Benjamin Armstrong

Benjamin Armstrong creates glass and wax sculptures that slide between the homely and the uncanny. Born in Melbourne in 1975, Armstrong completed a BFA from the Victorian college of the arts in Melbourne, Australia in 1996. He currently lives and works in Melbourne. 
 
Click to the read the essay ‘Contact Images’ by Quentin Sprague accompanying Armstrong’s 2020 Under the Southern Sky series.
 
Read Benjamin Armstrong ‘Traverse’ essay by Tony Magnusson 

Watch Benjamin Armstrong ‘Traverse’ 2025 on Vimeo  

Exhibitions

Traverse
March 22, 2025 – April 17, 2025

Benjamin Armstrong

Traverse

Holding in careful balance an array of figurative and abstract components crafted from diverse materials, this new group of sculptures gives symbolic and metaphorical expression to traversing – that is, moving across or through – a place, the mind or an idea. The six sculptures are the happy result of Armstrong’s return to the medium […]

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