Making Space
Origination - Katy Beinart and Rebecca Beinart
Over more than a decade, Origination has generated seven exhibitions, numerous events, screenings and talks, as well as a blog and journal articles. Katy and Rebecca will use their Making Space time together to revisit, document and catalogue their past work, thinking through how it could be given presence as a whole body of work, and its next creative iteration. They will explore ideas for extending the project through more-than-human collaborations with plants, salt and other materialities of the land.
During their residency, they will be mapping, documenting and cataloguing works from the Origination series, placing works into the space, and holding conversations with curators and researchers about the way the work has a presence and its future possibilities.
On Thursday 3 October at 6pm, Katy and Rebecca will discuss the themes and share their current thoughts on the project at an Artist Talk + Q&A. Find out more and buy tickets here.
About The Artist
Katy Beinart (b.1977, Birmingham) is a visual artist whose artworks include sculpture, installation, public art, textiles, film and performance. After studying architecture, Katy has practiced as a multidisciplinary artist since 2004, combining art and spatial practice to make artworks in the public realm as well as exhibiting in galleries, festivals and biennales in the UK and internationally. Recent projects include Acts of Transfer (with Lizzie Lloyd), funded by Arts Council England, 2 Metre Conversations (with John Edwards) commissioned by Phoenix Art Space, Hybrid, a permanent public art work in Braintree, Essex, and Saltways, commissioned by the Canal & River Trust. Recent exhibitions include Wriggle Room: Open Studio at Towner Eastbourne (with Lydia Hunt, part of a residency 2022-24), Correspondences (with Rebecca Beinart) at the Jewish Museum London and Five Years London. She has worked in arts education for over 20 years and is was recently an Artist in Residence at Towner Eastbourne’s Wriggle Room project. She also teaches at University of Brighton and Open College of the Arts (Open University).
She uses processes of participatory research and social practice to respond to the context and history of places and people, and her work examines relationships between heritage, history and memory, culture and environment, performance and ritual, migration and home. She draws on past and present material cultures in her projects, often adapting old technologies, found objects and everyday activities and rituals. Her work aims to reveal and question pasts, and ask how these belong in the present circumstances of places, and might shape their futures. In this sense she is interested in memory as a practice that is active and alive.
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Rebecca Beinart is an artist, educator and curator, based in Nottingham. Through socially engaged and place-based research, she develops long term projects - using creative workshops and public dialogue to reflect on collective histories and futures, social and environmental justice, knowledge-making, and the politics of public space. She makes sculpture, costume, performance and film, stages events in public places, and convenes public platforms for exchange. She works through collaboration, with an expanded approach to community that includes the more-than-human. Collaborations have included work with artists, writers, historians, scientists, herbalists, landworkers, activists and communities.
Recent projects and commissions include: Soil Recipes, a project for Ignite! with soil scientist Kits Campbell and Pamoja women’s group (2024); The Body Forest Summer School with Jack Young, Spike Island (2023); Desire Lines, a Trust New Art commission for the National Trust North Lakes (2020-2021); Correspondences exhibition at Five Years, London, with Katy Beinart (2020); Urban Antibodies, research supported by Arts Council England and Wellcome Trust, and a residency at ZK/U Berlin (2017-2019); Jerwood Open Forest at Jerwood Space, London as one of the shortlisted artists for Jerwood Open Forest (Jerwood Charitable Foundation and Forestry Commission England) (2016).
In 2023, Rebecca was awarded a ‘Developing Your Creative Practice’ funding from Arts Council England.
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