Ben is the inaugural Curatorial Fellow at V&A East, the newest campus of the Victoria and Albert Museum, opening in 2025. Benjamin completed his Masters (MEng) in Integrated Mechanical and Electrical Engineering at the University of Bath, where his thesis “I Am An Instrument: Human Machine Interaction Using a Gesture Controlled Generative Music Feedback System” investigated the use of interactive audio feedback in virtually simulated environments for rehabilitation and public use. Benjamin exhibited his Masters project as part of London Design Festival 2022, and went on to work at 180 Studios prior to joining the V&A East.

In 2023, Benjamin received funding from Black Curatorial Fly Me Out Fund and V&A Early Career Development Fund to research notions of ancestral memory and lost histories present within Jamaican sound system cultures and indigenous sonic practices. Field recordings and oral histories conducted during this research will form part of an ongoing sonic investigation of memory and displacement.

Benjamin has worked on a broad range of cultural projects across the UK. He has collaborated on exhibitions at Southbank Centre and London Design Festival, and consulted for independent Black film festivals and global internet radio stations. Benjamin’s writing has been published by V&A and Art UK.