projects
VSSL Studio
- was co-founded in 2020 by Benjamin Sebastian & Joseph Morgan Schofield and activated in 2021 with the gallery’s inaugural public programme; ‘Gathering in a Time of Plague’, funded by Arts Council England and co-curated by the galleries founders.
In 2023 VSSL secured its’ second Arts Council England grant to deliver a series of exhibitions by June Lam, Rocío Boliver and Marcin Gawin, curated by Benjamin Sebastian and produced by Ash McNaughton & Mine Kaplangi.
A place of gathering and creation, VSSL is a not-for-profit studio and gallery - a site for artistic production and engagement, dedicated to the holding of contemporary, queer visual art and its’ satellites.
VSSL is a queer & neurodivergent led organisation.
www.vssl-studio.org
]performance s p a c e [
- was co-founded in 2011 by Benjamin Sebastian & Bean with the mission: ‘to nurture the prime conditions for performance art(ists) in the U.K.’ Sebastian continues as a founding director alongside ]ps[ associate director; Ash McNaughton.
]ps[ is regularly funded by Arts Council England, most recently in 2021 for the organisations 10th anniversary programme; ‘PSX: A Decade of Performance Art in the U.K.’.
]performance s p a c e [ is a queer & neurodivergent led organisation that aims to:
“... nurture the prime conditions for performance art(ists) in the U.K. We are committed to supporting challenging and difficult practices that embrace performance art as an ever-evolving medium.”
www.performancespace.org
Becoming Constellation
- was initiated in 2016 by Benjamin Sebastian as an ever evolving / incompletable, transmedial artwork and exhibition.
Encompassing sigil craft, tattooing, visual art exhibition & a continually growing collaborator set; Becoming Constellation seeks to map queer narrative production across people, geographies and time. Collaborators to date include:
Fabiola Paz,
Dani de’Emilia,
Ryan Burke,
JD Melling,
Keoui Keijaun Thomas,
Alicia Radage,
Andre Braga Verissimo,
Bean,
Joseph Morgan Schofield,
Matteo Cortés,
Jade Montserrat
and Esther Neff.
becoming constellation