Ben Leslie is an Adelaide based artist and founding Co-Director of Fontanelle Gallery and Studios. He has a Masters of Research in Visual Art and currently holds a lecturing position at the University of South Australia School of Art. His sculptural practice has a particular concern with the studio’s ongoing relationship with art historical contexts, and explores the recent return to art-making at the level of first order experience. He has exhibited with the Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia, the Australian Experimental Art Foundation, FELTspace, Fontanelle Gallery and West Space in Melbourne. In early 2017 he will feature in *Versus Rodin: Bodies across space and time* at the Art Gallery of South Australia.