About us
Dr Roter Su
Matthew Benington
Katy Hammond
Matthew Benington is an artist specialising in printmaking and photography, working with themes of collective memory, gender, and land ownership. Notable projects include Hide: The Apocryphal Archive, an immersive folly lined with etchings of his own displaced family members and Hide, and an archive within the permanent collection of Tremenheere sculpture garden. Ideas about ruination, public monuments, and the repurposing of former industrial spaces inform his curatorial work with Unstable Monuments, ACE, Truro, 2016 and Unstable Monuments Bristol, a residency and exhibition in 2022. Matthew lives in Norwich and is Senior Academic working with BA Fine Art Year 2 at Norwich University of the Arts.
SOLO SHOWS
2024: Almost Nothing But Blue Ground, Old Big School Gallery, Tonbridge, (collaboration with Tom Pope)
2024: Almost Nothing But Blue Ground, Performative Lecture, Natural History Museum, (collaboration with Tom Pope)
2024: Almost Nothing But Blue Ground, Exhibition, Original Projects, Great Yarmouth (collaboration with Tom Pope)
2024: Almost Nothing But Blue Ground, Forma Arts and Media, Exhibition, London (collaboration with Tom Pope)
2023: Almost Nothing But Blue Ground, Performative Lecture, Linnean Society, London (collaboration with Tom Pope)
2023: Almost Nothing But Blue Ground, East Gallery Norwich (collaboration with Tom Pope)
2018: Building Days, Art Lacuna, London
2016: BURN, the eyes that saw the light melted out of sheer ecstasy, Cologne, Germany Gold + Beton Gallery
2015: New Expressions 3 artist in residence at Penryn Museum, Cornwall
2014: Open Castle 02, solo show, Mow Cop Castle, Staffordshire, National Trust
2014: Hide, Kedleston Walk ex council flat roof top and flat, Bethnal green
2012: Matthew Benington, The Little Gallery, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
GROUP SHOWS
2022: Unstable Monuments, Bristol. Residency and exhibition curated in Bridewell Street Magistrates Court and Jail, Matthew Benington and Jesse Leroy Smith.
2018: WCHTC; Norwich Castle Museum residency and exhibition.
2016: The Masters, Bankside Gallery, London
2016: Inland Arts Festival, Redruth, Cornwall.
2015: Unstable Monuments, Truro. Curated by Matthew Benington and Jesse Leroy Smith with the support of Arts Council England.
2015: 30 for 30, National Theatre, London
2014: Fete Worse than Death, Red Gallery Rivington Street
2014: Artopia, This Wild West, London.
2014: Hanmi Gallery, Breathing space, Maple Street, London
2013: Suspended Sentence, Turners Warehouse, Penzance
2012: Silence and I, Hanmi Gallery, Maple Street London
2012: Retrospective archaeology of a Future Disaster which Crack(ed)s the present. Curator. Stanley Picker Gallery Project space, Kingston.
2012: Headhunted,‘Bucca Gallery, Newlyn
2012: London Print Fair, Royal Academy. Being Present, Matt Benington, Maddox Arts, London
2012: Christies ‘Multiplied’ Fair, South Kensington
2012: Royal College of Art Degree Show, Battersea, Howie Street
2011: The Second Exhibition, C.G Project Space, Bermondsey, London
2011: The Dark Rooms, CAST institute, Passmore Edwards building, Helston
2011: RCA Secret, Royal College of Art, London
2011: Crown Point Press Exhibition, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
2011: Saatchi Art Paris, Grand Palais, Paris
2010: Midas Award, Newlyn Gallery, Penzance
2010: Print! The Exchange Gallery, Jesse Leroy Smith, Penzance
2010: Saatchi New Sensations, House of the Nobleman. Cornwall Terrace, London
2010: BA Fine Art Degree Show, University College Falmouth
2009: Royal West of England Academy, Summer show
2009: Encore, The Royal West of England Academy, Bristol.
AWARDS, TALKS & RESIDENCIES
2018: Gathered fabricated for Tremmenheere Sculpture Park
2016: Spike Island, Bristol, artist talk
2014-2015: New Expressions 3 Artist in Residence, Penryn Museum
2014: Andrew Brownsword exhibition Prize, Victoria Art Gallery Bath
2012-2013: Stanley Picker Fellowship
2012: Casual-Ties RCA publication
2012: MA in Fine Art Printmaking, Royal College of Art
2010: Midas Award
2010: Scalpel magazine. Text, Rebecca Wilson, Saatchi Gallery Associate director.
2010: BA (Hons) Fine Art, University College Falmouth, First Class
2008: Harry Walker RWA Young Artist Prize, Victoria Art Gallery, Bath
2007: Oliver McMillan Memorial Prize.
