Artists

Ben Hedström

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