Ross Bennett is an artist and designer based in Sheffield. His work explores the social life and care that exists around making and playing. Much of Ross’ work is focused on facilitating, the communicating and realising of ideas. Working with groups and individuals creating temporary projects ‘utopias’ that aim to puncture the contemporary reality and imagine new worlds into being.
He has a professional art & design practice working with cultural institutions internationally and has shown work, delivered workshops and designed projects with: Arts Catalyst, Abandon Normal Devices, British Design Council, County Hall Pottery, Portland Inn Project, Milton Keynes Arts Centre, University of the Arts London, The Showroom, Goldsmiths University, Super Slow Way, Rule of Threes, Roskilde Festival, University of Sheffield.
He is currently developing Sheffield Artist Maker Exchange, a community making provision aiming to nurture and inspire a new generation of makers and creative businesses whilst contributing to a sustainable relationship with the things we use.
Weaving waste @ Rosk idle Festival
Festival Waste Rug workshop, Using littery picked up hourly from around the site. Roskilde Festival, Denmark.
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CO-Designing packaging for P igeons
Co-design branding/typography/pizza making workshops with Portland Inn Project, Stoke-On-Trent
Co-design branding/typography/pizza making workshops with Portland Inn Project, Stoke-On-Trent
Co-design branding/typography/pizza making workshops with Portland Inn Project, Stoke-On-Trent
Co-design branding/typography/pizza making workshops with Portland Inn Project, Stoke-On-Trent
Co-design branding/typography/pizza making workshops with Portland Inn Project, Stoke-On-Trent
Co-design branding/typography/pizza making workshops with Portland Inn Project, Stoke-On-Trent
Co-design branding/typography/pizza making workshops with Portland Inn Project, Stoke-On-Trent
Co-design branding/typography/pizza making workshops with Portland Inn Project, Stoke-On-Trent
Co-design branding/typography/pizza making workshops with Portland Inn Project, Stoke-On-Trent
Co-design branding/typography/pizza making workshops with Portland Inn Project, Stoke-On-Trent
Co-design branding/typography/pizza making workshops with Portland Inn Project, Stoke-On-Trent
Co-design branding/typography/pizza making workshops with Portland Inn Project, Stoke-On-Trent
Co-design branding/typography/pizza making workshops with Portland Inn Project, Stoke-On-Trent
Co-design branding/typography/pizza making workshops with Portland Inn Project, Stoke-On-Trent
Co-design branding/typography/pizza making workshops with Portland Inn Project, Stoke-On-Trent
Co-design branding/typography/pizza making workshops with Portland Inn Project, Stoke-On-Trent
Co-design branding/typography/pizza making workshops with Portland Inn Project, Stoke-On-Trent
Co-design branding/typography/pizza making workshops with Portland Inn Project, Stoke-On-Trent
Co-design branding/typography/pizza making workshops with Portland Inn Project, Stoke-On-Trent
Co-design branding/typography/pizza making workshops with Portland Inn Project, Stoke-On-Trent
Co-design branding/typography/pizza making workshops with Portland Inn Project, Stoke-On-Trent
Co-design branding/typography/pizza making workshops with Portland Inn Project, Stoke-On-Trent
Co-design branding/typography/pizza making workshops with Portland Inn Project, Stoke-On-Trent
Co-design branding/typography/pizza making workshops with Portland Inn Project, Stoke-On-Trent
Co-design branding/typography/pizza making workshops with Portland Inn Project, Stoke-On-Trent
Co-design branding/typography/pizza making workshops with Portland Inn Project, Stoke-On-Trent
Co-design branding/typography/pizza making workshops with Portland Inn Project, Stoke-On-Trent
Co-design branding/typography/pizza making workshops with Portland Inn Project, Stoke-On-Trent
Offcut/waste-Games
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Offcuts 1. A game of 2D-3D sort of cross wires game made from workshop offcuts and packaging/set design scraps. For Pick Me Up Festival. Somerset House.
Offcuts. Brutalist building game made from workshop offcuts. For British Design Council.
Floaty laboratory for canal side material exploration
Weaving, cooking, firing, something something aboard the floating classroom. Wet-Lab. Commissioned by Super Slow Way. Lancashire.
Weaving, cooking, firing, something something aboard the floating classroom. Wet-Lab. Commissioned by Super Slow Way. Lancashire.
Weaving, cooking, firing, something something aboard the floating classroom. Wet-Lab. Commissioned by Super Slow Way. Lancashire.
Weaving, cooking, firing, something something aboard the floating classroom. Wet-Lab. Commissioned by Super Slow Way. Lancashire.
Weaving, cooking, firing, something something aboard the floating classroom. Wet-Lab. Commissioned by Super Slow Way. Lancashire.
Weaving, cooking, firing, something something aboard the floating classroom. Wet-Lab. Commissioned by Super Slow Way. Lancashire.
Weaving, cooking, firing, something something aboard the floating classroom. Wet-Lab. Commissioned by Super Slow Way. Lancashire.
Weaving, cooking, firing, something something aboard the floating classroom. Wet-Lab. Commissioned by Super Slow Way. Lancashire.
Weaving, cooking, firing, something something aboard the floating classroom. Wet-Lab. Commissioned by Super Slow Way. Lancashire.
Weaving, cooking, firing, something something aboard the floating classroom. Wet-Lab. Commissioned by Super Slow Way. Lancashire.
Weaving, cooking, firing, something something aboard the floating classroom. Wet-Lab. Commissioned by Super Slow Way. Lancashire.
Weaving, cooking, firing, something something aboard the floating classroom. Wet-Lab. Commissioned by Super Slow Way. Lancashire.
Weaving, cooking, firing, something something aboard the floating classroom. Wet-Lab. Commissioned by Super Slow Way. Lancashire.
Making A Feast
Summer workshops making every aspect of a feast, plates, experimental cutlery, and table cloths.