{"id":3905,"date":"2012-01-18T10:21:30","date_gmt":"2012-01-18T10:21:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/locwsinternational.com\/?p=3905"},"modified":"2013-12-09T13:47:13","modified_gmt":"2013-12-09T13:47:13","slug":"rik-bennett","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/locwsinternational.com\/?p=3905","title":{"rendered":"Rik Bennett"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[lang_en]<br \/>\nRik Bennett born in 1966 and lives and works in Swansea.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/locwsinternational.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/artworks\/bennett\/bennett2.jpg\" alt=\"bennett\" title=\"bennett\" \/><br \/>\nPilot Yellow 3, 2008 Rik Bennett<br \/>\nRik Bennett is an artist in the punk DIY style and has been working with stencils throughout his practice. Bennett works site-specifically frequently creating artworks in unexpected locations, such as remote beaches and neglected urban areas. A key element of his work is that it is left for others to discover by chance, a gesture that is fundamental to Bennett\u2019s way of working, one that emulates his interests in the world and creates a journey of discovery. <br \/>\nBennett is also a surfer, skateboarder, musician, outdoorsman, beachcomber and occasional safari guide. His artworks reflect these aspects of his life and experiences, creating a poetic vehicle for him to convey a sense of joy and sometimes confusion into the world. <br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/locwsinternational.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/artworks\/bennett\/bennett1.jpg\" alt=\"bennett\" title=\"bennett\" \/><br \/>\nErik Satie, 2007 Rik Bennett<br \/>\n<br \/>\n[\/lang_en]<\/p>\n<p>[lang_cy]<br \/>\nRik Bennett born in 1966 and lives and works in Swansea.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/locwsinternational.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/artworks\/bennett\/bennett2.jpg\" alt=\"bennett\" title=\"bennett\" \/><br \/>\nPilot Yellow 3, 2008 Rik Bennett<br \/>\nRik Bennett is an artist in the punk DIY style and has been working with stencils throughout his practice. Bennett works site-specifically frequently creating artworks in unexpected locations, such as remote beaches and neglected urban areas. A key element of his work is that it is left for others to discover by chance, a gesture that is fundamental to Bennett\u2019s way of working, one that emulates his interests in the world and creates a journey of discovery. <br \/>\nBennett is also a surfer, skateboarder, musician, outdoorsman, beachcomber and occasional safari guide. His artworks reflect these aspects of his life and experiences, creating a poetic vehicle for him to convey a sense of joy and sometimes confusion into the world. <br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/locwsinternational.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/artworks\/bennett\/bennett1.jpg\" alt=\"bennett\" title=\"bennett\" \/><br \/>\nErik Satie, 2007 Rik Bennett<br \/>\n<br \/>\n[\/lang_cy]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[lang_en] Rik Bennett born in 1966 and lives and works in Swansea. Pilot Yellow 3, 2008 Rik Bennett Rik Bennett is an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,9],"tags":[21,90],"class_list":["post-3905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-installation","category-mixed-media","tag-art-across-the-high-street","tag-rik-bennett"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/locwsinternational.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3905","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/locwsinternational.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/locwsinternational.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/locwsinternational.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/locwsinternational.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3905"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/locwsinternational.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3905\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10776,"href":"https:\/\/locwsinternational.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3905\/revisions\/10776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/locwsinternational.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/locwsinternational.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/locwsinternational.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}