Izzie Beirne
Izzie Beirne (b.1996) is a UK, London based artist from Newcastle Upon Tyne. Beirne studied her BA (Hons) Fine Art at Leeds Arts University (2019) and her MFA in Fine Art from Goldsmiths University in London (2023).
Beirne primarily works with painting alongside ceramics, creating works which deal with feminist themes of women’s safety, sexual violence and trauma, internalised punishment and then recovery and a reclamation of pleasure. Beirne’s process begins by making videos or researching films that deal with the subjects she is exploring. From these films Beirne finds stills to transform into paintings, creating canvases with frenzied movements, blur and variety of focus. Beirne uses ceramics to add to the level of discomfort permeating the work, creating pieces that reference decay, fragility and the grotesque. Ceramic worms, maggots and plates of fruit and cream create an uneasy dialogue with the visceral cinematic paintings. This push and pull in the works capture the themes in her practice which are messy, gut wrenching and hard to digest.
Awards
Almacantar Award Winner 2023
Shortlisted Global Design Graduate Show 2023
Shortlisted Acme Award 2023
Shortlisted Robert Walters Prize 2023
Exhibitions
Upcoming: Food as Origin - Twilight Contemporary, London - September/October 2024
A Feast For The Eyes - Guts Gallery, London - July 2024
CAN Art Fair - Contemporary Art Now, Ibiza - June 2024
South Open 2 - OHSH, London - April 2024
Serving Gluttony - Unit, London - April 2024
Visceral - Plan X, Milano - March 2024
Buffer 2 - Guts Gallery, London - November 2023
Anamnesis - Maximillian Wolfgang Gallery, London - September to November 2023
Goldsmiths MFA Degree show - Goldsmiths, London - July 2023
Depford X - Goldsmiths, London - September 2022
Territoil - ArtHub, London - May 2022
OnHold - Goldsmiths, London - February 2022
Let Us Eat Cake - Pineapple Black, Middlesbrough - July 2021
New Tenants - Online - March 2021
Cultivate Presents (And With Good) Reason - Online - June 2020
Uncanny Characters - The Bowery, Leeds - December - January 2019 - 2020
Free Range – The Old Truman Brewery, London – July 2019
Blinked – Leeds Arts University, Leeds – June 2019
Girls Shitting Money in the Wind – Open Source Arts, Leeds – May 2019
Female Gaze – Old Red Bus Station, Leeds – March 2019
Two – Wharf Chambers, Leeds – May 2018
Y Not? – Wharf Chambers, Leeds – May 2017
Education
MFA Fine Art - Goldsmiths University (2021-2023)
BA Fine Art – Leeds Arts University (2019)
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