Artists
- Andrew Bryant
- Anne-Marie Zanetti
- Ben Hedström
- Charlotte Elizabeth
- Dai Li
- Darren White
- David Hinchliffe
- Erin Conron
- Gareth Edwards RWA
- Jaime Kiss
- James Ainslie
- Jo Young
- June Sartracom
- Ken Barker
- Leonie Barton
- Mairi Ward
- Marie Le Lievre
- Melissa Ladkin
- Michael Ciavarella
- Michael Whitehead
- Mireia Serra
- Mitchell Cheesman
- Paul Reynolds
- Peggy Zephyr
- Rhonda Cao
- Rosella Namok
- Steve Rosendale
- Walala Tjapaltjarri
- Yanni Van Zijl
- Zhong Chen
Ben Hedström
Bio / CV
Ben Hedström is an artist based in Queensland, and his 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.
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
- 2023 “Perspective” Group Exhibition, The G Contemporary, 2023
- 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
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Coastal Dune II (Coolum)
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Creek reflections III
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Creek Reflections IV
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Elevation I (Noosa Heads)
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Elevation II (Noosa Heads)
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Elevation III (Noosa Heads)
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Laguna View (Tea Tree Bay)
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Morning at Granite Bay
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Rocks at Low Tide (Coolum)
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