Katy Beinart

Commissions & Projects

2023:                Re-enchanted for Walk the Chalk Festival, Sussex

2023:                A Difficult Place, University of Brighton/AHRC funded film project (with John Edwards)

2021-22:           Acts of Transfer (with Lizzie Lloyd)

2020:                2m Conversations film project, Phoenix Art Space (with John Edwards)

2019-20:          Meadow Rise Braintree Public Art Commission

2017-18:          The Ring, Public Art Commission, Canal & River Trust, Worcestershire

2016-18:          Making Suburban Faith, University College London – resident artist for AHRC funded project

2015-16:          Brixton Museum, London

2015:               Imagined Geographies, National Trust, Biddulph Grange Garden (with Rebecca Beinart)

2014-15:          Public Art Road Trip, Figure Ground

2013-14:          Adaptation, Library of Birmingham (with Rebecca Beinart)

2012-13:          Anchor & Magnet, London

2012:               Committee for Lost Memories Cafe and Shop, Multistorey, West Bromwich

2011:               Memory Cafe, University of the West of England

2011:               Value of Small Things, Multistorey, West Bromwich

2010:               A Guide to the Lost Legends of Southend on Sea, Artside, Coexist Arts, Southend

2009:               Snap Bracknell, Bracknell Forest Council

2009-13:          Figure Ground Projects, South East region

2008:               Hide, Warneford Hospital Sculpture Commission, Oxford

2008:               Origination, installation at Oxford University Botanic Gardens (part of Gift exhibition)

Exhibitions, Performances & Screenings

Solo & Duo exhibitions

2023:                Wriggle Room: Open Studio, Towner Eastbourne (with Lydia Hunt)

2022:                Front Room Film: Acts of Transfer, Brighton CCA (Katy Beinart and Lizzie Lloyd)

2021:                Correspondences, Katy & Rebecca Beinart, Jewish Museum London

2021:                Acts of Transfer, Katy Beinart and Lizzie Lloyd, Phoenix Art Space

2020:                Correspondences, Five Years London (Katy & Rebecca Beinart)

2018:               The Fabric of Faith, Gunnersbury Park Museum, London

2017:               My life is but a weaving, St Thomas the Apostle/UCL, London

2013:               Saltworks, Plataforma Revolver, Lisbon

2013:               The Secret History of Plants (Katy & Rebecca Beinart), South London Botanical Institute

2012:               Raconteur, joint exhibition with Bobby Lloyd, August Art, London

2011:               Origination (Katy & Rebecca Beinart), 198 Contemporary Arts & Learning, London

2010:               Origination (Katy & Rebecca Beinart), Artlink Gallery, Hull

2010:               Origination (Katy & Rebecca Beinart), University of Stellenbosch Gallery, South Africa

2007:               Parallel Worlds, OVADA, Oxford, UK 

Group exhibitions

2023:                Community Takeover: A Seat at the Table, Phoenix Art Space (with John Edwards)

2022:                The Domestic Academics, Loughborough University and LU Arts

2021:                The Domestic Academics, University of Brighton and Online

2021:                Community Takeover: Stories, Phoenix Brighton (with John Edwards)

2020:                2 Metre Conversations, Brighton Photo Fringe (with John Edwards)

2019:               Windrush Presence, SEAS, Brighton

2018:               My life is but a weaving, at Tate Exchange, Tate Modern, London

2017:               Maps & Lives, Phoenix Brighton

2017:               My life is but a weaving, Phoenix Brighton Open Studios, Brighton

2017:               Screening of Lady in Red, Oxford International Women’s Festival

2016:               Loves Lives and Loss,: Traces at Fenton House, National Trust, London

2016:               Brixton Museum, Rebel Space Pavilion, Brixton Design Trail/London Design Festival

2015:               Brixton Museum, Brixton Library/Lambeth Archives, London

2015:               Brixton Conversations (screening), Ritzy Cinema, London

2015:               Reimagining Rurality, University of Westminster, London

2014:               Cities Methodologies, Slade Research Centre, UCL, London

2014:               Navigations, Red Gallery, London

2014:               Old Skool Breaks (with Rebecca Beinart), Primary, Nottingham

2013:               Goute Sel, 3rd Ghetto Biennale, Port-au-Prince, Haiti

2013:               Lambeth Treasures, Royal Festival Hall, London (curated by Building Exploratory)

