Ben Pearce

Ben Pearce

Ben Pearce completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts majoring in Sculpture at Wanganui Quay School of Fine Arts in 2003. Exhibiting regularly in New Zealand, Pearce has work held in the public collection of the Sargeant Gallery, Whanganui, and in prominent private collections throughout New Zealand, Australia, Germany, the UK, and the USA. He is featured in Warwick Brown’s book Seen this Century, featuring 100 contemporary New Zealand artists.

Pearce’s work has been exhibited at City Gallery Wellington, Te Uru Auckland, Suter Art Gallery Nelson, Tauranga Art Gallery, MTG Hawke’s Bay Napier, and Hastings City Art Gallery. In 2022, he was the inaugural recipient of the $30,000 ARA Art Award in Hawke’s Bay, and in the same year he created Paper Pals Aotearoa — a large-scale four-plinth public commission for the Wellington Sculpture Trust, exhibited in the forecourt of Te Papa Tongarewa, Wellington.