Research Excellence Framework 2022 portfolio
https://nua.repository.guildhe.ac.uk/id/eprint/17346/1/MB-01.pdf
Katy Hammond is a photographic artist and academic currently working as a lecturer at Norwich University of the Arts on the photography degree. Having worked in the photographic industry on national and international commercial shoots as both a first assistant and a freelance photographer, her personal practice now focuses on using alternative photographic techniques to explore ideas around narrative and the materiality of the image, her cyanotypes winning the Photofusion Select bursary award. She presented her paper 'the Anthropocentric gaze and animal as spectacle' at the Animal Gaze Constructed symposium, with imagery selected for the accompanying exhibition. Work from her project Flux was selected for ‘Cosmos’, an exhibition curated by The Lumen Collective and displayed at Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre as part of its arts programme that focuses on bringing art in to hospital spaces. Images from this same project have also been exhibited at Photofusion in London and more recently published in Pattern and Chaos in Art, Science and Everyday life by Intellect books.
2024: ‘Flux’ published in Pattern and Chaos in Art, Science and Everyday Life, Horton, S. and Mitchell, V. (eds.) UK: Intellect.
2023/24: Image from 'Sehnsucht' shown in ‘Home’ group show, Shutter Hub, Cambridge University, Cambridge
2020: Selected works, Anthropocentric Gaze Constructed symposium exhibition, London Metropolitan University, London
2020: ‘The Anthropocentric gaze and the animal as spectacle’ paper, presented at the Anthropocentric Gaze Constructed symposium, London Metropolitan University, London
2019: ‘Sehnsucht’, Shutter Hub ‘Home’ exhibition, in conjunction with Crisis, Shelter Cymru and Toiletries Amnesty
2019: ‘Flux’ exhibited at Ovalo Gallery group show, Mexico
2019: ‘Cosmos’ group show, Lumen Collective, Nuffield Orthopaedic Hospital
2018: Photofusion, Salon/18, London
2017: Photofusion, Salon/17, London
2017: Artist Talk, Photofusion, London
2017: Select/17 group exhibition, Photofusion, London
2016: Photofusion Select/17 Bursary award winner
2016: Photofusion Salon/16, London
2016: In the Forest of Things, MA show, LCC, London
2015: Artist Talk, The Forum, Norwich
2015: Hidden in Plain Sight group exhibition, The Gallery, Norwich
2014: Spider awards (honourable mention)
2013: International Photography Awards (honourable mention)
2013: AOP Open Awards, London
Dr Roter Su is a Taiwanese filmmaker, documentarian and academic. His interests of cultural practice in everyday life determines his research motivations. He not only studies the participant's representations through the lenses of Postcolonialism and Deleuzian concepts, but also observes and documents their lives through the changes, examining the impact of Postmodernism in the modern society. This “micro to macro” approach leads him to collaboration and participation in numerous research projects, ranging from cultural identity, community practices, impact of values in athletes’ surroundings, influences of environment to mental health issues and significance of changing landscapes. Roter currently resides in Norwich and is a subject lead of MA Film course, as well as a lecturer of BA Film and Moving Image Production at Norwich University of the Arts.
2023–2024: InverLight, a collaborative research project between university academics (Norwich University of the Arts), commissioned artists and a local charity (Hungate Medieval Art).
2020–2024: Stories They Tell – a documentary about the impacts of value in family history, childhood bringing, and life journey. Part of IValue project, associated with Clean Sport Alliance, funded by IOC (International Olympic Committee) 2023.
2021–2024: Collaboration with Hospital Rooms, for the projects of The Hub at Northside House 2022 and the project of Northside House 2021, Norwich.
2020–2022: Clean Sport Alliance, and a multi-university research project, internationally. In charging as a director for case-study short films and live events for RESPECT-P project
2018–2021: Clean Sport Alliance, and a multi-university research project, internationally. In charging as a director for case-study short films and live events for RESPECT project.
2018–2022: Collaborated with United in Hammersmith & Fulham charity, with Hammersmith United Charity, Dr Edwards & Bishop King’s Fulham Charity. This project is a community practice, me being in charging as a director for a series of case-study short documentary.
2018–2019: Agents of Change – a collaboration project with Imperial College and Hammersmith United Charity. Me being in charging as a director for a case-study short documentary and interacting with participants of the project.
2016–2022: Research of Safe You and Safe You Plus is an international research project across five partner universities and their host countries (Greece, Cyprus, Germany, Italy and the UK). Co-funded by Erasmus+ Programme of the EU, the project is about PAES (Performance and Appearance Enhancing Substances) use on amateur and professional athletes.
2018–2024: Director of a documentary: Be Your Own Competition – Annie Zita; a collaborative project with Prof Andrea Petroczi, Kingston University and Etienne Duval, NewTownVision.
2012–2017 PhD research – Floating Home: A Journey of Taiwanese Identity in the UK. This research contains a feature length documentary: Floating Home, and a documentary series with 7 episodes: Floating Home documentary series.