benjaminthomasjenner@gmail.com
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UPCOMING
October 2024: Lin[e]guistic Diagrams: Scripting the Workshop From Beyond the Visual, for Drawing Across x Along x Between University Borders conference, University of Porto
November 2024: Drawing as Slow Conversation, a collaborative project with Louise Adkins, The Writers’ Room London
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EDUCATION
2024 University of Leeds, Doctor of Philosophy (Fine Art Practice) PhD
2022 University of Leeds Associate Fellow of AdvanceHE
2009 Slade School of Art MFA (Painting)
2004 Wimbledon School of Art BA Fine Art (Painting)
2001 Kent Institute of Art and Design BTEC Diploma in Art and Design
ACADEMIC AWARDS
2019 AHC Faculty Scholarship 3 years full time doctoral study University of Leeds
2008 The Red Mansion Art Prize Residency and exhibition, Beijing/UK Slade School of Art
2007 AHRC Grant 2 years full time study Slade School of Art
2004 Dean’s ‘Best in Show’ Award Financial award Wimbledon S of A
2003 AIAS Print Workshop Award Residency and exhibition, Germany Wimbledon S of A
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
2019 – 2024 Associate Lecturer University of Leeds
Over the last five years, I have taught extensively on the Fine Art BA Studio Module, within the school of Fine Art, History of Art, and Cultural Studies (FAHACS) at the University of Leeds. The teaching involves one-to-one tutorials, group crits, as well as the design, delivery, and administration of bespoke workshops.
Vising/Guest Lecturer (2009-present)
Foundation Studies (Fine Art) University for the Creative Arts 2018/19
BA Fine Art University of Kent 2014
BA Fine Art Moscow School of Art 2011
Foundation Studies Bath School of Art 2009-2011
BA Fine Art Central St Martins 2009
PERFORMATIVE PRESENTATIONS, WORKSHOPS and CONVERSATIONS
- Sensing the Presentation Through Dialogue: A Collective Wor[l]ding of Non-Visual Culture, MCCT, Nottingham Trent University, 2024
- Blindfolded Feedback, Practice-Led Symposium, University of Leeds, 2023
- Walking Between Wor[l]ds With Lines SAR, University of Vienna, 2023
- ANOTHER WALK IN AFTERNOON SUNSHINE, EARN (European Artist Research Network) Helsinki, 2022
- A WALK IN AFTER NOON SUN SHINE, Psychosocial Cartographies conference, Anglo American University, Prague, Czech Republic, 2022
- DROP ON BUCKEYE TREE, presented at the Center for Practice Research in the Arts (CPRA), University of Central Lancashire, Preston, 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, April 2021
- 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, April 2021
- 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, February 2021
- In Conversation: Benjamin Jenner with Simon Lewandowski, writer and director of The Mind Is Flat: a performance for two voices and one actor, January 2021,
- 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… University of Leeds, October 2020
- 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, University of Leeds, June 2020
MEMBERSHIPS:
Local Senses: I co-founded Local Senses, a collective of nine individuals undergoing
changes to their vision in 2019. Together, we collectively explore relationships to site through urban walking practices. We share this work via public facing workshops.
Completed projects to date:
- Mapping in Woolwich ( 2023) Commissioned by Royal Borough of Greenwich
- Mapping in Lewisham (2021-22) Commissioned for Liberty Festival 2022 – a festival celebrating the work of D/deaf disabled and neurodivergent artists, as part of London Borough of Culture
- Mapping in Bloomsbury (2019-20) Funded by Mayor of London’s Culture Seeds Grant
Society of Artistic Research: Active member of Language-Based Artistic Research Group.
Reading and Writing Bodies in Space: Established in 2022 by myself and artist Louise Adkins. A reading and writing group exploring language as a spatial, temporal, social practice through the production of publications in a variety of formats (artist books, chapbooks, alternative cartographies, film/video, performance).
PUBLICATIONS
2023, Practice Sharing II, Language-Based Artistic Research Group online archive
2023, Another Walk in Afternoon Sunshine, CePRA Journal, University of Leeds
2022, Translation and Re-presentation…, CePRA Journal, University of Leeds
2017, Luxurious Night, Garageland, pub. Transition Gallery, London
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2014 May-July: FROM NO FIXED POINT, Foundry Gallery, London
2005 Dimensions Variable, The Metre Square Gallery, London
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024 March: Reading and Writing Bodies in Space, The Project Space, School of Fine Art, History of Art & Cultural Studies, University of Leeds
2022 June: M2 ARTISTS: RECENT WORK 2, London
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