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Ben Dolan is an Irish contemporary artist. Ben was born in Manchester in 1970. He is currently studying for a BA(Hons) in fine art at the IT Carlow’s Wexford Art&Design Campus. His art covers a range of mediums working with video, sound, sculpture, installation, performance, painting and photography. Dolan’s work has been exhibited in venues across the south of Ireland including Visual Carlow, Studio9 Wexford, Workhouse Square at McDonagh Junction Kilkenny, Westgate Hetitage Centre Wexford, Red Door Gallery Wexford and New Ross Public Library. The artist currently lives and works in New Ross, County Wexford, Ireland Ben Dolan was born in Manchester in 1970 and spent most of his early life in rural Ireland, before moving to Kinsale in Co. Cork in the mid-eighties. Ben's father Pat Dolan was a Silversmith and Sculptor and Ben served an apprenticeship first in his workshop in Kinsale, then in London and Copenhagen.