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Beverley Duckworth
Hold II, 2024
nylons, seedlings, glass, steel
H5.5 x W27 x D27 cm
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In the ‘Hold’ series by Beverley Duckworth, seedlings grown on nylons have been dry pressed and flattened between glass, referencing historical botanical traditions and alluding to our intimate bodily entanglements...
In the ‘Hold’ series by Beverley Duckworth, seedlings grown on nylons have been dry pressed and flattened between glass, referencing historical botanical traditions and alluding to our intimate bodily entanglements with synthetic and natural worlds.
Beverley Duckworth (b. UK) lives and works in London. Working with living sculpture and installation, Duckworth creates spaces and moments which connect the smallest, poetic actions of plants with precarious issues facing humanity. 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. Selected group exhibitions include: A Landscape of Chance, SLQS Gallery, London (2024); Entanglements and Denials, Tang Museum, Dongguan, China (2024), Life Boat, APT Gallery, London (2024), The London Group Open, Copeland Gallery, London (2023), All Sides of Me, The Crypt Gallery, London (2023), Now Introducing, Studio West, London (2022), Hypha Presents, 56 Conduit St, London (2022), UKNA City Takeover, The Attenborough Centre, Leicester (2022), The State of Things, Küefer-Martis-Huus, Liechtenstein (2021), In Plain Sight, Thelma Hulbert Gallery, Honiton (2021). Awarded the Gilbert Bayes Trust Award (2024). Selected artist UK New Artists City Takeover (2022).
Beverley Duckworth (b. UK) lives and works in London. Working with living sculpture and installation, Duckworth creates spaces and moments which connect the smallest, poetic actions of plants with precarious issues facing humanity. 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. Selected group exhibitions include: A Landscape of Chance, SLQS Gallery, London (2024); Entanglements and Denials, Tang Museum, Dongguan, China (2024), Life Boat, APT Gallery, London (2024), The London Group Open, Copeland Gallery, London (2023), All Sides of Me, The Crypt Gallery, London (2023), Now Introducing, Studio West, London (2022), Hypha Presents, 56 Conduit St, London (2022), UKNA City Takeover, The Attenborough Centre, Leicester (2022), The State of Things, Küefer-Martis-Huus, Liechtenstein (2021), In Plain Sight, Thelma Hulbert Gallery, Honiton (2021). Awarded the Gilbert Bayes Trust Award (2024). Selected artist UK New Artists City Takeover (2022).
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