Septemeber 2024, Group Show
When it Rains Ch.3
Represented by FUTURES at UNSEEN, Amsterdam
July 2024, Solo Show/Residency
When it Rains Ch.2
‘Unfolding Futures’, Futures Hub Amsterdam
June 2024, KABK Grad Show
When it Rains Ch.1
Royal Academy of Art, The Hague
April 2024, Public Reading
Mnemotope 004
Bog Bodies Press, Eindhoven
March 2024, Group Show
Can Dormant Seeds Bloom?
‘Fragments in Transit’, Beetroot Studios, Thessaloniki
Nov 2023, Group Show
Nooderlicht Photo Festival
Groningen
June 2023, Group Show
Everything That Melts is About to Blend
MAPS, De Helena, The Hague
Nov 2022, Group Show
Reservoir
‘Yolun Dişinda’, Darağaç, Izmir
May 2022, Solo Show
Natura
Soearth Projects, Kildare
Mar 2019, Group Show June 2023
DUPA End of Year
Copper House Gallery, Dublin
Apr 2024
Mnemotope 004
Bog Bodies Press, Eindhoven
Mar 2024
Weather Diaires
Trigger FOMU, Antwerp
Mar 2019
Ireland’s Post Polio Survivors
University Times Magazine, Dublin
July 2024
FUTURES HUB
Unfolding Futures Summer Residency, Amserdam
Jan 2022
ZONE Residency
Borsec, Romania
June 2023
Student Development Programme
Canon, Remote
May 2022 Mar 2021
Agillity Award
Arts Council Ireland
Mar 2021
Belfast Photo Festival
Shortlisted
Aug 2022 - 2024
Master’s Photography & Society
Royal Academy of Art the Hague, Netherlands
Sep 2016 - 2020
Bachelor’s Zoology
Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
Aug 2024
Best of Grad 2024
Metropolis M Magazine, Utrecht
mail: photo@benjmorrison.com
Public Moments
Writing
Residencies
Grants & Awards
Education
Press
- Group Show ‘I Wonder Where it Lands’
- at KABK Graduation Show
June/July 2024
Supervised by
Sara Blokland, Andrea Stultiens and Tom Viaene
Exhibition Text
I smell the rain, underneath the lime tree, sun on my neck, the bees in summer, frozen stream, breath steaming, black shallow night, hands grasping, a garden forgotten, body spinning, the wind pulling, eyes squinting, light of day cresting, dipping, resting.
The weather is our grand theatrical stage for the performance of our everyday routines. To events that mark us, to those that enter the realm of forgetting. The weather is unceasingly there, in our collective and individual memory, and in the incessant traces it leaves on body and land alike. Seeking Haraway’s ‘objective perception through partial perspective’, my grandmother’s weather diary presented itself as a novel opportunity to rethink the act of looking and recording for oneself. Through a diary dialogue spanning sixty four years between my grandmother and I, When it rains aims to reinforce the intimate connection between ways of looking and ways of being. Working through found material, text, audio and moving imagery this work embraces nostalgia and curiosity as a space of active reconnection.
This work was created as part of my two year Master’s project for the MA in Photography & Society (MAPS) at the Royal Academy of Art the Hague (KABK).