Anya Beaumont

Anya Beaumont

Corsham, Wiltshire, United Kingdom

About Anya Beaumont

My work is inspired by the environment I am commissioned or choose to work from. I choose contrasting elements I see in the architecture and find a way of bringing them together in surprising yet often beautiful ways. Much of my work is made from paper I have collected from the area I am working in, and so traces of the people and everyday goings on of the pace may be revealed through this. I also use photography as a further development in my practice and take photographs of my delicate paper structures back out on the streets that inspired them. i then have multiple archival quality giclee prints made them which I cut into and build into new sculptural works.

Education:

2004 Middlesex University - MA Fine Art Theory & Practice (Distinction)
1993 Manchester Metropolitan University -BA (Hons) Fine Art (Sculpture)
1990 Dewsbury College -Foundation Diploma in Art and Design

Events:

Exhibition and installation at Corsham Town Hall as part of The Peacock Art Trail, a well established visual arts event in Wiltshire, UK.
I jointly curated a show as part of Fringe Arts Bath 2017. 'The Obsessive Compulsive Practice' ran May 26 June 11, at 94 Walcot Street, Bath.

Site Responsive Art Works in the Public Realm

2014 Site-responsive paper installation for the Electrician’s Shop Foyer at Trinity Buoy Wharf
2015 ‘Trinity’ Site-responsive steel relief sculpture at Trinity Buoy Wharf.
Both works commissioned by The Trinity Buoy Wharf Trust.
2015 ‘12 Trees’ Site-responsive installation made from recycled hard plastics with the school children of Coppetts Wood Primary School.
2012 ‘Mapping Muswell – An N10 Paper Project’ A site-specific map work at Muswell Hill Library. Supported by funding from the National Lottery through Arts Council England.
2011 ‘Paper Trail (100,000 Cuts)’ A site-specific map work for artsdepot, North London.
2009 - 2011 Artist in Residence for Sculpture at Middlesex University

Exhibitions:

Solo Exhibitions

2015 ‘The View From Here’, artsdepot, North Finchley, London.
2014 Site Responsive photographic prints, Trinity Buoy Wharf.
2013 ‘Re-vision’, the Local Gallery, Muswell Hill, London.
2012 – Feb 2013 Kilburn Library, End of Residency show.
2011 ‘Steel and Paper’, Middlesex University.

Selected Group Exhibitions
2017 2 person Exhibition at The Roper Gallery, Bath - Hopeful Monsters showing new and recent works by Anya Beaumont and Clare Winnan.
2017 The Obsessive Compulsive Practice, part of Fringe Arts Bath, curated by Anya Beaumont and Clare Winnan
2017 Bath Society of Artists Annual Open Exhibition, Victoria Gallery, Bath
2016 Find Another Bath at 44ad Gallery, Bath
2016 The RWA 164th Open Exhibition, Bristol
2016 'Where Is Your Humanity' at 44ad Gallery,Bath
2016 The Bath Open Art Prize at 44ad Gallery, Bath
2016 'Here Comes the Flood' curated by Dr Daniel Barnes, Euroart
2016 'Utopia:Dystopia' Walcot Chapel, Bath part of FAB
2016 'Nautical Perspectives' curated by Plastic Propaganda at Katharine Docks
2016 ‘The Waiting Room’ at 44ad Gallery Bath in conjunction with Bath University
2015 The Pound Arts Open, Corsham, Wiltshire
2014 “Out of The Box”, group show at No Format Gallery, Greenwhich, 22 November – 22 December
2014 Art Apart Art Fair, International art fair 1st London Edition, The Town Hall Hotel, Bethnal Green
2012 ‘Deep Purple’ Group show at Cultivate, Vyner Street, London