Artist | Maker

Ben Tarento is an interdisciplinary artist and maker with a sculptural and installation based practice. Working with diverse materials including metal and glass, concrete, reclaimed plastics and digital formats, his practice spans exhibitions, public art, private commissions and social projects which explore art, earth sciences and the tensions between our built and natural environment.

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Public Art /

Commissions

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Flux
Flux

Part of on ongoing series titled Blue Space, Flux was captured during a residency at the Sa Taronja Cultural Association, Andratx, Majorca, Spain and first shown in Gertrude Street, Fitzroy.

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Blue Hole
Blue Hole

Blue Hole is an ongoing work that projects a blue water space onto urban pavements highlighting proximity to and human impact on our emptying ocean spaces. It explores our engagement with urban spaces and tests our viewing habits by bending our understanding of depth, space and time.

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T I M E L A P S E D
T I M E L A P S E D

Timelapsed was a public work positioned along the Upfield train line/bike trail, Coburg between Anstey and Moreland stations which explored the ongoing threat to the reefs of our planet.

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Exhibitions

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In Focus, Memory Place
In Focus, Memory Place

Exhibiting artists: ShengYang Zhu, Noah Spivak, Nanou Dupuis, Angela Louise Powell, David Mutch, Natasha Johns-Messenger, Ben Taranto, Jake Treacy, Aaron Christopher Rees, Ria Green, Uri Auerbach, Darcy Smith, James Murnane and Vivian Cooper Smith

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Subterranean Foul
Subterranean Foul

A collaborative work with Cherie Winter

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Noel Counihan Commemorative Award
Noel Counihan Commemorative Award

The majority of the excess heat generated by the last 250 or so years of fossil fuel emissions is absorbed by the Earth's oceans. When coral is subjected to extreme localised temperature increases, it enters a survival phase and engages a kind of sunscreen layer in an effort to protect itself from the warmer than usual water (above around 32 degrees celsius).

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Sinker (Cuttlefish), 2014

Bronze

Images courtesy of the artist and Christian Capurro

Art Award 2014: Art Concerning Environment

Scope Galleries, Warrnambool, Vic, Australia

Private collection

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