Benji Hartfield (b. 1999) is a multi-disciplinary artist living in Aotearoa New Zealand whose studio is in Island Bay, Te Whanganui-a-Tara. Benji graduated from Scots College in 2017, in which year was realised his devotion to art; creating a number of installations contextual to his surrounding schooling environment, whilst working on his photographic series Time, Existence, Ephemerality (2017) for which Benji was awarded the country's NZQA Top Scholar in Photography. Living at Weir House in 2018 he began studying Art History and Philosophy at Victoria University of Wellington before acknowledging that he was not finding time enough to pursue and realise his own art. He studied Fine Arts for 4 weeks at Massey University of Wellington. Acquiring a studio in early 2019 which NZ architect James Walter Chapman-Taylor designed in 1907, Benji has since been working from this hundred-year-old structure with a surrounding garden. The artist travels up and down the country in his 1989 Toyota Hilux and loves gardening.