Artists

Ben Hedström

Bio  /  CV

Ben Hedström Bio Ben Hedström’s body of work responds to environments that have become familiar over a long period of time. A relationship with the landscape is developed through everyday encounters and experiences. This rapport reinforces memory and serves as a documentation of somatic grounding, the psychological importance of the physicality of feeling your feet on the ground. Landscape images transcend their aesthetic value and become insights into the metaphysical - principles of being, identity, change, space and time. Hedström's work represents fleeting vignettes of contemplation, suggesting a conflation between the ebullience of connecting with the natural world and melancholy meditations on the fragility of existence.

Born
1978 (Australia)

Resides
Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Australia

Education
B.Art.Ed – UNSW COFA 1999

Experience
2016 – Present  Head of Visual Art, St Andrew’s Anglican College
2000 – 2015 Head of Creative and Performing Arts, Northern Beaches Christian School

Selected Exhibitions
2021 Group Exhibition, Squeeze, Butter Factory Arts Centre
2019 Group Exhibition, Squeeze, Butter Factory Arts Centre
2015  Highly Commended, Pittwater Art Festival – annual exhibition, Avalon Recreation Centre
2015  Finalist Northern Beaches Art Prize (Warringah Art Prize), Curl Curl Creative Space
2013  Tattersall’s Landscape Art Prize, Tattersall’s Club Brisbane
2012  Tattersall’s Landscape Art Prize, Tattersall’s Club Brisbane
2012/13 Archibald Prize 2012 Regional Tour
10 June 2012 – 8 July 2012   TarraWarra Museum of Art, Victoria
14 July 2012 – 26 August 2012   Newcastle Regional Art Gallery
1 September 2012 – 14 October 2012   Cowra Regional Art Gallery
20 October 2012 – 2 December 2012   Western Plains Cultural Centre
7 December 2012 – 20 January 2013   Grafton Regional Gallery
25 January 2013 – 10 March 2013   Hawkesbury Regional Gallery
15 March 2013 – 28 April 2013   New England Regional Gallery
1998 Group Exhibition, UNSW College of Fine Arts Exhibition, UNSW COFA
1998  Group Exhibition, Smith’s Lake Plein Air Exhibition, UNSW COFA Gallery
1995 Group Exhibition, Express Yourself, Manly Art Gallery and Museum

Art Prizes
2015  Highly Commended, Pittwater Art Festival – annual exhibition, Avalon Recreation Centre
2015  Finalist Northern Beaches Art Prize (Warringah Art Prize), Curl Curl Creative Space
2013  Finalist – Tattersall’s Landscape Art Prize, Tattersall’s Club Brisbane
2012  Finalist – Tattersall’s Landscape Art Prize, Tattersall’s Club Brisbane
2012  Finalist Archibald Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales
2011  Winner – Salon Show Art Prize,  Painter’s Gallery Mona Vale

Work