Ben Lingard


MA Fine Art Digital 2025-27


Spectrum

A long train journey back from London tonight. I am glad that I made the trip down. I could have posted the paintings, or asked Jonathan to print them for me, but I was lucky enough to have the time available to go in person. I am trying to take every opportunity to learn something…

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Experiments #3

Loads more work-in-progress shots. I’m having fun in the studio at the moment, rattling between lots of different canvases. Of course, these canvases are tiny [20 x 30 cm], so it feels pretty easy and low stakes to mess around with them. It would be interesting to scale the process up at some point and see…

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Context Matters

I saw the Hurvin Anderson exhibition at Tate Britain on Saturday. I knew that I wanted to see it. I knew that I was likely to enjoy it (unless they had really messed it up), and the framing controversy had made me a bit wary. I’m glad to say that it is VERY good. A longish digression…

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How to Feel Like a Renaissance Prince

It’s quite funny how I’ve transitioned from finding it really hard to write entries for this journal to wanting to write them all the time. I had no idea that there was a wee Samuel Pepys in me, bursting to get out and shout about what he had for breakfast. I think maybe the problem…

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