Abridged Curriculum Vitae
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Currently;
'Honorary Research Fellow for Environmental Advocacy at the intersection of Science and Contemporary Art', at the University of Sheffield, Institute for Sustainable Food
Education;
1980-83 Sheffield City Polytechnic, BA(Hons) Fine Art Sculpture
Employment;
1988 to date; Self employed sculptor/multimedia artist
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Note; From 1998 to date, I have worked with artist Yinka Shonibare, creating well over a hundred artworks which have been shown and collected worldwide. Recently culminating in delivering “Monument to the Restitution of the Mind and Soul” for the Nigerian Pavilion at the Venice Biennale 2024.
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Anthony Bennett Recent exhibitions;
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9th June 2024; “Forget Me Not” installation with Paul Evans. Whitworth Art Gallery (Park), Manchester
November 2023; Group show – “Autumn Almanac III”, Persistence Works Gallery, Sheffield
June 2023; “Kunststoff”, Western Bank Library, Uni of Sheffield (Sept 23 to date; Dainton Building, UoS)
12th -30th June 2023; Solo show “Art and Soil”, with Sheffield Arts Lab, Secret Gallery, Sheffield
March 2023; Group Show, “FungArt” Mycology 2023, Queen Elizabeth Exhibition Centre, London
November 2022; Group Show – “Autumn Almanac II”, Exchange Place Studios, Sheffield
16th June-7th Sept 2023; 'Kunststoff' Western Bank Library, University of Sheffield, Sheffield
12th-30th June 2023; "Art and Soil", Major Show at Secret Gallery, Sheffield, with Sheffield Arts Lab
22nd-27th May 2023; "Teddy", at SA_LE, Shefield Markets, Sheffield
15th-16th March 2023; "The Queen Other (Red Queen)", Mycology 2023, Queen Elizabeth Conference Centre, London
15th-25th September 2022; 'Authentic Corpse' Millennium Galleries, Sheffield, Festival of the Mind 2022, 'Futurecade'
15th-25th September 2022; 'Kunststoff' Millennium Galleries, Sheffield, Festival of the Mind 2022, 'Futurecade'
12th-15th July 2022; 'Lullabiome', Installation at The Great Yorkshire Show 2022, nr Harrogate, UK
14th March 2022; 'Bittersweet Air' at The Royal Society, London, with Gisele. Also 'Severed connections' and 'Spirare Ritualis'
12th-21st November 2021; Group show 'Autumn Almanac', Exchange Place, Sheffield
July/Aug 2021; Solo Show “Metamycota”, Studio 1.1 Gallery, Shoreditch, London
Sept 2020; 'Bittersweet Air', Millennium Galleries Sheffield, for Futurecade, FOTM 2020
Apr 2019; Group show, 'Gender', Prism Contemporary Gallery, Blackburn
28th-31st Mar 2019; Group show, 'We're never doing that again'. S&M, Sheffield
3rd Feb-1st Mar 2019; Group show, 'The Future of Food' SciArt Center exhibiton, Usagi Gallery, Brooklyn , New York, USA
20th-23rd Dec 2018; Group show, 'Bethlehem Boys Club', Sidney & Matilda, Sheffield
18th-21st Dec 2018; Group show 'Confluence' Sheffield, Bloc Projects Gallery
16th-25th Nov 2018; Group Show,'Modern Panic IX', Guerrilla Zoo, Archive Gallery, London
9th Nov-2nd Dec 2018; Collaborative work with Augustinas Naslenas, feat in 'Dream Reaper – Seeker of Visions', Klaipeda Centre of Culture Communications, Lithuania.
15th-26th Oct 2018; Group show 'Confluence', Herrick Gallery, Mayfair, London
20th-27th Sept 2018; 'Refugerminate', @ 'Futurecade', Festival of the Mind, Millennium Galleries, Sheffield
14th July-29th July 2018; Group Show 'This Class Works', Burton Rd , Sheffield
26th June-6th December 2018; 'The Great Omi' @ “British Tattoo Art Revealed”, Portsmouth Historic Dockyard Naval Museum
24th March-5th May 2018; Group show; 'Malevolent Eldritch Shrieking', #AttercliffeTM, Sheffield
2nd March - 6th June 2018; 'The Great Omi' @ “British Tattoo Art Revealed”, Torre Abbey, Torquay
9th Sept - 2nd December 2017; 'The Gene Genie', Red Deer, Sheffield
March 2017; “The Red Shoes” aka “Sustainability Dancer” sculpture permanently sited at the Dept of Social Sciences ICOSS building, The University of Sheffield.
March 2017 – Jan 2018; 'The Great Omi' @ “British Tattoo Art Revealed”, National Maritime Museum Cornwall.
7-13th Nov 16; STAVE shown at Braunschweig International Film Festival, Germany
Mar-Sept 2016; Gaiamycota. A collaboration with Professor Duncan Cameron from the University of Sheffield, digital artist Augustinas Naslenas, and musician Ryan Taylor. A multi disciplinary project for the Festival of The Mind 2016. It was presented at;
10th-25th Sept 16; Installation at “Futurecade”, Millenium Galleries Sheffield.
23rd Sept 16; Gaiamycota- The Performance. At The Spiegeltent, Barkers Pool, Sheffield.
6th-22nd July 16; “Hard Graft”, a 3d printed artwork (part of my ‘digitally dextrous’ project) was displayed at ‘Printing Sheffield 3D’, Old Post Office Gallery, Sheffield Hallam Uni
1st-4th April 16; sculptural installation in collaboration with artist Paul Evans entitled “What do you think about when you think about Bees?” Winter Gardens Sheffield
Recent performance;
12th June 2023; 'Art and Soil' at Secret Gallery. Sheffield, with Sheffield Arts Lab
16th June 2021; "Bittersweet Air", Global Live Streamed 'Planet to Plate' Festival, University of Sheffield
5th Dec 19; “Grub Gets Cross”, Bethlehem Boys Club 3, S&M, Sheffield
31st October 19; “Grub and Rump”, Sidney and Matilda Gallery, Sheffield
14th July-29th July 2018; Daily performance at 'This Class Works', Burton Rd , Sheffield
Online exhibitions/features;
July 23; 'Krillzine' feat Viro and Totem, and cover images
Apr 21; 'Artists Responding To' magazine, 4 images from 'Lullabiome', inc front cover image.
Feb 21; Climate Cultures feat Deadkidsfingers
Oct 20; Michigan State University SciComm, 'Catalyst', feat 6 works.
Aug 20; The Art Lab online, “Art During Covid”, feat 'Spirare Ritualis'
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Publications;
A R T (artists responding to) magazine, front cover and feature
Krill Magazine; front cover image and two page feature
Adventures of Grub inmAppland (self published)
Metamycota (self published)
Forthcoming exhibitions/performance;
23rd August 2024; Performance - ‘The Whole of the Road’ with Sheffield Arts Lab, Sheffield
!5th-25th Sept 2024; 'TARDISH' installation at Festival of the Mind 2024, Sheffield
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For full CV please contact absculpture@blueyonder.co.uk