Sarah Beddington

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Sarah Beddington (born 1964) is a British artist[ citation needed ] and filmmaker based in London.

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Beddington was born in Winchester and studied at the City and Guilds of London Art School and at Central St Martins College. [1] Beddington's work investigates the intersection between the historical and the contemporary, often in relation to journeys and migration. Beddington is interested in traces in the landscape, the power of the collective voice and walking as a means of affirming presence. Her works in film and video, as well as in fragile or ephemeral media such as etched glass and silverpoint drawing, present a minutely scrutinised sense of place that offer a poetic reading of the overlap between the historical, the mythical and the everyday, potentially opening up a space to future scenarios.

Beddington's work has been shown in many museums, galleries and film festivals including: City States, Liverpool Biennale; Les Rencontres Internationales, Centre Pompidou, Paris and Reina Sofia Museum, Madrid; Eastern Standards: Western Artists in China, MASS MoCA, USA; FIDMarseille International Film Festival; LOOP film and video festival, Angels Gallery, Barcelona; Vanishing Point, Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, Ohio. She has recently been shortlisted for the Artangel Open Commission and the Paul Hamlyn Foundation award in the UK and received a Bloomberg LP special commission in 2008. She had a research residency in 2014 at the Henry Moore Institute in Leeds and previous artistic residencies include International Studio and Curatorial Program (ISCP, 2002–2003) and Cité des Arts in Paris (2009–2010).

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions

Crossing, curated by Tania Duvergne, Dumbo Arts Center (DAC), New York [2]

Selected group exhibitions and film screenings

Sheffield Fringe, Sheffield Documentary Film Festival
FIDLab, FIDMarseille, Marseille
A travers un cercle de regards, Cité internationale des arts in Paris
The Other Shadow of the City, al Hoash Gallery, Jerusalem
Sarah Beddington, General Public, Berlin
RIWAQ Biennale, Ramallah, West Bank
Eastern Standards: Western Artists in China, curated by Susan Cross, MASS MoCA, USA
The Animal Gaze, London Metropolitan University, London
Re-Construction, curated by Ami Barak, YAB Bucharest Biennale, Bucharest
Map Games, Today Museum, Beijing, China; Birmingham City Art Museum, UK
AMBULANTE, Injerto, Gira de Documentales, Mexico City and touring
About Time, Nordjyllands Kunstmuseum, Denmark
Nordic Video Festival, Sweden
The Experiment, Peekskill Project, Peekskill, New York
LOOP Video Festival, Galeria del Angels, Barcelona

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References

  1. David Buckman (2006). Artists in Britain Since 1945 Vol 1, A to L. Art Dictionaries Ltd. ISBN   0 953260 95 X.
  2. "Sarah Beddington | e-flux". www.e-flux.com. Retrieved 10 February 2016.
  3. Iverson, Margaret (2001). Sarah Beddington, Forty Nights. London: Hales Gallery. ISBN   1870282272.
  4. "SECRET AGENT". Guest Projects. Retrieved 1 February 2016.
  5. Isé, Claudine (2005). Vanishing Point. Columbus, Ohio: Wexner Center for the Arts, Ohio State University. ISBN   1881390373.