Bengy Speer
Artspace Artist Advisory Group Member Career development Technical - Audio visual Technical - Build and installation Business Planning Photographing art work Working with galleries Fabrication Printing Equalities and Diversity Working outdoors Working in the public realm Sculpture Digital Installation Photography Illustration Painting Print maker Craft Social Engagement Mixed Media Textile Other Moving Image Art Organisation
I’m an eclectic artist and I derive my work from my lived experiences through trauma and happier times that became part of me. I currently work with materials that people discard and feel can’t be loved again to give them a new lease of life by creating costumed sculptures. All the materials I use are recycled and I often get my materials from Crow Recycling in Coventry including charity shops. Everything I create has a message or meaning behind it. I can pick up an item and can work around it visualising it from the very start and I think that’s why I also work as a production assistant, workshop facilitator and sometimes a photographer. I picked up a camera at a very young age and had a passion to tell a story and that comes out in all I do. So photography is part of my artistic practice as is music, illustration, spoken word, drawing, painting and acting.
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- Socially engaged
- Painting
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- Digital
- Ceramics
- Photography
- Sculpture
- Installation
- Curation
- Mixed media
- Drawing
- Textiles
- Print making
- Other
Multi-disciplinary artist also working with recycled materials.
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- Under represented communities
- Young people
- 5-11 years
- 11-16 years
