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BEN WEBB (1976 \u2013 2014)
<\/strong>Ben Webb exhibited from the age of 19. A self-taught artist, he\u00a0was the youngest NZ artist to have shown in a public gallery and\u00a0to represent NZ in a biennale. He held the Goethe Institut residency in Berlin in 2002 and exhibited at Dunedin Public Art Gallery, Asia Pacific Triennial in\u00a0Brisbane and Visa Gold Finalist Exhibition in 1996; Redfern Gallery Sydney\u00a0 in 1998 and the Noumea Biennial in 1999; Johnathan Smart Gallery in Christchurch \u00a0in 2000\/2001\/2003\/2009; Boquitas Pintadas, Buenos Aires, in\u00a02004\/2010; Nadene Milne Gallery in 2009; Kunstraum Bethanien Berlin in 2010; RH Gallery 2010\/2011\/2012; Sugar Cube Gallery Royal Academy of Art, Stockholm, and Wunderkammer, Auckland, in\u00a02011. \u00a0From 2001 until his death, Webb spent six months of each year in Berlin, where he exhibited his work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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BIBLIOGRAPHY
<\/strong>Gallery de Novo, Dunedin<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 some works still available
Images of\u00a0Ben Webb\u2019s work<\/a>, Ocula
Two images of Webb\u2019s work<\/a>, York Street Gallery, Timaru
Eggleton, David \u2018Glory:\u00a0Studies by Ben Webb<\/a>\u2018, Berlin
Otago Daily Times article<\/a>, by Peter Entwisle, January 2009
Blacklog<\/a>\u00a0Black Magazine blog \u2018Ben Webb Exhibition\u2019, 8 March 2011
Otago Daily Times article<\/a>, \u2018Webb\u2019s Dispassionate Treatment Unusual\u2019 by Peter Entwisle, April 2012
Info on Jonathan Smart Gallery\u00a0website<\/a>, Christchurch
Works in the collection of the\u00a0James Wallace Arts Trust<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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