Ben Lingard is a London-born artist who currently lives and works in Glasgow.

He graduated from the Glasgow School of Art in 2022 with a degree in Painting & Printmaking. On graduating he was awarded a John Kinross travel scholarship and spent three months living and working in Florence, Italy.

Lingard works across various mediums but always with a strong emphasis on drawing. His practice addresses and brings together a number of interests including psychogeography and the life of the city, the nature of memory, the act of looking, and the role of craft in contemporary art. He is currently researching the mediation of memory through the use of generative ai.

In 2022 Lingard co-founded the collective Old Contemporaries which works to create opportunities for, and campaigns on behalf of, mature emerging artists.

Ben teaches painting, drawing and print making at Leith School of Art in Edinburgh. He is currently studying for an MA in Fine Art at Central St Martins in London.

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