Benjamin Howe

About

Benjamin Howe, born in 1977 in London, England, is a contemporary Australian artist renowned for his figurative and experimental oil paintings that blend scientific-surrealist imagery, hyper-realism, and reductive aesthetics. His works often feature a muted or monochromatic palette, exploring themes of isolation, loneliness, inconsistencies of memory, personal history, consciousness, dislocation, habitation, and the subjective nature of identity. Howe's process frequently begins with preliminary explorations in sculpture, photography, and film, where he manipulates forms—such as disassembling clay sculptures—to create distorted, symbolic compositions that challenge perceptions of reality.

Scientific-surrealist, hyper-realistic yet reductive, monochromatic with themes of isolation and memory