A self-taught, multidisciplinary artist working across drawing, sculpture, photography, and installation, Benedict Davies makes work that interrogates perception. With formal training in classical music and film, his practice investigates how meaning is constructed, unravelled, and reformed through instability. Using every-day, overlooked materials, he treats failure as both subject and strategy – exploiting fragility, tension, and disruption to keep the work alive. He operates within what he calls limiting equilibrium – a charged state where opposing forces such as structure and improvisation, stillness and motion, presence and absence, hold in unstable balance.

Diagnosed with multiple neurodivergent conditions, including ADHD, Benedict explores the space between personal experience and broader socio-political narratives. His work embraces contradiction, challenges perceptual norms, and pushes against the edges of how we see and make sense of the world. It asks not for answers, but for attention – to the world as it is, not as we assume it to be.

Part-Duchampian prank and part elegy to life in a fug of ADHD, ...some of us are looking at the stars is two mirrored digital photographs of a bleach-stained toilet on an X-ray lightbox. Appearing scientific yet absurd, its meaning exists entirely in the viewer’s gaze. The piece navigates perception, value, and the border between the banal and the sublime, questioning whether seeing the stars or the gutter offers the truest reading of Wilde’s line: “We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”

• ...some of us are looking at the stars, X-ray negative viewer lightbox, 51 x 72 x 13cm, 2024 – £1500
• Flamm x AH Print: ...some of us are looking at the stars ii, 29.7 x 42 cm, 2025 (limited edition of 25) – £75 (unframed)