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| CV ACADEMIC TRAINING 2022 Doctor of Philosophy, Monash University, Department of Fine Art, Melbourne. 2016 Graduate Certificate in Arts (Philosophy and Gender Studies), University of Melbourne. 2012 Master of Fine Art, University of Melbourne, Victorian College of the Arts. [HD] 2010 Bachelor of Fine Art (first-class Honours), Sculpture and Spatial Practice, Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne. 2009 Bachelor of Fine Art, Sculpture and Spatial Practice, Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne. RELEVANT PROFESSIONAL ROLES 2025-current Lecturer (ongoing), Monash University: Art, Design and Architecture, Caufield. Lecturer in BFA program: First year Sculpture and ceramics curriculum and delivery; Studio practice delivery; Drawing delivery; Ceramics elective course writing and delivery. 2020-2025 Teaching Associate (casual), Monash University: Art, Design and Architecture, Caufield. Lecturer in first year BFA program: Sculpture curriculum and delivery, Studio practice, Drawing delivery. 2014-21 Teacher (casual) in Sculpture and Studio Practice, Latrobe College of Art and Design, Collingwood. PROFESSIONAL CERTIFICATES Current Working with Children Check 2019 Certificate IV in Training, Assessment and Evaluation (Government required upgrade) 2015 Certificate IV in Training, Assessment and Evaluation SELECTED SOLO PROJECTS 2026 Benthic community flutes, Berninneit Art Gallery, Cowes/Millowl [forthcoming] 2025 Wet lines, solo exhibition and performance at Alta Forma, St Kilda Road. 2023 Benthic Community Flutes Sketch 2 (Snapping and Sandy Ghost Shrimp, Swamp Scrub, Mussel) as part of Figuring Ground curated by Abbra Kotlarcyzk, Grafton Regional Art Gallery, NSW. 2022 Little and Many Intensities, in Mega-phone Mono-Poly organised by Debris Facility Pty. Ltd., Liquid Architecture, Collingwood Yards. Engaging the Interval, PhD exhibition, Monash University MADA Gallery, Caulfield. 2021 Benthic community flutes Sketch 1 (Sandy Ghost Shrimp), Study Space, Brunswick. 2020 Leaves, Hope for Resonance, Youkobo Art Space, Tokyo Japan, 22-26 January. 2018 Beeswax Flutes 2, in 'Why Listen to Plants?' presented by Liquid Architecture/RMIT Design Hub, curated by Danni Zuvela. Beeswax Flutes in Groundwork, curated by Matthew Davis, Living Museum of the West/Melbourne Fringe, Maribyrnong River, September. 2016 Shaking Sculptures in Rooms with a View curated by Emma Collard, The Substation, Newport. 2015 widen, subtract, warm, cool, observe out, Incinerator Gallery, Garden Space, Moonee Ponds. that which enables and constrains what can and cannot be done or said, West Space, Melbourne. dispersing without fragmenting, Library at the Docks, Docklands. 2014 exfoliated by the world, Fort Delta, Melbourne. 2013 goop, turn, sponge, cut, stretch, berry, rain, in Does it Matter? Kings ARI 10-year exhibition curated by Anabelle Lacroix, Kings Artist Run Initiative. enfolding outward, Outward Projects, Launceston. … salt left by the waves, c3 Contemporary Art Space, Abbotsford. 2012 becoming becoming open all-around, VCA Master of Fine Art Graduate Exhibition. open blankets, City of Melbourne Art Program, Young Artist Grant. processual rhythms, The Substation, Newport. SELECTED COLLECTIVE AND COLLABORATIVE WORKS 2025 Wind Throb (Workshop and Sharing), collective sound performance culmination of two-part workshop (lead by Ben Woods as facilitator), Conduction, Footscray. 2023 Lèlè 2 乐乐 2 (Yongping Ren and Ben Woods), Sound and Sculptural Installation, group show Chinese Museum Arts Collective, Testing Grounds, Melbourne. Lèlè 乐乐 (Yongping Ren and Ben Woods), Performance as part of Temporary Position program, Powerhouse Museum, Sydney, May 11. Tributaries (with Geoff Robinson, Ying-Lan Dann, Saskia Schut), Open Natures and Open House Melbourne/City of Melbourne Arts Program, and at Run Artist Run. 2022 Tributary Project, with Geoff Robinson, Ying-Lan Dann, Saskia Schut, Composite Moving Image/BUS, Melbourne. 2014 Better. Faster. Stronger. Melbourne Art Fair Project Space with Sarah crowEST, curated by c3 Contemporary Art Space. PERFORMANCES IN CURATED PROGRAMMES 2025 Sound performance with Ria Soemardjo at Studio Alberto alongside Dylan Martorell and Nathan Gray, August 15. 2024 Sonic response for Anatol Pitt’s exhibition All These Eyes Were Mine at Incinerator Gallery, June 22 Recordings made into EP called Benthic Flutes (Live) 2023 Bubble improvisation as part of Jessie Bullivant’s ATTACHED 1st birthday party and launch, Flippy’s Bar. 2022 Glass flutes performance as part of Durational Situation / Monmar (Geoff Robinson) Front Beach Back Beach (November), Point Nepean. 2021 Beeswax flutes performance in Abbra Kotlarczyk’s exhibition a sonorous draft; a lexicon of windjamming, BLINDSIDE, June-August. 