Ashleigh Beattie
Manchester
I am a Zimbabwean born Visual Artist working mainly in Sculpture and Installation. My work explores themes, of belonging and displacement.
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Ashleigh Beattie is a Zimbabwean artist based in Manchester.
My practice explores themes of displacement and belonging as a migrant living in the diaspora. My sculptures and installations repurpose everyday materials such as newspapers and tin cans. These fragile materials are embedded with meaning, memories and stories. Through my work these found materials are transformed and given permanence. This recycling characterises my practice and draws from my childhood in Zimbabwe, where nothing is thrown away - everything is recycled.
Higher Education
2005-2009 2:1 Bachelors of Fine Art (HONS) University of Cumbria, U.K.
Solo Exhibitions
2010 May In search of the Promised Land, Carlisle Cathedral, Carlisle, England
2016 Jun In search of the Promised Land, Alexandira Library, Manchester.
Group Exhibitions
2021 Sep HOME: Manchester Open Art Exhibition, Manchester.
2019 Mar Rocking The Boat, Creative Recycling Gallery, Chorlton, Manchester.
2014 Mar The Luck Of Edenhall, The Old Fire Station, Carlisle.
2010 Nov The Meeting Point, National Gallery, Harare, Zimbabwe.
2009 Jul Summer Exhibition, Cecil Street Projects, Carlisle, England.
2009 Jul Summer Exhibition, Bank Gallery, Carlisle, England.
2009 Jun This side of Somewhere, University of Cumbria, Carlisle, England.
2008 Dec Love in the Asylum, Wasps Studios, Glasgow, Scotland.
2008 Sep Liquidizer, Vault Gallery, Lancaster, England
2008 Feb Seconds Out- Redefined, University of Cumbria, Carlisle, England
Grants/ Awards/ Residencies
2007-2009 University of Cumbria, Undergraduate Scholarship.
2009 Undergraduate Arts Achievement Award, University of Cumbria.
Commissions
2013 Nov Illustration for cover of GWC Annual Report, Cape Town, South Africa
Reviews
27-10-2010 “Zimbabwe: Breda New Art Sensation”, T. Monda, The Zimbabwe Herald.
http://allafrica.com/stories/201010261145.html
Past work
2010- 2011 Primary Art and music teacher, Kyle Preparatory School, Masvingo, Zimbabwe.
2012-2014 Volunteer Music Teacher in a Preschool, Trinity Children's Center, Cape Town, South Africa.
2012- 2014 Volunteer children's worker, Cape Town, South Africa
2015-2017 Scene Maker, with, Making a Scene, Dewsbury West Yorkhire.
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