Ben Gooding

One of the central concerns of my work is the idea that great complexity is derived from great simplicity. This "bottom-up" approach is analogous to materialist theories that powerfully describe the natural phenomena we observe in the world from the molecular to the cosmological.

I'm interested in how an underpinning system based on a few basic parameters can generate something that is visually complex and highly intricate, but is borne out of a highly reductive process.

Using simple mathematical devices such as iterative sequences, repeated geometric motifs and varying particular numerical values of integers and angles, a structure will emerge that is bounded by and existent upon these principles. A visual aggregate of the system that defines it.

Often the initial act will be to make an automatic line by hand that describes the spontaneity of a direct and unmeasured moment. The instancy of this mark acts in relief to the highly methodical and deterministic nature of the process it then undergoes.

These dichotomies hang in tension with each other, the one a tacit recognition of the "artist's hand", the other concerned with the pure and detached language of mathematics. The work is simultaneously reliant upon and...

Ma Fine Art from Central St.Martin's college of Art and Design (Byam Shaw).

1st class Ba(Hons) Fine Art Printmaking from the Cambridge School of Art.

Foundation in Art and Design from Suffolk College.

Up-coming Exhibitions:


"Striations", a group exhibition at Close Gallery in Somerset, with the support of Freeny Yianni - June 2024.



Selected Exhibitions:


2024-

"Chromascopic", a group exhibition at APT Gallery in London curated by Laurence Noga and Ben Gooding -
click link to view catalogue

2021-

"Rhythm Adjust (part II)", group exhibition in conjunction with the "Breathe Project", curated by Hannah Payne
and Zanny Mellor at T.M. Lighting Gallery, London

"At a Tangent", a group exhibition curated by Ben Gooding at the Cut, Halesworth, Suffolk, UK -
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"Rhythm Adjust (part I)", an on-line charity exhibition and auction for Frontline 19


2019-

"Iterations", a group exhibition curated by Rebecca Fairman and Ben Gooding at Arthouse1 gallery in
Bermondsey, London - click link to view catalogue

"8 Lines", a group exhibition curated by Saturation Point Projects, at Platform A Gallery, Middlesbrough, UK

"Chromatic Tensions", end of residency exhibition as part of the "Senado Tomado" event at the Despina
Foundation, Rio di Janeiro, Brazil


2018-

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