Use your Imagination : (piece in a group show by the creative groups, Highgate Centre : Camden and Islington Foundation Trust ) - The Highgate Centre, Kentish Town, London ( October ) and then South Wing, St Pancras Hospital, London ( November ) ; Swiss Cottage Library, London ( December to January ) ; Belsize Park Library, London ( February to March ) : 2008.

The Highgate Centre is a long standing day centre for people with mental health difficulties in Camden. It is part of the services provided by the Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust to people within the Borough of Camden.

This is an exhibition of artwork by members of the creative groups that are part of the centres program, convened by Maurizia Toovey ( S.R.A.T.) and Ben Guiver ( R.N.M.H. ). Work featured includes that of artists who have previously exhibited successfully, for example Tony Rogan, in his and Adetayo Adefioyes exhibition at the Conference Centre, St Pancras, in 2007.

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Work in Process
The Spence Caf, Church Street, Stoke Newington, London
03/12/07 to 04/01/08
A small exhibition of old and new work in this cosy venue: see

http://www.flickr.com/photos/benreviug/2088719403/

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Showoff Exhibition group show : County Hall White Space, London
11/12 August 2007:
A group show curating 16 artists work, including Adam Koukoudakis, Craig Carpenter, Alex Scaglia, Bee Hale, Rough, Timid, Marcus Farnworth, Jon Hall, Neil Juggins, Angus Kerr, Rita Soromenhoangus, Geoffrey Wilson-Harrington, Niel Woodman.

http://www.myspace.com/showoffexhibition

and

http://www.flickr.com/photos/benreviug/sets/72157601484820973/

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2006/7: Seduction : Institute of Psychiatry Gallery, De Crespigny Park, Camberwell.

10 November 2006 to 19 January 2007

Ben Guiver will be exhibiting Seduction at the Institute of Psychiatry Gallery from Friday 10th November. A Private view will be held on Thursday 9th November 6-8pm.

The media consumes everything, every last shock effect/reality effect thrown up by the avante garde. Depth and meaning are displaced in favour of the fascination of the surface. Desire real, dramatic relations between human agents is superseded by

Seduction ,

charm (in the true, magical sense of the word). Instead of resistance through subjectivity (which, whether its in the name of justice, autonomy, or desire, he sees as the last ditch attempt to shore up an evanescent power), Baudrillard proposes resistance through becoming an object. Through succumbing to the vertigo of the mass media, a sense of dizziness, with which you cant do anything. Its suicidal, but in a good wayThere is an art of disappearing, a way of modulating it and making it into a state of grace.
(Forget Baudrillard, by Sylvere Lotringer and Jean Baudrillard).
Simon Reynolds, Blissed Out, Serpents Tail, London 1990. [ flyer text]

The Gallery promotes the work of artists with links to the Institute of Psychiatrys remit of mental health care and research, with the aim of widening debate and removing the stigmatisation often associated with issues of mental health.

The IoP Gallery supports the rich history of hospitals holding collections relating to health care and the historical benefit such collections bring to the arts and medicine. The IoP Gallery aims to continue this tradition by building a collection of works relating to mental health, through donations from artists.

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2006: Aesthetica Magazine Art Exhibition at the Gateway to the Quarter
1 October - 31 October 2006.

Digital exhibition during October 2006: images projected onto a wall in the quarter in York.

http://www.aestheticamagazine.com/

image: 5. cop car drive by

Aesthetica Magazine is the UKs cultural arts magazine that covers new writing, art, music and film. Aesthetica Magazine is committed to innovation and excellence in the arts.
This is the first Aesthetica Magazine art exhibition, which is featured at the Gateway to the Quarter, York, UK. The Gateway to the Quarter was set up as a permanent public art exhibition, which uses light and digital images as a medium to engage with the City and invites viewers to experience art outside of the gallery and transforms it into a part of everyday life.
The exhibition takes place on two projector screens on Finkle Street. There are 60 UK and international artists partaking in this exhibition. The images portrayed in this exhibition were selected by the Aesthetica team based on their modern feel and reflection of contemporary times. They are a reflection of todays consciousness.

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2006: A Sense of Scale, The Foundry, Old Street, London 04/04/06 to 16/04/06.

An exhibition of painting and photography, with radio broadcast on Resonance 104.4 fm at 7pm on the 12th April 2006.
Offering up visual records of linkages between apparently disparate elements, micro and macro politic.
The broadcast on the 12th April, at 7pm, on Resonance 104.4 fm ( web streamed worldwide ) is conceptually linked to the exhibition. It compiles, and possibly remixes, texts by the authors Francois Roustang, Will Self, Hakim Bey, Adam Phillips and Jean Baudrillard.

http://www.archive.org/details/RadioSermonettes

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05 : OUT OF MY HEAD, Conference Centre, St Pancras Hospital, Kings Cross.
January 17 to March 13 2005

A mixed media exhibition of painting and photography with sound installation. This is the first of three solo exhibitions showcasing the work of artists working for service user art groups in the Camden and Islington Mental Health and Social Care Trust.

Interviewed by Mick Hobbs (Life and Living, Resonance) and Howard Jaques (The Bermuda Triangle, Resonance), this broadcast on Life and Living March 2005.. Guest djd on The Bermuda Triangle subsequent to invite from Howard, on Thursday, 24 February 2005

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2004: High-Low Exhibition, Waterlow Unit, Whittington Hospital, Highgate Hill, Islington. Group exhibition by staff and patients commemorating the closure of the Waterlow Unit, the psychiatric unit for the London Borough of Islington.

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Press features

Bens work has been featured in Creative Week, The Guardian ( Saturday Op-Art slot - 25/03/06 - and an article in media supplement - 10/04/06 ), The Royal Photographic Society Journal, and The Wire. Websites such as the West African Doctors and Healthcare Professionals Network, and web blogs such as Mind hacks, have also picked up on his work.

Web prescence:

www.radio-sermonettes.com /
http://www.sendspace.com/file/3xd3ct

www.flickr.com/photos/benreviug

www.artangel-images.com

http://benguiver.blogspot.com/

http://thefaithofgraffiti.blogspot.com/

http://www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/yourgallery/artist_profile/Ben+Guiver/42373.html

http://www.myspace.com/thedrugsuburbnettles

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Education

MA Art Therapy : University of Hertfordshire : 2008 -

BA Fine Art : Central St Martins school of art : 2007 -

Honorary Lecturer, Middlesex University, School of Health and Social Sciences: 2004.

Institute of Group Analysis : Advanced year in Group Analysis 2004-5

Introductory course in Group Analysis 2003-4

Arbours Association : Introductory Course in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy 1998

Philadelphia Association : Introductory Course in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy 1995-6

Middlesex University / Archway College of Health Studies: Diploma in Mental Health Nursing

Leeds University : BA (Hons) in Government and Politics, with some philosophy. II.ii.


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