2014 feeling material (second iteration)/A(n) as a way of viewing in SPECIFIC IN-BETWEEN (the choreographic negotiated in six parts) by Helen Grogan, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art. SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2024 MELA, group show curated by Meredith Turnbull, Alta Forma, Melbourne. 2023 Hi Spirit, Hi Matter, group show at Watch This Space ARI, Mparntwe, curated by Beth Sometimes. Figuring Ground curated by Abbra Kotlarcyzk, Grafton Regional Art Gallery, NSW. 2022 Candles and Sticks, curated by Manon van Kouswijk and Allona Goren, 93 George St, Fitzroy. 2021 Darebin Art Prize (finalist), Bundoora Homestead. 2019 You Are Here (with Sarah Bunting), curated by Matthew Davis, Living Museum of the West, November. What does wearing something do? with Meredith Turnbull, as part of All The Jewellery, RMIT Design Hub, April. Queer Economies (as Behn Woods), curated by Abbra Kotlarczyk and Madé Spencer-Castle, Bus Projects/CCP, Jan/Feb. 2017 Visitors, curated by Meredith Turnbull and Manon Van Kouswijk for Radiant Pavilion, at Sarah Scout Presents, August/September. 2015 Form and Flex, curated by Meredith Turnbull, Pieces of Eight. 2014 Dummy, Mailbox ARI, curated by Made Spencer Castle and Alice Mathieu, Melbourne. 2013 Interpreting variable arrangements, curated by Jessie Bullivant and Isadora Vaughan, Stockholm, Sweden. AS CURATOR 2023-current Run Artist Run, co-director (with Yongping Ren) 2015 Feeling Material (exhibition), c3 Contemporary art Space, Melbourne. SELECTED WRITING, CONFERENCE PAPERS AND PUBLICATIONS BY THE ARTIST 2025 Leaching Attitudes: place as a disobedient guide towards a non-productionist ceramics pedagogy (with Terri Bird and Kate Hill), paper presented at ACUADS Conference, December 2. Unimposing Form, essay book published by True Belief/Run Artist Run. 2024 Uvulah, art practice-based research paper presented at Queer Contexts 2024 Conference RMIT November 6-7. Research paper/artist pages for Queeries Journal, Excerpts from Wetland Lovers: Found Chance Text Works for Pipemakers Park. 2022 Forming Resonant Situations: Engaging the Interval in Performance and Installation (PhD, embargoed for forthcoming publication), Monash University Department of Art. 2016 Intimacy’s Spaces and Times: Bergson’s Spirit in Sculptural Processes, research paper, presented in Philosophy and Creative Practice stream at Australian Continental Philosophical Society annual conference, Deakin University. 2015 Sweet Potato, West Space, publication as part of exhibition That which enables and constrains… West Space. haecceities, diary entry, Dancehouse Diary Issue 8: Dance and Ethics, Dancehouse. 2015 Website text for Feeling Material (exhibition), c3 Contemporary Art Space. To Note: Notation Across Disciplines edited by Hannah Mathews. 2013 Feeling Material, research paper, presented in New Materialism panel convened by Barbara Bolt, AAANZ Annual Conference, VCA. 2012 Becoming Becoming Open All-Around (MFA), VCA University of Melbourne. SELECTED AWARDS, PRIZES AND GRANTS 2023 City of Melbourne Presentation Grant (Tributaries) 2021-22 City of Melbourne Creative Development Grant (Tributaries) Darebin Art Prize (Finalist) 2018-22 Postgraduate Research Stipend (PhD) 2015 Creative Victoria - Presentation and Promotion (for c3 Contemporary Art Space) Australia Council for the Arts – ArtStart Grant NAVA Australian Artists’ Grant Incinerator Gallery Solo Project Commission 2012 City of Melbourne Arts Grant - Young Artist Friends of the VCA Award 2011-12 Australian Postgraduate Award (MFA) 2010 Harry Curtis Prize 2008 Perrin Sculpture Foundry Award. RESIDENCIES & MASTERCLASSES/WORKSHOPS 2026 Residency at Berninneit Art Gallery, Cowes/Millowl [forthcoming]. 2025 Residency at Absolute Space Sanho Lab, Tainan, Taiwan. Wind Throb Workshop (as facilitator and organiser), Conduction, Footscray. 2021 Study Space Residency, Brunswick. 2020 BLINDSIDE Artist in Residence 2019-20 Youkobo Art Space Residency, Japan. 2018 Melbourne's Living Museum of the West residency. Diffracting Difference and Identity: Masterclass with Karen Barad, hosted by AusSTS 2017 Performing Arts Forum residency, France. Testing Grounds residency, Melbourne. SELECTED ARTIST TALKS 2025 Artist talk with Yongping Ren, Wuyoushan ARI, Jingdezhen, China. 2021 Darebin Art Prize artist talk, Bundoora Homestead. 2015 C3 talks, Abbotsford Convent. 2013 Artist talk, Critical Animals symposium, with KINGS ARI. SELECTED WRITING ABOUT THE ARTIST 2018 Meredith Turnbull, Jewelry as Excess: Haptic Knowledge and the Artworks of Benjamin Woods, Art Jewelry Forum. 2013 Barbara Bolt, The Athleticism of Imaging: Figuring a Materialist Performativity in ‘On the Verge of Photography: Imaging Beyond Representation’ (1 ed., pp. 123-140) ARTicle Press. |