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Artist statement

Working with living sculpture and installation, I create spaces and moments which connect the smallest, poetic actions of plants with precarious issues facing humanity. My background as an activist and campaigner on social and environmental justice issues informs my thinking and making. My practice centres on the afterlife of the discarded and is rooted in small acts of reparation - sewing scraps together, watering fragile seedlings and nurturing the regenerative power of composting from waste materials.

Exhibitions and screenings

2025

New Contemporaries, ICA, London

DON'T LOOK Projects, Los Angeles

2024

Acts of Union, Netil House, London

Now 2024, Gerald Moore Gallery, London

Minor Attractions, The Mandrake Hotel, London

New Contemporaries, KARST, Plymouth

Stillness in Movement, Bermondsey Project Space, London

A Landscape of Chance, SLQS Gallery, London

Entanglements and Denials, Tang Museum, Dongguan, China

Life Boat, APT Gallery, London

2023

The London Group Open, Copeland Gallery, London

All Sides of Me, The Crypt Gallery, London

The London Group at Scarborough, Old Parcels Office, Westborough

Taste the Difference, 50 Celebration Avenue, London

Bottleneck, Hart's Lane Gallery, London

2022

Now Introducing 2022, Studio West, London

Hypha Presents, 56 Conduit St, London

Present Tense, Deptford X, London

City Takeover, The Attenborough Centre, Leicester

Catch Your Breath, Morley Gallery, London

Territoil, Art Hub Gallery, Deptford, London

Futures_after, the old Peacocks store, Catford, London

The London Group Winter Exhibition, online: http://onlinegallery.thelondongroup.com/

2021

ONHOLD, Goldsmiths MFA Studios, Deptford, London

The London Group Xmas Exhibition, The Cello Factory, London

The State of Things, Küefer-Martis-Huus, Liechtenstein

In Plain Sight, Thelma Hulbert Gallery, Honiton

In The Dark, BEING THERE, Crypt of St John's Waterloo, London

Virtual II, gowithYamo Group Exhibition, online: https://www.gowithyamo.com/blog/gowithyamo-virtual-ii

Something from Nothing, Kato Wong Gallery, online: https://www.katowonggallery.com/gallery

2020

You Are Here, curated by @katmapped, online: https://katmapped.org/2020-show%3A-you-are-here

The London Group Annual, online: http://annual.thelondongroup.com

Wish You/We Were Here/There,  online: 

http://www.thelondongroup.com/wish-you-we-were-here-there/

Housebound, Chapel Arts Studios, online: http://www.chapelartsstudios.co.uk/housebound/ and instagram @houseboundart

gowithYamo Group Exhibition, 253 Hoxton Art Project Space, London, and online: https://www.gowithyamo.com/blog/the-gowithyamo-group-exhibition/ 

ISOLATION, online: http://www.thelondongroup.com/isolation/ and instagram @thelondongroup

Signature Art Prize Finalists Exhibition, Bankside Hotel, London

2019

London Group Open, The Cello Factory, London

2018

SHOWCASE, OXO Gallery, London

Soundstripes II, Northern Quarter, Huddersfield

Becoming Image: Medicine and the Algorithmic Gaze, UCL, London

Awards and Residencies

2025

Winner of the Gilbert Bayes Award

2024

Awarded the Gilbert Bayes Trust Scholarship

2023

2022

Shortlisted for New Contemporaries

Selected for New Contemporaries

Awarded Hypha Studios residency in the old Peacocks, Catford as part of Futures_after collective (funded by the Arts Council and selected by Margot Hellor, Director of South London Gallery)

2021

Shortlisted for New Contemporaries  (selected by Tai Shani (Turner Prize 2019), Michelle Williams Gamaker (Jarman Award 2020) and sculptor Hew Locke)

Selected artist for UKNA City Takeover 2021/22 

2020

Shortlisted for The Mother Art Prize  (selectors included Frances Morris, Director of Tate Modern and Eva Langret, Artistic Director of Frieze London)

Elected as a member of The London Group

Shortlisted for The New Emergence Art Prize 

Goldsmiths Academic Excellence Award

2019

Finalist for The Signature Art Prize  2019/20

Texts

2018

Capsula: A journey into the stomach of the machine, in Becoming Image: Medicine and the Algorithmic Gaze, Liz Orton (editor)

 © 2024 Beverley Duckworth. All rights reserved. No images to be reproduced without permission.

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