A video tour of Paul Benney’s Solo Show ‘Scrying Mirror’ at the Anima Mundi Gallery:

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An Interview with Paul Benney about his show ‘Scrying Mirror’ at the Anima Mundi Gallery:

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Please save the date for the preview evening of Paul Benney’s solo exhibition ‘Scrying Mirror’ at the Anima Mundi Gallery in St. Ives, Cornwall.

‘Scrying Mirror’
Anima Mundi 
Street-An-Pol, St. Ives, Cornwall TR26 2DS
The Preview Evening will be:
Saturday 12th November, from 7 – 9 pm. 

Anima Mundi:
Street-An-Pol, St. Ives, Cornwall TR26 2DS

The exhibition will continue until 10th January 2017. 

Please save the date for the preview evening of Paul Benney’s solo exhibition ‘Scrying Mirror’ at the Anima Mundi Gallery in St. Ives, Cornwall.

‘Scrying Mirror’
Anima Mundi 
Street-An-Pol, St. Ives, Cornwall TR26 2DS
The Preview Evening will be:
Saturday 12th November, from 7 – 9 pm. 

Anima Mundi:
Street-An-Pol, St. Ives, Cornwall TR26 2DS

The exhibition will continue until 10th January 2017. 

 ANIMA-MUNDI AT THE HERRICK GALLERY

“Listen closely… the eternal hush of silence goes on and on throughout all this, and has been going on, and will go on and on. This is because the world is nothing but a dream and is just thought of and the everlasting eternity pays no attention to it.”
-Jack Kerouac

FROM SILENCE

Show Dates: 17th October – 5th November, 2016
Address: Herrick Gallery, 93 Piccadilly, Mayfair, London, W1J 7NQ (Nearest underground is Green Park)
Private View : Monday, October 17th. 6:00-8:00 PM.
Please contact the studio to request an invitation to the Private View

The exhibition contains works by (in alphabetical order) : Laura J Adams, Simon Allen, Simon Averill, Sarah Ball, Samuel Bassett, Trevor Bell, Paul Benney, Beatrice Brown, Mat Chivers, Steve Goddard, Andrew Hardwick, Youki Hirakawa, Sax Impey RWA, Arthur Lanyon, Richard Nott, Peter Randall-Page RA, Tim Shaw RA, Jarno Vesala, Joy Wolfenden Brown, Carlos Zapata

More information on the ‘Behind Silence’ show can be found HERE

 ANIMA-MUNDI AT THE HERRICK GALLERY

“Listen closely… the eternal hush of silence goes on and on throughout all this, and has been going on, and will go on and on. This is because the world is nothing but a dream and is just thought of and the everlasting eternity pays no attention to it.”
-Jack Kerouac

FROM SILENCE

Show Dates: 17th October – 5th November, 2016
Address: Herrick Gallery, 93 Piccadilly, Mayfair, London, W1J 7NQ (Nearest underground is Green Park)
Private View : Monday, October 17th. 6:00-8:00 PM.
Please contact the studio to request an invitation to the Private View

The exhibition contains works by (in alphabetical order) : Laura J Adams, Simon Allen, Simon Averill, Sarah Ball, Samuel Bassett, Trevor Bell, Paul Benney, Beatrice Brown, Mat Chivers, Steve Goddard, Andrew Hardwick, Youki Hirakawa, Sax Impey RWA, Arthur Lanyon, Richard Nott, Peter Randall-Page RA, Tim Shaw RA, Jarno Vesala, Joy Wolfenden Brown, Carlos Zapata

More information on the ‘Behind Silence’ show can be found HERE

Fundraising Preview Night: 12 September 2016
Art For Youth 2016 Show: 13 September – 15 September 2016

 

Fundraising Preview Night:
September 12th, 2016.
Tickets available HERE

Paul Benney will be having a solo show at Anima Munidi in Cornwall this coming October that will exhibit elements from his ‘Dark Mirror’ series as well as new works that will draw upon some the themes of a ‘Scrying Mirrors’ . More details on this show will be announced soon.

St. Ives, Cornwall, UK.
October 2016

A limited edition sliver giclee print of Paul Benney’s ‘Speaking in Tongues’ will take up the main wall in the downstairs bar of the House of St. Barnabas until the Summer of 2017. The work is a large scale ( 2m x 3m ) reproduction of the original and is also available for sale. The House of St, Barnabas is a not-for-profit members club that focuses on the arts.

The bar area was also curated Paul Benney and includes works by Tim Shaw, Bill Jackson and Susan Derges.

The House of St Barnabas
1 Greek St
London W1D 4NQ
Summer 2016 – Summer 2017

A limited edition sliver giclee print of Paul Benney’s ‘Speaking in Tongues’ will take up the main wall in the downstairs bar of the House of St. Barnabas until the Summer of 2017. The work is a large scale ( 2m x 3m ) reproduction of the original and is also available for sale. The House of St, Barnabas is a not-for-profit members club that focuses on the arts.

The bar area was also curated Paul Benney and includes works by Tim Shaw, Bill Jackson and Susan Derges.

Paul Benney’s post posthumous portrait of Nelson Mandela was unveiled at the Rhodes House in Oxfordshire on June 13th. The new work is on permanent display there and can be seen year round.

Rhodes House
Oxford, OX1 3RG
Permanent Collection

Paul Benney and Benney Studios are happy to announce the installation of a the new sound component that now accompanies ‘Speaking in Tongues’ in Chichester Cathedral.

A short clip of the ‘Sound Wash’ that accompanies the work can he heard below:

Paul Benney’s portrait of Nitin Sawhney is featured on the cover of his new album ‘Dystopian Dream’ as well as during his live performance.

