International graffiti collective founded in Aotearoa in 1996
Benjamin Work is an Auckland-based artist of Tongan (Vava’u) and Scottish heritage. He has a solid grounding in aerosol painting with his initial creative output centred around sub/ pop-cultural influences that emerged from North America in the 1970s – 1980s.
Since then, Benjamin’s bold visual language reference design elements and semiotics particular to Tongan weaponry and culture. His practice extends across a diverse range of projects which include gallery exhibitions, large scale murals, print based media and photography. His work reflects the ‘here and now’ and engages with the current cultural, political and social context of Auckland, Aotearoa.
Work has exhibited in a number of group and solo exhibitions including:
Whenua Fonua 'Enua, Malcolm Smith Gallery, Auckland;
METfriday, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC, USA;
For King and Country, Bergman Gallery, Rarotonga, Cook Islands;