The Feminist Lecture Program in collaboration with SLQS Gallery is pleased to announce a new online series of Artist Talks. Our May guest is the artist Beverley Duckworth.
Hosted by FLP Director Luisa-Maria MacCormack in collaboration with Sarah Le Quang Sang from SLQS Gallery, this six-part series brings together contemporary female and non-binary artists working across painting, sculpture, performance and interdisciplinary practice whose work engages questions of embodiment, ecology, mythology, queer theory, disability, material experimentation and alternative ways of knowing - artists building practices that sit slightly outside established routes into the art world.
Each session offers an in-depth look at an artist’s work, process and influences. The series is open to an international audience of artists, students and anyone interested in contemporary art and is accessible via FLP’s pay-what-you-can ticket structure.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Beverley Duckworth (b. UK) lives and works in London. She was selected for the 8th John Ruskin Prize (2026), the recipient of a studio residency award with Sarabande Foundation (2025), won the Royal Society of Sculpture’s Gilbert Bayes Award (2025), was selected for New Contemporaries (2024) and UK New Artists City Takeover (2022). She graduated with an MFA from Goldsmiths University (2024). She has exhibited in the UK and internationally in the USA, China and Europe.
Working with living sculpture and installation, Beverley Duckworth creates spaces and moments which connect the smallest, poetic actions of plants with social and ecological precarity shaping contemporary life. Her background as an activist and campaigner on social and environmental justice issues informs her thinking and making. Her 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.