2013:               Cities Methodologies, UCL Slade Research Centre, London

2013:               A Game of Dominoes, Art & Geography Conference, University of Lyon Lumiere, Lyon, France

2012:               Interlocal, Contact, Manchester

2012:               Stockwell Studios Open, London

2012:               Traces, Designers Block HQ, London

2012:               Love Letters, Goodenough Hall, London

2012:               T.R.I.P.O.D. (performance) at Camden Arts Centre, London

2011:               T.R.I.P.O.D. (performance) at Whitley Arts Festival, Reading

2011:               T.R.I.P.O.D. (performance) at Slade PhD Conference and Cities Methodologies, UCL, London

2010:               Offere (screening) Firestation arts, Windsor

2010:               SALON 10 Group Show, Four Corners, London

2010:               You're On My Mind (Online Performance), facebook/London/Berlin

2010:               They Came From Nowhere (Performance), Go Islington Festival, London

2010:               Though I Have Missed You So Very Much (performance), Hull Literature Festival

2010:               Unbuilt, EasaHQ, Manchester

2010:               Found Treasures (live event/installation), Barracks Lane Community Garden

2010:               To Find Your Home Visit Ours, Greatmore Studios, Cape Town, South Africa

2009:               Research Provocateur, Object Retrieval, University College London

2009:               I'll Be Your Monkey (Performance), Palanga, Lithuania

2009:               Paradise Lost (Performance), South-East Festival of Architecture/Oxford Open Doors

2009:               Art Take-Out, Tsangs Kitchen, Oxford

2009:               Labour of Love, Artworks Galleries, Newcastle

2008:               Hairport (Performance), Beaconsfield Gallery, Late at the Tate, Tate Britain, London

2008:               The Modern Factory, Figure Ground, G10, Reading

2008:               The Ley Hunters Companion (screening), Reading Experimental Film Festival, Reading

2008:               The Gift, OVADA, Oxford

Awards & Grants

2022:                Ignite 3.1 funding for Cost of Living Film project

2020:                Arts Council England project grant for Acts of Transfer Project

2018:               University of Brighton research support funding for ‘Unmapping Social Practice’ project

2015:               Arts Council England Grant and Heritage Lottery Fund grant for the Brixton Museum project

2014:               Selected artist for the Artangel Open 100 2014

2014:               Train & Engage bursary (UCL Public Engagement Unit)

2013:               Artists International Development Fund, Arts Council England

2013:               Architectural Research Fund grant from Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL

2013:               UCL Environment Institute Grant for The Brixton Exchange, Anchor & Magnet project

2012:               Arts Council grant for Anchor & Magnet project

2012:               Step Out (UCL Public Engagement Unit) grant for Anchor & Magnet project

2011:               Beacon Bursary (UCL Public Engagement Unit) grant for Origination residency

2011:               Arts Council grant for Origination residency and exhibition, 198 CAL

2009:               Arts Council grant for Origination project and residency, Greatmore Studios, South Africa

2008:               European Association for Jewish Culture grant for The Gift exhibition

2007:               Art Plus Final Award - Best Early Career Artist, Arts Council England and SEEDA

Residencies

2022:               Artist In Residence, Wriggle Room, Towner Eastbourne

2013:               3rd Ghetto Biennale, Port-au-Prince, Haiti

2013:               Fabrica Braco de Prata, Lisbon, Portugal (Associated Project, Lisbon Architecture Triennal)

2012-3:            Anchor and Magnet Residency, London

2012:               August Art, London

2011:               Origination Residency in Brixton Market, London

2010:               Visiting Artist, Greatmore Studios, Cape Town and University of Stellenbosch, South Africa

2009:               Transient Spaces: The Tourist Syndrome Summer Camp, Palanga, Lithuania

2008:               Braziers International Artists Workshop, Braziers Park

Freelance Education & Consultation Work (selection)

