Benedict Drew is an Artist who works in performance, sound and video. For several years he has been involved in promoting concerts in London such as Audit and currently produces concerts for the London Musicians' Collective . In 1999 he began musical partnership with Ivan Seal in the laptop duo Nish. Nish have had many releases and performed in the U.K. numerous times.Current projects include a collaboration with artist Emma Hart and the trio Portable with Rhodri Davies and Louisa Martin. Benedict has also worked with various improvisers including Tom Chant [as duo Suscete] Angharad Davies, Alistair Leslie, Steve Beresford, Seymour Wright, Rhodri Davies, Mark Wastell and Matt Davis. He has travelled widely performing live video. Benedict has also composed the soundtracks for four films by Emily Richardson, Red Shift (2001) Nocturne (2002)  Aspect (2004) and Petrolia (2005). A CD of these soundtracks was released in September 2004. Radio work includes producing and presenting Instant Radio Meeting and the Kchunk Radio series Resonance FM.

EDUCATION
1996-99 Middlesex University B.A. Fine Art

SELECTED ACTIVITIES:

2008

LUX Presents Live Cinema
To mark the launch of two new publications, Guy Sherwin: Optical Sound Films, a book/DVD LUX presents a night of night of new film performances curated by artist Guy.
Arcola Theatre,London
performance of UNTITLED 4 with Emma Hart

Untitled Colour:
Museam of Applied Arts, Vienna, Austria
performance of Untitled 1 & 2 with Emma Hart

Self-Cancellation:
Beaconsfield. London
Instal. The Arches Glasgow

Mark & John Bain
John Butcher
Michael Colligan
Rhodri Davies
Benedict Drew
Robin Hayward
Gustav Metzger
Lee Patterson
Sarah Washington

Ten experimental sound artists are invited to explore in public the
principles of self-cancellation in sound through conferencing, workshops
and performance in London and Glasgow.

Commissioned by Arika & the London Musicians’ Collective and developed with
Beaconsfield.

2007

Interlace& Ongaku: Shunt space London:

Benedict Drew (laptop)
Louisa Martin (laptop)
Seymour Wright (alto sax)

Sonic Art Network's Expo in Plymouth :

Portable .

Tate Modern Turbine Hall.
Performance of "sine/line" with Sachiko M

Evolution festival, Leeds
Performance of " untitled 1 & untitled 2 with Emma Hart.

Sotto Voce Festival London.
Performance with Portable

International film festival Rotterdam
Performance of " untitled 1 & untitled 2 with Emma Hart.

2006

London Musicians Collective Festival Anual of
Experimental Music. ICA ,London.
Curated and produced 3 day music festival

2:13 Festival
Athens, Greece
performance with Emma Hart

AVP festival
Melbourne Derbyshire . UK
3 perfromances with Keith Rowe, Lee Paterson, Matt Davis and Graham Haliwell

Kill Your Timid Notion
Dundee Contemporary Arts
Two Performances With Emma Hart

Rational Rec.
London
performance with Genital Panic

2005

LMC Festival of Experimental Music London
curated and produced five day music festival

Sound Track London
Audio Visual performance with Emma Hart

Frieze Art Fair London
Audio Artist for Resonance fm

Cyrk London
audio performance with Matt Davis

Petrolia
Sound track for film by Emily Richardson

Kchunk
radio series on resonance fm

12 Bar London  
Audio Performance  with Toshimaru Nakumura

Share New York City
Audio Performance

Jacksons Lane  London
audio performance as part Mark Wastel's
Double Concerto for Contra Bass , Harp and
Laptop Ensemble