Born in Essex, Oben studied at Camberwell and the University of Glamorgan, where she received both BA and MA. Her graduate show won the Arts Council Wales Brian Ross Graduate Award and the University of Glamorgan Purchase Prize. Oben continues her relationship with the university, teaching art history, theory, criticism at BA and MA levels. Alongside teaching, Oben continues to make and exhibit her own artwork and has exhibited widely through out Wales and England including Tate Modern. Following her two year fellowship with the 56 Group Wales, Oben was offered full membership and accepted the role as group secretary.
Member Since 2014My work is multi-disciplinary comprising of performance, installation, and participation as well as more recognizable art forms such as print, collage and photography. Subject matter is often political and at times antagonistic, attacking even the institutions of art, its objects, its artists and its viewers. With tongue in cheek, I aggravate; with difficulty and guilt, I dispel ethics, always for our own good, to play with ideas of the artist as hostile, antagonist, insinuator, show-off, trickster, escapist, immoralist, deceiver and seducer in creative acts that blur the boundaries between reality and fiction, truth and lies.
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