Ben Alden

Benjamin Alden is an award winning contemporary figurative painter living and working in Norwich, Norfolk, UK.
Benjamin’s work has been shown nationally, with recent exhibitions including Mall Gallery shows such as ‘ING Discerning Eye 2022’ and ‘Figurative Art Now’.
In his creative practice, Benjamin explores the human condition with prominent themes of interaction, connection, and our relationship to one another. Through focusing on the subtle moments of interaction his works become snapshot compositions of subjects in which the viewer becomes an onlooker to these intimate and often ambiguous moments. In turn this allows us to consider our own connections and our relationships to these characters.
Working in a range of paint mediums from Oil to Watercolour and Gouache, Benjamin’s works use an immersive use of light and closely cropped composition to invite the viewer in and speak to the universality of the human condition.

Norwich University of the Arts, BA Fine Art Painting, 2011.

Selected Exhibitions:
2022 ING Discerning Eye. Mall Galleries, London.
2022 Norfolk Open Studios. The Forum, Norwich.
2022 Awash. Handa Gallery, Wells-next-the-sea.
2021 Figurative Art Now. Mall Galleries, Online.
2021 Figura 21. St Margarets Church of Art, Norwich
2021 Waterways. Babylon Gallery, Ely.
2021 Summer Open Exhibition. The Assembly House
Trust, Norwich.
2020 SEAW Selected Exhibition. Society of East
Anglian Watercolourists, online.
2020 T.B.A Artist Collective: 04. St Margaret’s Church of
Arts, Norwich.
2020 Em-Re-Un Presents: Emanate. Anteros Arts
Foundation, Norwich.
2019 Paint In Progress. Anteros Arts Foundation,
Norwich
2019 Em-Re-Un Presents: Consume. Nunns Yard
Gallery, Norwich
2018 Connection. Handa Gallery, Wells-Next-The-Sea
2017 Sardines and Beer. Thirteen A Gallery, Norwich.
2016 Building Art Spaces: 8 Selected Artists. Nunns
Yard Gallery, Norwich
2016 Summer Drawing Show. Riverside Art & Glass
Gallery, Wroxham
2014 12/28 Members Exhibition. STEW Gallery,
Norwich
2014 Inspired by Birds. ...