, ‘Another Walk in Afternoon Sunshine’, Practice Sharing II, Language-Based Artistic Research Journal.
2023 Jenner B, ‘Another Walk in Afternoon Sunshine’, CePRA Journal, University of Leeds.
2022 Jenner B, ‘Retaining the Object in the Absence of Vision’, CePRA Journal, University of Leeds.
2017 Jenner B, ‘Luxurious Night’, Garageland Magazine, pub. Transition Gallery.
Conference Papers, Workshops, Interviews
2026 …rewriting the self – reflection on the move, Convocation III, Language-Based Artistic Research Group, University of Applied Arts, Vienna – workshop facilitator.
2026 …rewriting the self – reflection on the move, Suspended in Language, Gustav Mahler University, Klagenfurt, Austria – presenter.
2025 Walking Questions, Listening Grounds II, Margate and Broadstairs, Kent, UK – presenter.
2025 Between Margate and Walmer, performative presentation, Listening Grounds I, esä Dunkirk – presenter.
2024 Lin[e]guistic Diagrams: Scripting the Workshop from Beyond the Visual, Drawing Across X Along X Between University, Borders, University of Porto – workshop facilitator.
2024 Sensing the Presentation Through Dialogue: A Collective Wor[l]ding of Non-Visual Culture Midlands Conference of Critical Thought, Nottingham Trent University – presenter.
2023 Blindfolded Feedback, Practice-Led Symposium, University of Leeds – presenter.
2023 Walking Between Wor[l]ds With Lines, Language-Based Artistic Research Group, Zentrum Fokus Forschung, University of Applied Arts Vienna – workshop facilitator
2022 Another Walk in Afternoon Sunshine, EARN, Uni Arts, Helsinki – presenter.
2022 A Walk in After Noon Sun Shine, Psychosocial Cartographies, Prague – presenter.
2022 Drop on Buckeye Tree, Centre for Practice Research in the Arts, UCLAN, Preston – presenter.
2021 Translation and Re-presentation in the Writing of Robert Smithson and Kenneth Goldsmith, Association of Art History annual conference – presenter.
2021 Generative Constraint and the Site of Language, Vibrant Practices, University of Leeds – presenter.
2021 In Conversation with Simon Lewandowski, University of Leeds – interviewer.
Collaborative Practice
2024 – now Drawing as Slow Conversation, research project with Louise Adkins – co-founder.
2022 – 2024 Reading and Writing Bodies in Space – co-founder.
2023 – now Words as Matter, thematic node of Language-Based Artistic Research Group – member.
2018 – now Local Senses Collective (localsenses.co.uk) – co-founder.
Completed projects to date:
2023, Mapping in Woolwich, Commissioned by Royal Borough of Greenwich.
2021/22, Mapping in Lewisham, Commissioned by Liberty Festival 2022.
2019/20, Mapping in Bloomsbury, Funded by Mayor of London’s Culture Seeds Grant.
Volunteering
2024 – now Arts for Dementia, workshop assistant, Swiss Cottage Library, London.
2024 – now The Reader, community reading assistant, various locations.
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2014 FROM NO FIXED POINT, Foundry Gallery, London.
2005 Dimensions Variable, The Metre Square Gallery, London.
Selected Group Exhibitions
2026 Words Worth Watching: The Writers’ Room, University of Leeds.
2026 J’adore Pierre, The Margate School of Art, Margate, Kent.
2025 Words as Matter, Language-Based Artistic Research, SAR Conference 2025.
2024 Drawing as Slow Conversation, The Writers’ Room, London.
2024 Reading and Writing Bodies in Space, The Project Space, University of Leeds.
2022 M2 Artists: Recent Work 2, ASC project space, London.
2018 M2 (at) 15, APT, London.
2016 Ingredients, Method, Serving Suggestion, APT, London.
2016 John Moores 2016, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool.
2014 Tanlines, Drawing Room, London, 2014.
2013 Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London.
2013 Creekside Open 2013, selected by Paul Noble, APT, London.
2013 Drawing Biennial 2013, Drawing Room, London.
2013 Signs of the City, UBM HQ with Drawing Room, London.
2011 Translate/Transcribe for Moscow Biennale, Central House of Artists, Moscow.
2011 The Invention of Painting, The Centre for Recent Drawing, London.
2009 Bloomberg New Contemporaries, Cornerhouse (Manchester) & A Foundation (London).
2009 Red Mansion Art Prize, Woburn, Slade School of Fine Art, London.
2009 Contested Ground , 176/Zabludowicz Collection, London.
2009 Abandoned by a Third Dimension, The Centre for Recent Drawing, London.
2008 Kunstvlaai, A.P.I., Amsterdam, 2008.
Residencies
2026 J’adore Pierre, The Margate School of Art, Margate, Kent.
2024 Drawing as Slow Conversation, The Writers’ Room Residency, Florence Trust, London.
2008 The Red Mansion Art Prize, Residency and exhibition, Beijing/London.
2003 Association of Independent Art Schools (representing Wimbledon School of Art), Residency and exhibition, Bentlage, Germany.
Curatorial/Editorial Projects
2022 – 2025 Editorial Board, CePRA Journal, journal for practice-led research, University of Leeds.
2024 Reading and Writing Bodies in Space, Practice Notes #1, The Project Space, University of Leeds