Brian Addison Bennett is a muralist and studio artist with a background in graffiti. His practice is driven by intuition, catharsis, and a lifelong compulsion to create. With over a decade of experience leading large-scale public works and contributing to collaborative mural initiatives, his imagery has evolved through recurring motifs developed over years of experimentation.
Bennett’s work exists in the public realm as a direct response to environment and place. Image-making functions as an ongoing internal dialogue, shaped by the spaces he inhabits and explores. Cathedrals and temples, music halls and warehouse raves, transit tunnels, storm drains, and the overlooked infrastructure of cities all inform his visual language. An avid walker and urban explorer, he draws inspiration from the sonic textures of movement, travel, and urban life, where vibration and frequency become both subject and structure.
Deeply connected to the materiality of physical media, Bennett values permanence in an increasingly digital world. Through the Mortal Dilemma photo book series and a range of self-published zines, he captures fleeting moments as tangible artifacts, reflecting a belief that stories are meant to be experienced physically, held, and preserved. This commitment to material presence extends across his studio and mural practices alike.
Bennett’s current body of work centres on cymatics, the study of how sound frequencies generate visible form. His recent work translates these unseen forces into high-contrast, maximalist compositions using aerosol, sculptural wood cut-outs, and resin. Colour is deployed as both signal and sensation, referencing natural warning systems and biological patterning to create imagery that feels simultaneously alien and familiar. Recurring meditative forms, developed through automatic drawing, suggest vibration, resonance, and the possibility that reality itself is shaped by sound.
His studio practice exists in direct dialogue with his field work. Murals allow him to engage with place at scale, embedding fragments of lived experience into public space, while the studio offers a way to distill that energy into collected objects and immersive environments. His most recent solo exhibition, Frequency, opened on November 20, 2025, in Vancouver, expanding his exploration of sound and resonance across a series of mixed-media works.
Bennett’s practice seeks to create moments of disruption, prompting viewers to pause and consider the meaning of the work and their own experience. In a landscape dominated by algorithms and constant distraction, his pieces interrupt habitual ways of seeing.