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Ben Fredericks (1982, Nottingham UK) is an artist who works in interactive theatre, Extended Reality (VR/AR), installation, and moving image. Their work is highly influenced by cinema and narrative structures in storytelling. They often tackle highly contentious ethical issues that explore both sides of difficult subjects, to challenge audiences’ preconceived ideas.

Ben Fredericks [Collaborations] is an interdisciplinary creative group, headed by Ben Fredericks. Their work explores how interactive narrative’s, can create a powerful immersive experience that allows the viewer to have a deep engagement with the work and its ideas.

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2025

Work, 2025, LCB Depot, Leicester, UK

Conflicted (FORMAT Festival), 2025, Phoenix, Leicester/Derby, UK

COMPUTALA, 2025, LCB Depot, Leicester, UK

2023

Choosing Children Tour

Attenborough Arts Centre, Leicester, UK
Mansfield Old Library, Leicester, UK
Lincoln Arts Centre, Lincoln, UK
Arena Theatre, Wolverhampton, UK
Lakeside Arts, Nottingham, UK

Object Memory, Phoenix, Leicester, UK

2022

Rock Paper Scissors, Alex Ruhl, Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy | Producer

Archive of the Unseen, Christopher Samuel, Wellcome Collection, London UK | Producer

2020

Playing God Tour

VR Days, QUAD, Derby UK

2019

Playing God Tour

Storytelling in the Fourth Industrial Revolution, Ruskin Gallery (Cambridge, UK)
Hyper Festival (São Paulo, Brazil)
Aesthetica Film Festival (York, UK)
Frequency Festival (Lincoln, UK)
Leicester XR (Leicester, UK)
Raindance Film Festival (London, UK)
Cannes XR (Marché Du Film Festival de Cannes, Cannes France)

2017

FORMAT Festival, QUAD, Derby UK

2016

My Life (the Shape Open 2016), Guest Projects, London UK | Production manager & Curator | Shape Arts

2015

Illham, Museum of Islamic Art, Doha Qatar | Co-curator with British Council | Shape Arts

Strange Love (Shape Showreel), Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London UK | Curator | Shape Arts

2014

[In]visible (the Shape Open 2014), Shape Gallery, London UK | Production manager & Curator | Shape Arts

2013

Incubarte 6, Centre del Carme/La Llotgeta, Valencia Spain

Liminal, Camberwell Space, London UK

Disability Re-assessed (The Shape Open 2013), Nunnery Gallery, London UK | Production manager & Curator | Shape Arts

2012

Re-Vault, Zigfrid von Underbelly, London UK

Music vs Film, Book Club, London UK

First Four, Lauderdale House, London UK | Production manager & co-curator | Shape Arts

The Shortlist 5, Swiss Cottage Gallery, London UK | Production manager & curator | Shape
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The Shortlist 4, Shape Gallery, London UK | Production manager & curator | Shape Arts

2011

Uninterpreted, Shape Gallery, London UK | Production manager & curator | Shape Arts

2010

Film-Video-Performance (Shape Showreel), Wimbledon Space; London UK | Production manager & curator | Shape Arts

Animate, Shape Gallery, London UK 2010 | Production manager & co-curator | Shape Arts

2009

Science-Art, Shape Gallery, London UK | Production manager & curator | Shape Arts

2005

All together at once at the same time, Colony, Birmingham UK

2004

Your Thoughts Are Golden, City Space, Birmingham UK

This Is It, The Works Gallery, Birmingham UK

2003

B.R.O.S.S #1, BIAD Gallery, Birmingham UK