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My work is now represented by Andelli Gallery. We will be working together over the next year on a curatorial project for the November/ December show. Big thanks to Ellie! Andelli Gallery https://www.andelliart.com/artists/ben-risk

Harking back to 2018.... During a period where I was experimenting with materials ,thinking about remote islands, the sea, the sounds and the possibility of visiting the Shiant Isles ; a small group of remote islands in the Minch, a strait in north-west Scotland that separates the mainland from Lewis and Harris in the Outer Hebrides. The resulting painting entitled ' Knee Deep in the North Sea' (2018), also a song title by Portico Quartet featured in a group show at the Mis

Curated by Ben Risk for the Arb Building, University of Cambridge. Diverse Pleasures brings together a group of artists who currently live and work in the UK. The group have been drawn to each other through years of friendship and discussion, and the work in this exhibition is reflective of their shared interests. Works in the exhibition were chosen for their individual qualities rather than their usefulness to curatorial thesis, but a notion of genre emerges as central. They

Installation from the exhibition - Wagtails on Moon Street - 2021. A joint show with Adam Hedley . click image to load video