2022:               Artist In Residence, Wriggle Room, Towner Eastbourne

2018:               Workshop for Gunnersbury Park Museum, London

2016-17:          Widening Participation school workshops for the University of Brighton

2014:               Social Heritage Record, Lambeth Council, London

2013:               Evaluator for Louis Vuitton Young Arts Project, South London Gallery, London

2011:               Creative Practitioner, Milton Hall Primary School, Essex

2010:               Creative Routes, Artsdepot, London

2010:               Focus Group Consultation, Science Museum, London

2008-10:          Teaching Resource, Turner Contemporary/Stour Valley Arts/Canterbury Museums

2010:               Creative Practitioner, Ropley Primary School, Hampshire

Artists Talks, Conference Papers, and Workshops

2023:                Talk and workshop for MA Curating students, UCL

2023:                Talk and discussion on social practice for IRAP students, Frank Mohr Institute, Groningen

2023:                Structures of Community symposium, Brighton CCA (co-organised conference)

2022:                Presentation at Connective Symposium, Fontys University, Tilburg, Netherlands

2022:                Acts of Transfer talk with Lizzie Lloyd and Marianne Mulvey, Arnolfini Bristol

2022:                Paper for Colonialism and Transgenerational Memory Workshop, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology

2022:                Acts of Transfer: Sharing Social Practice Workshop, Towner Eastbourne

2022:                Really Sayin’ Somethin’: socially engaged and participatory research in art, design & architecture, Brighton CCA/University of Brighton (co-organised event)

2022:                Acts of Transfer Book Launch, with Sophie Hope and Lizzie Lloyd, Brighton CCA

2021:                Correspondences: In Conversation, Jewish Museum London

2021:                Salted Earth, talk as part of programme for SILT, Brighton CCA

2021:                Correspondences symposium, Centre for Memory, Narrative and Histories, Uni. Of Brighton

2020:                Unlikely Partners talk, University of Brighton

2020:                Spotlight Artist Talk, Phoenix Art Space, Brighton

2019:               Workshop for Social Practice Social, Primary, Nottingham

2019:               Paper for Mapping Contemporary Art in the Heritage Experience conference

2019:               Fringe artist commission for Axisweb Social Works Live? At MMU, Manchester

2019:               Paper for Spatial Mutuality symposium, UCA Farnham

2019:               Paper for Human and Non-human Migration, University of Brighton

2019:               Artists Talk, Socially Engaged Art Salon, Brighton

2018:               Presentation for MA Inclusive Arts, University of Brighton                                         

2018:               Paper for Salt: History, Heritage and Tourism conference, Arc-et-Senans, France

2017:               Performance and talk, Figure Ground Book Launch, Primary Nottingham

2017:               Paper for Textiles as Practice based Research Symposium, UCL

2017:               Masterclass workshop for Edge conference, Slade/UCL

2017:               Artists Talk, St Thomas the Apostle/UCL, London

2016:               The Fabric of Faith, International Colloquium for Geohumanities, Universitat Pompeu Fabra

2016:               The Brixton Exchange 2, London (co-organised conference)

2015:               Paper for Art, Aesthetics and Function symposium, British Museum (with Frank Cartledge)

2015:               Paper for Reimagining Rurality, University of Westminster

2014:               Paper for The Story of Memory conference, Roehampton University

2014:               Paper for London Conference for Critical Thought, Goldsmiths, London

2014:               AHRC Curating Community Workshop, Centre for Creative Collaboration/Goldsmiths, London

2013:               Artists in Conversation event, Library of Birmingham, Birmingham

2013:               Creative Time Summit discussion, for Create London, Space Studios, London

2013:               All That Glitters: Arts and regeneration, UP Projects, London

2013:               Learning from Neighbourhoods, co-organised event with Academy of Urbanism, London.