More information about the new album and upcoming shows can be found by clicking on the links below:

Dystopian Dream

Nitin Sawhney’s Upcoming Performances 

Paul Benney and Benney Studios are happy to announce the installation of a the new sound component that now accompanies ‘Speaking in Tongues’ in Chichester Cathedral.
A short clip of the ‘Sound Wash’ that accompanies the work can he heard below:

 

 
Paul Benney will be showing work at the Collyer Bristow Gallery this Summer in Face Value at the Collyer Bristow Gallery.
Face Value, is curated by Kathleen Soriano and sees her undertake a consideration of contemporary portraiture through the work of 27 emerging and established artists, covering a broad range of media from porcelain to thread, from oils to ink, from etching to photography.  Kathleen Soriano spent 18 years of her career as Director of Exhibitions & Collections at the National Portrait Gallery, running the BP Portrait Award for the majority of that time, and is now one of the judges on SkyArts’ successful SkyArts Portrait Artist of the Year series.
Over forty works of art will be presented in an exhibition that celebrates those artists who continue to make portraiture central to their work but who also continue to push the boundaries of the genre.  Artists include Royal Academicians Eileen Cooper, Stephen Chambers and Anthony Green, as well as BP Portrait Award finalists such as Tai Shan Schierenberg, Paul Benney, Ishbel Myerscough and Andrew Tift, plus celebrated contemporary artists like Chris Levine, Annie Kevans, Liz Rideal, Sam Faulkner, Mariele Neudecker, Bouke de Vries and a number of finalists from SkyArts Portrait Artist of the Year.  The exhibition opens on 16 June 2016 and will be on show until 4 October 2016.

Paul Benney will be showing work at the Collyer Bristow Gallery this Summer in Face Value at the Collyer Bristow Gallery.

Face Value, is curated by Kathleen Soriano and sees her undertake a consideration of contemporary portraiture through the work of 27 emerging and established artists, covering a broad range of media from porcelain to thread, from oils to ink, from etching to photography.  Kathleen Soriano spent 18 years of her career as Director of Exhibitions & Collections at the National Portrait Gallery, running the BP Portrait Award for the majority of that time, and is now one of the judges on SkyArts’ successful SkyArts Portrait Artist of the Year series.

Over forty works of art will be presented in an exhibition that celebrates those artists who continue to make portraiture central to their work but who also continue to push the boundaries of the genre.  Artists include Royal Academicians Eileen Cooper, Stephen Chambers and Anthony Green, as well as BP Portrait Award finalists such as Tai Shan Schierenberg, Paul Benney, Ishbel Myerscough and Andrew Tift, plus celebrated contemporary artists like Chris Levine, Annie Kevans, Liz Rideal, Sam Faulkner, Mariele Neudecker, Bouke de Vries and a number of finalists from SkyArts Portrait Artist of the Year.  The exhibition opens on 16 June 2016 and will be on show until 4 October 2016.

Curated by Jason Colcin-Carter and Becca Pelly, ‘In The End We Are All Alone’ brings together a number of artists that will explore the nature of humanity and the eternal search of meaning in our daily lives.

The show is being held at the Griffin Galley  and runs from 17 March – 22 April 2016.

“Like musical prodigies, these artists have been chosen for their capacity to reinterpret traditional mediums and techniques in unexpected ways: Paul Benney, Bartholomew Beal, Jimin Chea, Guillemette Monchy, Dorte Kloppenborg Scrummager and Guy Hadden Grant. An international collective that screams zeitgeist, brought together by a visionary art agency with Colchin-Carter at the helm who, like Simco (Stefan Simchowitz) in the US, is changing the status quo and giving collectors access to some of the brightest rising stars of this generation.

“I see the resurgence of traditional skills like drawing, painting and sculpting as a reaction to the YBA’s turning 50. They are now BA’s and still very relevant, but artists like Beal or Jimin seem to really strike a chord with collectors looking for something new, where the hand of the artist is really palpable,” says Colchin-Carter.

It is a welcome tonic to the mechanical and deliberately impersonal Postmodernism that dominated the turn of the century in contemporary galleries and museums.”

Curated by Jason Colcin-Carter and Becca Pelly, ‘In The End We Are All Alone’ brings together a number of artists that will explore the nature of humanity and the eternal search of meaning in our daily lives.

The show is being held at the Griffin Galley  and runs from 17 March – 22 April 2016.

“Like musical prodigies, these artists have been chosen for their capacity to reinterpret traditional mediums and techniques in unexpected ways: Paul Benney, Bartholomew Beal, Jimin Chea, Guillemette Monchy, Dorte Kloppenborg Scrummager and Guy Hadden Grant. An international collective that screams zeitgeist, brought together by a visionary art agency with Colchin-Carter at the helm who, like Simco (Stefan Simchowitz) in the US, is changing the status quo and giving collectors access to some of the brightest rising stars of this generation.

“I see the resurgence of traditional skills like drawing, painting and sculpting as a reaction to the YBA’s turning 50. They are now BA’s and still very relevant, but artists like Beal or Jimin seem to really strike a chord with collectors looking for something new, where the hand of the artist is really palpable,” says Colchin-Carter.
It is a welcome tonic to the mechanical and deliberately impersonal Postmodernism that dominated the turn of the century in contemporary galleries and museums.”

‘SPEAKING IN TONGUES’ is currently on view in CHICHESTER CATHEDRAL’s North Transept until Wednesday May 18th, 2016. For information on attending a private reception onApril 1st 2016 please contact the studio directly. [ info@benneystudios.com ].

CHICHESTER CATHEDRAL
Chichester
PO19 1PX
MARCH 11- MAY 18, 2016.
Open Daily with Free Entry