Ben Lingard (he/him)

I make art that tells stories of the city.

My art is an autobiographical drift through past and present. It is the piecing together of an uncertain cartography of half-remembered and never-happened memories. A non-sequential line of (im)possible moments.

How do you capture a moment? How do you live in the moment? My body races ahead and the moment is always behind me, an unknowable buoy bobbing in my wake.

My art is therefore a reinvention. A simulacrum of lost times in half-remembered places. It is the re-presentation of an urban drift that stetches ahead and behind and yet remains just beyond my grasp. It is my madeleine.

I make work wanders a line somewhere between figuration and abstraction. Drawing is the bedrock of my practice and I work in a range of media including painting, print making, paper crafts, photography and film making.