"My work is informed by a fascination with antiquarian imagination and subjectivity in scientific illustration. Working primarily in pen and ink in deliberate imitation of the style of woodcuts and engravings, I enjoy the implied gravitas that comes from using the visual language of the scientific illustrator and employ this to my own ends creating alternative narratives."
Ben Lawson has a Physics degree from Bristol University and an MSc from Cranfield University. He has previously exhibited at the National Glass Centre in Sunderland and once filled the Literary & Philosophical Society with cephalopods. He moved to Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK from Paris in 2005.
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| Education | |
| 2001 - 02 | M.Sc. Global Security, Cranfield University |
| 1994 - 97 | B.Sc. Physics, Bristol University |
| Selected Group Exhibitions | |
| 2010 | Factory Folk Celebration Event, Literary and Philosophical Society, Newcastle upon Tyne |
| Freaks, Shoreditch Town Hall Basement Gallery, London | |
| 2008 | Art From The Ocean, National Glass Centre, Sunderland |
| Lost North,Literary and Philosophical Society, Newcastle upon Tyne | |
| Brick Lane Gallery, London | |
| Defector, Format Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne | |
| Trattles and Gealls Fine Art, Whitby, North Yorkshire | |
| 2007 | Summer Exhibition, Alnwick Gardens, Alnwick, Northumberland |
| Gallery Glue, Tyne and Wear | |
| Workshops & Residencies | |
| 2010 | Science for artists, Made In Newcastle, Newcastle Upon Tyne |
| 2008 | Blue Reef Aquarium, Tyne and Wear |
| Selected Commissions | |
| 2010 | Red Nile Projects, Sunderland |
| 2009 | CREST Research Group, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne |
