Ben Howe

Ben Howe is a visual artist, teacher and composer based in Melbourne, Australia and Hamburg, Germany.

The bulk of his work circles issues of representation, structure and consciousness. Coming from a strong background of super realist painting, Howe often produces the initial subjects from photographic or sculptural sources, and uses them as the basis for his artworks.

S O L O E X H I B I T I O N S
2011 Locating Meaning within the Urban Crowd. First Site, Melbourne
2010 Schism Overwrite, ASA Gallery, Hamburg
2009 Graffscapes, Manyung Gallery, Melbourne
2008 Urban Fractures 5-502, Sydney
2007 Once Upon a Space, Brunswick St Gallery, Melbourne
2007 Raumatisiert, Europien art festival, Hamburg
2007 Urban Fractures, SKAM , Hamburg
2006 Surface Variations, Brunswick St Gallery, Melbourne
2004 Forms and shadows, Manyung Gallery, Melbourne
2003 Selected works, Manyung Gallery, Melbourne

G R O U P E X H I B I T I O N S
2011 Space and the city, Eckersley’s Open Space Gallery
2011 Surface, RMIT Gallery, Melbourne
2010 SoBright, Prague, Melbourne
2010 New, Used and Abused, Loft Gallery, Melbourne
2010 The Brunswick Show, The Donkey Wheel, Melbourne
2010 Irenes Street art festival, Irene, Melbourne
2010 Out of Nowhere, 696 INK , Melbourne
2010 Grand Opening Show, 696 INK , Melbourne
2010 Urban Art 10A, Brunswick St Gallery, Melbourne
2009 Gaengeviertel, Hamburg
2009 Pigeon hole 4, The Pigeon Hole, Melbourne
2009 Melbourne stencil festival, Collingwood, Melbourne
2009 Pigeon hole 3, The Pigeon Hole, Melbourne
2009 Art Melbourne, Exhibition Building, Melbourne
2009 Painting 09A, Brunswick Street Gallery, Melbourne
2009 Conduit, Brunswick Street Gallery, Melbourne
2009 Ondru, St James Conference Centre, Melbourne
2009 Pigeon hole 2, The Pigeon Hole, Melbourne
2008 Pigeon hole 1, The Pigeon Hole, Melbourne
2008 Melbourne Fringe Festival, Melbourne
2008 Small works 08, Brunswick Street Gallery, Melbourne
2007 Stencil and Freeform Combinations, A.S.A, Hamburg
2007 Art Melbourne, Exhibition Building, Melbourne
2003 Selected Contemporary Artists, Manyung Gallery, Melbourne
1997 Contingency, RMIT Graduate Show, Span Galleries, Melbourne

C U R A T O R I A L
2009 Pigeon hole 4, The Pigeon Hole, Melbourne
2009 Pigeon hole 3, The Pigeon Hole, Melbourne
2009 Conduit, Brunswick street gallery, Melbourne
2009 Pigeon hole 2, The Pigeon Hole, Melbourne
2008 Pigeon hole 1, The Pigeon Hole, Melbourne

E D U C A T I O N
2010 – Master of Fine Art candidate, RMIT
2001 Graduate Diploma in Secondary Education, Monash
1998 Bachelor of Fine Art, RMIT

R E L A T E D A C T I V I T I E S
2009 Creative Warehouse Network, Brunswick/Northcote
2008 Pigeon hole studios, Brunswick
2007 1 year artist residency, SKAM , Hamburg.
02-09 Art/English teacher, Australia/UK/Germany

A W A R D S
2011 Metro Award, Finalist
2009 Window Frames, Winner
2009 Melbourne stencil festival, Emerging artist Award
2008 I Art Sydney Road, 1st prize

P U B L I C A T I O N S / I N T E R V I E W S
2009 Moreland leader, Pigeon Artists Fire Up Coop, Brigid O’Connell
2009 Art Catalyst, Interview with Paul Ruiz
2009 Creative Brunswick Documentary, Interview with Darcy Gladwin
2008 Mornington Leader, Graffiti artist defends his Work
2008 Pedro Tv, Interview with Peter Mcguiness
2007 SBS Radio, Feuilleton für die Ohren
2004 Selected Contemporary Artists of Australia. Michael Berry.
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