I always knew you were the shape – an essay about the artwork of Guy Benfield

Publication Details Exhibition essay, published online and in gallery, 2017, Minerva Gallery Sydney, 2 pages

Author and/or Editor name/s Rebecca Holborn

Author and/or Editor bio/s Rebecca is Assistant Curator of Art at the Australian War Memorial. She previously worked at the Shrine of Remembrance in Melbourne, following several years working in the UK for key institutions including Art on the Underground, Tate Modern and the Natural History Museum. Her art-writing has been published as catalogue essays and in arts industry press. She has been recipient of several curatorial awards and grants including the Asialink, the Whitechapel / Demergon curatorial residency, and as a young curator for the Melbourne International Arts Festival. Rebecca is a graduate of the MFA Curating at Goldsmiths College.

Year of Publication 2017

Publisher Minerva Gallery, Sydney

Abstract The essay concerns Benfield’s work, as a performance artist, but whose practice is rooted in painting and the conceptual frameworks of advertising.