Becky Beasley

Born:
1975
Residence:
Saint Leonards, United Kingdom
Nationality:
British
Trust:
APT London
Artist Social Media
FOLLOW THIS ARTIST
CONNECT TO CONCIERGE
Share this Artist

PRESS & PUBLICATIONS

  • Lisa Cooley Gallery, an influential Lower East Side space that opened on Orchard Street in 2008, has closed, sources tell ARTnews.

    Read More
  • In 1962, Robert Rauschenberg was experimenting with printing techniques using plates from newspapers, when his lithographic printing stone cracked.

    Read More
  • How can art introduce ambiguity into our experience of the everyday? Artist Becky Beasley talks to four by three about her practice, muteness as a form of resistance, the liminal space between photography and sculpture, and the place of death in the photographic image.

    Read More
  • “A Change of Heart” is an exhibition all about flowers. Directly addressing a subject matter that has always been historically marginalized as a subgenre, seen as little more than the byproduct of a charming amateurism, and minor art making, “A Change of Heart” embraces the floral still life in all its formal, symbolic, political and aesthetic heterogeneity.

    Read More
  • The 31st Biennial of Graphic Arts, Ljubljana presents “Over you / you”, the 60th-anniversary edition of the Biennial. Founded in 1955 in Yugoslavia, it is not only one of the world’s oldest biennials, but the first dedicated to the graphic arts.

    Read More
  • The shadow of Barbara Hepworth may still loom large over female sculpture in Yorkshire.

    Read More
  • Laura Bartlett Gallery is pleased to present The Walk…in green, our fourth solo exhibition with artist Becky Beasley.

    Read More
  • The shadow of Barbara Hepworth may still loom large over female sculpture in Yorkshire.

    Read More
  • British artist Becky Beasley explores relationships between photography and objects, the body and literature. The title of the exhibition is taken

    Read More
  • Make a visit to a gallery exhibition in 2013 your New Year Resolution. Richard Moss takes a look at some of the top UK art exhibitions beyond London in 2013.

    Read More
  • For the inaugural exhibition at its new Villa Paloma, the team at Monaco's National Musée Nouveau bypassed professional curators, hiring German artist

    Read More
  • Facing out from the entrance of The Space Between, (the title given to the recent rehang of the Tate’s contemporary collection) kneels a disfigured

    Read More
  • Matthew Marks is pleased to announce La Carte d’après Nature, an exhibition curated by Thomas Demand, in his gallery at 522 West 22nd Street.

    Read More
BIOGRAPHY

Born in 1975 in the United Kingdom, Becky Beasley lives and works in Hastings, England. While Beasley’s primary media are photography and sculpture, her work is deeply informed by a relationship to language. Aesthetically she engages in a questioning of the relations between hand-made, often wooden, objects and their (re-)presentation as photographs, in which her objects are regularly the subject. Her subject matter is composed of the personal and art historical, often mediated through literary references. Her sculptures have been described as ‘mental objects’, and this intended double meaning ideally suits the precise and playful use of conceptual strategies embedded within intensely assembled objects. Her works perform an incessant questioning of the relations between images and pictorial representations. They are concerned with the Everyday and yet remain resistant to the insistences and limitations of its language.

Becky Beasley has recently presented solo exhibitions at Office Baroque Gallery, Antwerp (2008 and 2010), Stanley Picker Gallery, Kingston (2010) and Laura Bartlett Gallery, London (2009). Her work was included in “The Malady of Writing” at MACBA, Barcelona (2009), “Word Event” at Kunsthalle Basel (2008) and “Slow Movement or: Half and Whole” at Kunsthalle Bern (2009).

Becky Beasley is represented by Laura Bartlett Gallery, London and Francesca Minini, Milan.


For additional information about this artist, visit Mutual Art