Ben Lingard is a London-born artist who currently lives and works in Glasgow.
He graduated from the Glasgow School of Art in 2022 with a degree in Painting & Printmaking. On graduating he was awarded an RSA John Kinross travel scholarship and spent three months living and working in Florence, Italy.
Lingard works across various mediums but always with a strong emphasis on drawing. His practice addresses and brings together a number of interests including psychogeography and the life of the city, the nature of memory, the act of looking, and the role of craft in contemporary art. He is currently researching the mediation of memory through the use of generative ai.
Ben teaches painting and drawing at Leith School of Art. He is currently studying for an MA in Fine Art at Central St Martins in London.