Ben Lingard


MA Fine Art Digital 2025-27


Uncertainty

I’m not sure that I often write these entries as a direct consequence of the Thursday discussion, but this week has given me a lot of food for thought. I think it’s because the conversation ranged across a lot of things that I have been thinking about a lot since I started this course: provisionality,…

Piranesi, Escher, and Jeremy Bentham walk into a bar….

I finished a couple of little paintings last week: The starting point for them was some collage work that I made when I was planning the exhibition earlier this year. I think they are perfectly OK paintings, but what is interesting is that I also feel like I’ve moved on from them almost as soon…

On writing

In the zoom on Thursday, I made the claim that I just bang these posts out. I’m not sure that that’s really true. I think it’s more that I have come to understand the value of the writing. I still don’t find it particularly easy. When I was an undergraduate, I was struck by how…

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