For ‘Now, At Last’, Ben Rivers had the intention to film sloths in their natural environment to examine them as successful creatures rather than the slow laziness humans have always associated them with, from the seven deadly sins to internet memes.
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Ben Rivers wins the second EYE Art & Film Prize.
London-based Ben Rivers was chosen from a shortlist presented to the Jury by an international Advisory Board
Continue Reading...2012 SHORTLIST ANNOUNCED FOR THE 5TH YEAR OF THE PRESTIGIOUS FILM LONDON JARMAN AWARD
Film London and Channel 4 in association with the Whitechapel Gallery are excited to announce a stellar line up of ten UK-based contemporary artists, comprising Brad Butler & Karen Mirza, Marcus Coates, Shezad Dawood, Benedict Drew, Nathaniel Mellors, James Richards, Ben Rivers, Aura Satz, Matt Stokes and Thomson & Craighead, as the shortlisted artists for […]
Continue Reading...BEN RIVERS at Kate Mac Garry Private View Thursday 11th March
BEN RIVERS 12 March – 2 May 2010 For his first exhibition at the gallery Ben Rivers has assembled a dwelling from discarded and reclaimed building materials. Inside, his film Origin of the Species (2008) offers a clandestine portrait of an elderly man living in a ramshackle cottage in the wilderness of the Scottish highlands. […]
Continue Reading...Klaus Part 3 Armory Show Pier 94 and Independent
‘The Great British Road Trip’ at The Idea Generation Gallery Wednesday PV 22nd July
The 6 artists selected for this year’s Vauxhall Collective commission are Jonathan Kelsey, Ben Rivers, Gayle Chong Kwan, Gideon Reeling, Simon Hasan and Matthew Darbyshire. Working across the full breadth of the creative spectrum the UK’s most talented and exciting artists exhibit together for the first time under one roof at Idea Generation Gallery, working […]
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