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Contemporary Art Practice (MA)

Ben Sargent

A beige sculptural object comprising of two circular shapes and a curved handle.

Ben Sargent (b. 1997) is an artist, writer and researcher from Exeter, based in London. His work occupies the blurred space between the digital and physical, utilising virtual space, sculpture, moving image, performance and the written word.


MA Contemporary Art Practice (Critical Practice), Royal College of Art, 2023

BA (Hons) Fine Art, Leeds Arts University, 2019


Recent performances include: Working Hard, Hardly Working at The Ivy House, London and OneThreeSeven (Live) at Tate Modern, London.

Kenneth Armitage Student Sculpture Award (Shortlisted with commendation), 2019.

Degree Details

School of Arts & HumanitiesContemporary Art Practice (MA)Critical PracticeRCA2023 at Truman Brewery

Truman Brewery, F Block, Ground, first and second floors

Artist Ben Sargent sitting in a deckchair on a stage reading a piece of writing from his phone.

Ben Sargent's work examines our era of increasing digitalisation, exploring how we must re-assess our relationship to thing-ness if we are to attempt to understand our position in a rapidly shifting environment. Exploring how the digital is “a fragment of the real world... a thing just like any other – a thing like you and me.”

Sargent makes use of digitally aided processes such as 3D printing to translate AI designed virtual objects into tactile sculptural forms. Illuding to the archival practices of museums and galleries, he creates installations that interweave text and sculpture, blurring the lines between virtual and physical, artefact and commodity, temporal and other-worldly.

Beige sculpture on white background with clear display cube number 6.
[Applause] / It’s alien residue / or passionless dust from some other realm, 2023, 3D printed SLA Resin, spray paint, 21.5 x 11.5 x 1 cm
Pink sculpture on white background with clear display cube number 3.
Leakage / lineless boarders seeping / fluid structure bears a resemblance to something, 2023, 3D printed SLA Resin, spray paint, 20.5 x 23 x 2.5 cm
Beige sculpture on white background with clear display cube number 2.
Scoop / A fluttering flute / Wrapped around pink ears in call centres, 2023, 3D printed SLA Resin, spray paint, 22.5 x 12 x 2 cm
Pink sculpture on white background with clear display cube number 4.
Unstuck / becoming quasi-alive / Chastening my fantasies of a human mastery, 2023, 3D printed SLA Resin, spray paint, 25 x 14 x 2.5 cm
White sculpture on white background with clear display cube number 5.
Pink / Corse surface wrinkles / Shallow groove gives way to soft smoothness, 2023, 3D printed SLA Resin, spray paint, 24.5 x 14.5 x 1.6 cm
Pink wall-mounted sculpture, rectangular with curved sides and square indentations.
spiteful in the nicest sense of the word, 2023, 3D printed SLA Resin, spray paint, 24 x 16 x 3.5 cm
Pink wall-mounted sculpture, rectangular with curved sides and square indentations.
White wall-mounted sculpture, rectangular with three circular buttons in centre.
like a rabbit dazed in the headlights of a car, except the rabbit has a suit of armour, 2023, 3D printed SLA Resin, spray paint, 14.5 x 5 x 2 cm
Grey-purple wall-mounted sculpture, rectangular with three circular buttons at top & abstract markings.
his face punches the air, 2023, 3D printed SLA Resin, spray paint, 12 x 3.5 x 1.5 cm
Pink wall-mounted sculpture, rectangular with two circular buttons in centre.
to pull some magic out of the fire, 2023, 3D printed SLA Resin, spray paint, 14 x 3.5 x 2 cm
Two pink wall-mounted sculpture, rectangular with two circular buttons in centre.
Left: to pull some magic out of the fire, 2023, 3D printed SLA Resin, spray paint, 14 x 3.5 x 2 cm | right: a few tricks up his book, 2023, 3D printed SLA Resin, spray paint, 11.5 x 4 x 2 cm
Cream wall-mounted sculpture, pill-shaped with controls.
if you put me on the fence, 2023, 3D printed SLA Resin, spray paint, 13.5 x 6.5 x 2 cm
Purple wall-mounted sculpture, pill-shaped with controls.
a yard away from being inch-perfect, 2023, 3D printed SLA Resin, spray paint, 15.5 x 5.5 x 2 cm
Artist Ben Sargent performing at Tate Modern.
OneThreeSeven (Live), 2023, Live performance at Tate Modern, London, March 31st, 2023 for Tate Late
A crowd clapping at Tate Modern.
Artist Ben Sargent sitting in a deckchair on a stage reading a piece of writing from his phone.
Working Hard, Hardly Working (Live), 2023, live performance at The Ivy House, Nunhead, April 20th, 2023 for Glimpse003.
A photo of a pint of beer on a stage with a cocktail umbrella in it.
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