Benji Connell

DIRECTOR

Benji is an architecturally trained freelance illustrator and artist, with over 10 years of industry experience. Benji set up Concrete Clouds in summer 2019, having spent a number of years in architectural practice in London, scribbling and sketching, before deciding to set up his own illustration studio to focus on his passion and continue to scribble and sketch.

Benji graduated with a Distinction in Architecture from the Mackintosh School of Architecture at the Glasgow School of Art, where he was awarded the Bram Stoker Medal acknowledging the most imaginative work across the art school. In the years since, Benji became a Member of the Society of Architectural Illustration, the world’s oldest and most prestigious architectural illustration organisation.

Benji is an avid traveller and urban sketcher and was a 2018 recipient of the John Kinross Scholarship from The Royal Scottish Academy of Art and Architecture, commissioned to draw and produce artwork inspired by an extended stay in Florence. He has exhibited work internationally, from the Venice Biennale to Art Basel Miami. In 2025 Benji was shortlisted by the RIBA Journal as a Rising Star, for championing the power of hand-drawing with his distinctive and engaging architectural illustrations.