Ben Dray

I am a multi-media artist with skills developed as a freelance sculptor and painter making scenery for television, film and display. My work and the mediums I have used have been a reflection of changing stages of life; from photography in my youth where the world seemed openly available as a place to travel and explore to the present where I am exploring the fragile qualities of memory through paint borrowing from the Ukiyo-e floating world woodblock print aesthetic and sensibility. The work shown here was made during the pandemic and became for me, a new vocabulary that was guided by improvisation and the unlikely alloy of tranquility (the weather was beautiful and the air was clean) and threat.

Kingston Polytechnic, Art Foundation
Brighton Polytechnic, Fine Art Degree