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Ben Tufnell

Ben Tufnell
Ben Tufnell

Ben Tufnell is a curator and writer based in London.

His short stories have been published by Elsewhere, Litro, Lunate, Storgy, and The Write Launch, and as chapbooks by Nightjar Press and The Aleph Press.

He has previously worked as a curator at Norwich Castle Museum and Tate Britain, and is a founding director of the independent art gallery Parafin in London. His writing on the relationship between art and landscapes has appeared in his books Land Art (Tate Publishing, 2006), On The Very Edge Of The Ocean (Tate St Ives Research Series, 2006), and In Land: Writings Around Land Art and Its Legacies (Zero Books, 2019).

His debut novel, The North Shore, was published by Fleet (Little, Brown) in spring 2023.

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