Katy Beinart
Location: London
Website: www.katybeinart.co.uk My practice is interdisciplinary, combining art and architecture to examine themes of history, identity and place. Much of my work is research based and site-specific, and evolves through a participatory process, which has developed from several years working in youth arts and participatory development. I am interested in creating work in public places, which offer opportunities for participation and interaction for residents and users of spaces, creating dialogue and inviting users to collaborate in the process of place-making.
I trained as an architect at the Bartlett, University College, London and Oxford Brookes University, and my practice involves a research process often using architectural representations, including map-making and drawing, photography, and film. Outcomes vary from installations and interventions into the environment, public art works, and performance, to gallery based work documenting a process.
My current area of research and work is an investigation into genealogy, migration and environment, using the history of plant transfers and environmental change to explore questions of identity and belonging.
In addition to my artistic practice, I have extensive experience as an educator in galleries, schools and informal settings.
Exhibitions
Exhibitions and Events
2010: Though I Have Missed You So Very Much (performance), Humber Mouth - Hull Literature Festival
2010: Artlink Gallery, Hull
2010: Unbuilt, EasaHQ, Manchester
2010: To Find Your Home Visit Ours, Greatmore Studios, Cape Town, South Africa
2010: Origination, University of Stellenbosch Gallery, Stellenbosch, South Africa
2009: I'll Be Your Monkey (Performance), Palanga, Lithuania
2009: Paradise Lost (walk), South East Festival of Architecture, Oxford
2009: Art Take-Out, Tsangs Kitchen, Oxford
2009: Labour of Love, Artworks Galleries, Newcastle
2008: Hairport (performance), Late at the Tate (curated by Beaconsfield Gallery), Tate Britain, London
2008: The Gift, OVADA, Oxford
2007: Parallel Worlds, OVADA Gallery, Oxford (solo exhibition)
2007: Standing up for our Futures, Oxfordshire Records Office, Oxford
2006: Dead Space- A Special Place, Modern Art Oxford Café Gallery, Oxford
2005: Screening of ‘Lady in Red’ film, New Walk Museum, Leicester
2005: New for Old, OVADA Gallery, Oxford
