Not knowing whether to believe their gut, Denny Hamlin, or their own lyin’ eyes, NASCAR officials went to the data following Chase’s rude retaliation upon Hamlin at Charlotte last Monday. This is actual intelligence, the technical type, and while it most recently led to Chase Elliott’s one-race suspension, it failed to do the same to Austin Cindric, which suggests there’s still some gray areas to whatever our gray matter generates. On the bright side, at least this isn’t artificial intelligence crowding into our lives and threatening upheaval. In addition to exhibiting at the prestigious Mall Galleries in London, Ben was delighted to be awarded the prestigious Cityscape Prize for his artworks.Watch Video: Daytona Motor Mouths Episode 13: Hey, it was better than golf! His works were selected from a record breaking number of applications close to 7500 entries. In November, two of Ben’s works were chosen for display as part of the 2022 ING Discerning Eye exhibition. It was a real honour for Ben to win this prestigious award in his home city. Entry was open to all artists working in any medium who live, work, study or were born in Salford. This biennial exhibition was on display for 3 months in the stunning North Gallery. Ben was awarded First Prize at The Open exhibition held at Salford Museum and Art Gallery in September 2022. The year 2022 was particularly successful for Ben Ark. This in turn led to a selective invitation, open only to artists who have previously won an award during the 10 years the New Light Art prize has been running to take part in ‘Northern Lights – New Light, a ten year retrospective’ in March 2022. His artworks were well received by exhibition attendees, who voted for him to win the peoples choice award. Ben was both happy and humbled to have been successfully shortlisted from over 2,000 applicants in the exhibition’s tenth anniversary year on his first time of applying. The exhibition toured the country during 20. Lowry and The Wales Contemporary, held in Pembrokeshire during 2020.īen’s work has featured in many national exhibitions including as part of the New Light Art Prize which celebrates the best in contemporary northern art. His work has featured in the “Days Like These” exhibition held at the Lowry Art Gallery in Salford sitting alongside the work of other Salford artists including L.S. Most pieces are created using acrylic paint, watercolour, ink, digital mixed media collage (merging hand painted areas and elements of digital photographs), pigment prints, resins, gels and pastes on wooden art panels. The creation of his artwork uses traditional painting techniques alongside technology. Speaking through his work, he aims to continue a conversation that other artists began and encourage the viewer to take pleasure in and undertake a deeper appreciation of the beauty of everyday life. There is a deeper statement being made about society’s regular ability to ignore the breath-taking beauty of the world around it. Whilst his work is often highly representational, made for visual appeal, he aims to encourage thought about the rich and varied life of a city and stimulate conversation about how we exist within, alongside and sometimes in the face of, a landscape and the secrets that it holds. He uses a balance of detail, symmetry and movement to create artworks largely featuring contemporary landscapes and urban culture in the North West of England. Ben Ark – Mixed Media Artist based in Salfordīen’s style deliberately slips from precise photorealistic detail to less defined washes of colour.
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