Becky Beasley

b. Portsmouth, United Kingdom 1975
Lives and works in Hastings, England

Becky Beasley is a Paul Hamlyn Artist Award recipient (2018), Freelands Award Finalist (2023), and a Henry Moore Foundation Artist Award (2020). She’s an artist who lives and works in Hastings, England. Beasley’s “sculptures and photographs, as mute and minimal as they appear, unexpectedly open onto literary worlds.” (Christy Lange, Frieze Focus).

Beasley produces objects, photographs and texts which are typically informed by a deep engagement with literature — specifically in the past ten years certain writings of William Faulkner, Herman Melville, Bernard Malamud and Thomas Bernhard— and historical research. She is interested in the ethics of dialogue and how to inhabit the spaces, works and lives of others in tandem with ones own through art. Her practice is also concerned with spatial experience, in particularly the interior. She has developed a practice which explores the image and the limits of language. Through an abstracted grammar of the everyday, she sources personal experiences and literary references for moments of complexity and ambiguity.

She has participated in numerous international exhibitions, among them 80WSE Gallery (NYU), New York; South London Gallery, London; Serpentine Gallery Pavilion, London; Tate Britain, London; Stanley Picker Gallery, London; Whitworth, Manchester; Bluecoat, Liverpool; Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool; Whitechapel Gallery, London; Kunstverein Freiburg; Kunstverein Munich; Kunsthalle Bern.

She is Senior Lecturer in Fine Art at Goldsmiths College, London and is represented internationally by Galeria Plan B, Berlin and Francesca Minini Gallery, Milan. She received a late autism diagnosis in 2021 and is a passionate role model and advocate for autism understanding.

Beasley has taught and lectured on a wide range of BA and MA courses, including Northbrook College (2003-2005), Hastings College (2012-2015), and as a Visiting Lecturer at Slade School of Art (2022), Royal College of Art, Royal Academy, Leeds Beckett University, Sheffield Hallum University, Kingston University, Falmouth University (Photography), Goldsmiths College (MA), Cardiff Metropolitan University Department of Fine Art & Photography