2013:               Questions of Home, Aspex Gallery, Portsmouth

2013:               Installation & paper, Re-Contested Sites/Sights, TRAIN research centre, UAL, London

2013:               The Brixton Exchange, London (co-organised conference)

2012:               Conference Paper for Migration, Memory and Place, University of Copenhagen, Denmark

2012:               Conference Paper for Practice Makes Perfect, Swansea Metropolitan University, Wales

2012:               Lunchtime lecture, Bishopsgate Institute, London

2012:               Conference Paper for Unofficial Histories, Bishopsgate Institute, London

2012:               Installation, Contested Sites/Sights, TRAIN research centre, UAL (with Rebecca Beinart)

2011:               UCL Public Engagement Unit Arts & Humanities Symposium, UCL, London

2011:               Conference paper at Royal Geographical Society Annual International Conference

2011:               Artists Talk for Photoforum, Create Festival, Four Corners, London

2011:               Conference paper at The Archive and Jewish Migration, UCT, South Africa

2011:               Creative Collaborations: Artists and the Public, Modern Art Oxford

2010:               Artists Talk, Artlink, Hull

2010:               Artists Talk, OVADA Gallery, Oxford

2008 & 09:       Artist Educator presentation, 4th Plinth, London

Education

2022:               HEA Fellowship, Advance HE

2010-2019:      PhD by Design, The Bartlett, University College London

2005-2006:      MA Development Practices (Distinction), Oxford Brookes University

2000-2004:      Diploma in Architecture, Oxford Brookes University

1995-1998:      BSc Architecture, The Bartlett, University College London

Employment

2019-present:   Board Member, Ixia (public art think tank) - voluntary role

2012-ongoing:  Senior Lecturer, Architecture, University of Brighton

2012:               Visiting Lecturer, Interior Architecture, University of Hertfordshire

2011-2012:      Visiting Lecturer, Architecture, University of Brighton

2008-10:          Sessional Lecturer, University of West London (formerly Thames Valley University)

2004-present:  Artist (self-employed)  

Publications:

2022:                ‘A Taste of Salt/Goute Sel: Artistic Collaboration at the Ghetto Biennale’, Katy Beinart & Mabelle Williams, Wasafiri, Volume 37, Issue 3, September 2022

2022:                Acts of Transfer, Katy Beinart & Lizzie Lloyd, Social Art Publications.

2020:                Don’t Look Back: The challenges of public art and meanings of authenticity in heritage contexts’ in Public Art Dialogue, Vol. 10 Issue 2, 2020, pp.161-183

2020:                Salted Earth: 4 Journeys, Feast Journal, Online (February 2020)

2019:               ‘Khlebosolny/Bread and Salt: a time-travelling journey to Eastern Europe (and back)’, Mobile Culture Studies 4: Artistic representations of Migration and mobility

2019:               ‘The fabric of faith: a reflection on creative arts practice research’ by Claire Dwyer, Nazneen Ahmed, and Katy Beinart in Studying Diversity, Migration and Urban Multiculture Convivial Tools for Research and Practice, Ed. Mette Berg and Magdalena Nowicka (UCL Press, 2019)

2018:               ‘My Life is but a weaving’: embroidering geographies of faith and place by Claire Dwyer, Nazneen Ahmed, and Katy Beinart in Cultural Geographies

2018:               My Life is But a Weaving exhibition catalogue/book, Katy Beinart, Claire Dwyer and Nazneen Ahmed, 2018.

2018:               ‘Salted earth: salt-making as a poetics of mobility and place.’ In Rurality Reimagined (Applied Research + Design, 2018)

2017:               Figure Ground Public Art Road Trip book and website, funded by Arts Council England

2015:               Lighting the Touchpaper: Public Art as situation or spectacle. Public Art Now, April 2015

2015:               'Origination: Journeying In The Footsteps Of Our Ancestors.' In Sacred Mobilities: Journeys of Belief and Belonging. Ed. Avril Maddrell, Alan Terry & Tim Gale (Ashgate, 2015)??

2014:               Saltfish: A Conversation. With Sam Barton. Alter Magazine, Issue 1, 2014

2014:               'Reading between the lines: artistic approaches to the family archive’. The Archive and Jewish Migration, Special Issue of Jewish Culture and History (May 2014 online)

2014:               'Becoming and Disappearing: Between Art, Architecture and Research', Arts and                                            Humanities in Higher Education (Dec 2013 online)