Benedict Drew

Brad Butler & Karen Mirza
Marcus Coates
Shezad Dawood
Benedict Drew
Nathaniel Mellors
James Richards
Ben Rivers
Aura Satz
Matt Stokes
Thomson & Craighead

Art Monthly features my work on the cover and a review of Gliss by Adam Pugh

with John Russell, Dean Kenning, Suzanne Treister, Simon Davenport, Reza Negarestani, Lawrence Leaman, Joanne Tatham & Tom O'Sullivan, John Gillis & Aline Bouvy,
Benedict Drew, Peter Rockmount, Mark Jackson, John Cussans & Roberto Peyre, Pil & Galia Kollectiv, Neil Chapman & Ola Sahl, David Burrows & Simon O'Sullivan.

Selected II ::::::more details:::::

Nominated by the artists shortlisted for the Jarman Award 2011, Selected brings together some of the best emerging film and video artists from the UK in a dazzling, diverse programme of new artists’ moving image.

The Map is the Territory.
Opening night: 6-9pm Friday 17th February. 18th Feb - 31st March.

New work for Banner Repeater from Benedict Drew: 'Notes on the Dumb Terminal' in an exhibition with Tim Head: 'Beauty and the Beast' and Christopher Rawcliffe: 'Edition of 1'.

Propeller is Chisenhale's Gallery Youth Forum for creative young people aged 15-20.

Launch and exhibition of: PIGDOGANDMONKEYFESTOS
Opening night: 12th November 6-9pm. 12th November - 27th November.

"Racing around a fireball is a blob of filth on which ladies stockings are sold and Gauguins prized, truly a most deplorable business..." Walter Serner, 1918.

PIGDOGANDMONKEYFESTOS has been conceived as a collection of contemporary artists manifestos. Celebrating the stupidity of declaring your intentions to the world with the hope of changing it, PIGDOGANDMONKEYFESTOS will be a tragi-comedy of baroque minimalist clownery, grandiose and ill conceived in extreme.

Like an over stuffed letterbox at election time, PIGDOGANDMONKEYFESTOSembraces all the half-baked ideas, dead ends and prejudiced rants that make artists’ manifestos wondrous works in themselves. Accepting the paucity of the written word, images made in the spirit of the manifesto will also be included in this landfill of a publication.

Edition 1, contributions from: Martin Erik Andersen, Patricia Ellis, Stewart Home, Ami Clarke, Mathieu Beausejour, Sarah Lucas, A.S.P., Pat Rock, Mark Beasley, Clunie Reid, David Blandy, Simon Fujiwara, Jessica Voorsanger, Cedar Lewisohn , Tanja Ritterbex, Shaun Doyle and Mally Mallinson, Dean Kenning, Benedict Drew, Colin Lowe, Mark Pearson, Shane Bradford, Jennet Thomas. Compiled by Shaun Doyle and Mally Mallinson.

Showing throughout the exhibition: "Sludge Manifesto" by Benedict Drew, video dur: 1.28 min.

The publication:PIGDOGANDMONKEYFESTOS will be available for free, throughout the exhibition at Banner Repeater.

Saturday 12 November : 7.30 pm — 9 pm . Curtis Mayfield House, Newcastle upon Tyne
Benedict Drew & Rhodri Davies, Cara Tolmie, Peter Todd

Episode 1: Talking Objects in Space : Broadcast LIVE at 8pm Saturday 24th September Nathan Budzinski Benedict Drew, Benedictions (Patricia Lennox-Boyd and Jamie Stevens featuring Jeremy Glogan, Steve Kado and Morag Keil) Narrated by: Saul Reichlin With an introduction performed by: Robert Carter, Tim Ivison, Andrew Kerton, Leslie Kulesh, Huw Lemmey, Michael Oswell, Eddie Peake, Francesco Pedraglio, Heather Phillipson, Julia Tcharfas, Lorenzo Tebano, Jess Wiesner and Charlie Woolley The series can be watched as part of the live studio audience or via the website www.autoitaliasoutheast.org

ON THE UPGRADE contains new commissioned printed works by PATRICK COYLE, BENEDICT DREW, JAMIE GEORGE, TAMARIN NORWOOD, DAMIEN ROACH and DAVID RULE, each of which has been conceived as an extension of the work previously produced for the website.

Private View Friday 8th July 6.30-9.30pm
Exhibition runs until Sunday 31st July
Gallery open 12-6pm Thursday - Sunday

Gallery 1
Benedict Drew
Within a specifically constructed cinema space Benedict Drew continues his interrogation of the mechanics of film, video, and music production re-appropriating their elemental components.

Gallery 2
Joshua Bilton
Through documented action Joshua Bilton sets out to question how we perceive and communicate a complex set of codes and structures of measurement within social-political history.

Gallery 3
Dean Kenning
Leftover body parts create the horror soundtrack to their own absent B- movie.

Gallery 4
Gibson/Martelli (igloo)
Inspired by the artists' travels to the snow-driven mountains of the Canadian Rockies, VISITOR comprises a full-scale replica of a trappers cabin housing an interactive virtual environment.

How I Failed To Make Man
36 pages, softcover, 190 x 190 mm
edition of 100, numbered

I am very pleased to anounce the publication of the photographic work How I Failed To Make Man. The book is published by merkske and available from there website. There will be a launch for it in the near future