About Ben:

Ben, (28) trained as an EMI-unit assistant before completing studies at the Dublin School of Architecture, DIT & the LTH, Lund University, Sweden in Architecture gaining a B'Arch & M'Arch (Hons).  He also attended Central St. Martins College of Fine Art, London & the University of Ulster; completing an Adv Dip MP, trained as a Passive-House assessor (PHPP) and is currently taking a masters in sustainable urbanism whilst working as an agrarian researcher in Hertfordshire.  He is an associate of the Royal Institute of Architecture Ireland & is a professional member of the Sculptors' Society of Ireland. 

His artworks have been exhibited at the Architecture Association; Bond Street, New York, The Festival of World Cultures; The Siena Art Institute, Italy; Leitrim Sculpture Centre, Farmleigh House & The Blue Wall.  These exhibitions have ranged from drawings, acrylics & fabrics, sculpture, kirigami & film.  Works are held in permanent collections in New York (medical drawings) and privately in Europe.

He has previously been employed at award-winning Irish architecture practices (ODOS, CPA) and in the public sector at UNESCO National Monuments, Farmleigh House, Dublin Castle, Castletown House & Áras an Uachtaráin (Presidential Palace), radio broadcasting and cross-community arts. His interests are Anglo-Irish country houses & their collections, Scandanavian design, historic portraiture, Irish Revivalist poetry and horticulture. 

Otherwise he's angling in Ireland, assisting at the family interior design firm, attacking the garden, stuck on a train or in his wellingtons out on Wimbledon Common.