Katy Beinart 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 in South Africa, Portugal and Haiti. Recent projects include Acts of Transfer (with Lizzie Lloyd), funded by Arts Council England, A Difficult Place and 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 and screenings 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 in a variety of contexts including Galleries, Museums, Schools, and HE and has recently completed a 2-year residency with Towner Eastbourne’s early years programme. She is also currently a Seinor Lecturer in Architecture at the University of Brighton and is a fellow of the HEA.
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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