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BEN JONES
 

ARTIST STATEMENT

I am an artist and curator, interested in web-based work, video, drawing and animation. I have exhibited locally, nationally and internationally gaining commissions as well as working with communities and in schools on socially engaged projects. I have worked for a variety of different organisations from an artist run studio and gallery to a large contemporary gallery in a number of different roles. My practice deals with how the reality we live in is constructed by media, where there are many different beliefs, which can be accepted, rejected or modified. I am interested in the disintegration of traditional social discussion and debate (counter/ public spheres), due to media saturation, and how it now manifest’s itself in many new and technological ways.