Ben Dhaliwal

Ben Dhaliwal’s artwork belongs to a world of atmosphere, narrative and above all nostalgia, perhaps for something never experienced. His landscapes and interiors are populated by archetypal figures. Magicians, Clowns, Kings, Queens, Angels, Performing Animals and characters from and inspired by his love of baroque opera. All of them have in common that they are figures out of place in the modern, materialist world. His performers stand as practitioners of either lost, pointless or superseded skills; much like any painter, especially one occupied with representational or figurative subject matter. The situations in which they are depicted are often either prior to or after an event to which the viewer has not been privileged and must therefore provide interpretation and meaning. Clues and symbols abound in the plethora of seemingly irrelevant objects which lie discarded in the corners and shadows of his theatrical spaces. His paintings are also rich in art historical references contrasted by deliberate anachronisms of textile, costume detail and furnishing. These are there to be enjoyed by those who care to take the time but are non-essential and subservient to the overall effect. The kitsch and sentimental content in his wo...

University of Leeds, 1985 - 1989 History of Fine and Decorative Arts, BA.Hons

University of Manchester 1989 - 1990 Art Gallery and Museum Studies, Diploma

October - November 2018 Büro Michael Plazer,
Wiener Neustadt. Solo Exhibition.

August 2018 Weingut Kitla, Kellergassefest,
Haugsdorf NÖ

May 2018 Maifest. Weingut Jöbstl,
Langenlois, Wachau.

March - May 2017. Das Büro FREM Gruppe.
Solo Exhibition of Drawings and Paintings.

September 2016 Bergisch Gladbach Germany 'SLOW ART', Group Exhibition of Complot 4 Artists, Studio 24 Gallery

October November 2015,
'Zmove, Complicity, Complot'
Galeria Szutuki Rozbruch,
Poznan Poland
Group Exhibition with artists from Poland, Holland and Germany.

July 2015 Waldviertel, Upper Austria, 10 Years of Schuttkasten Primmersdorf, Schuttkasten Gallery

July - September 2015 Small Gallery Ernst Fuchs Museum, Vienna, Austria. group show with Fantastic Realist Artist Michael Maschka.

August 2015, 15th Kunststichting, Goudreede, Arts Festival, Netherlands, group exhibition

Barockschloss Riegesburg, Lower Austria 'Einfach Fantastisch' group exhibition, with artists of the Vienna Fantastic Realist School.

September 2014 14 th Kunststichting Goudereede Arts Festival, Netherlands Group Exhibition

April 2014, Hofstede Galerie Lijn3, Netherlands,'Nude in Landscape' Group Exhibition,

October 2013 Hostede Galerie Lij...