Beverley Duckworth




Statement

Working with living sculpture and installation, I create spaces and moments which connect the smallest, poetic actions of plants with precarious issues facing humanity. My background as an activist and campaigner on social and environmental justice issues informs my thinking and making. My 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.
Biography

Beverley Duckworth lives and works in London. She has exhibited in the UK and internationally, with recent shows including Entanglements and Denials, Tang Museum, Dongguan, China (2024), A Landscape of Chance, SLQS Gallery, London (2024), Life Boat, APT Gallery, London (2024) and The London Group Open, Copeland Gallery, London (2023). Beverley was awarded the Gilbert Bayes Trust Award (2024), she was a selected artist for UK New Artists City Takeover (2022) and is an elected member of The London Group.



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Degree Show Location: Ben Pimlott Building, 6th floor


Residue, discarded clothes, edible seedlings, 300w x 480d x 140h cm, 2022
Residue (detail), discarded clothes, edible seedlings, 300w x 480d x 140h cm, 2022
Block, wheatgrass, dimensions variable, 2022
Block (detail), wheatgrass, dimensions variable, 2022
Stale, discarded clothes, pressed seedlings, found mirror, 50w x 250d x 10h cm, 2024
Stale (detail), discarded clothes, pressed seedlings, found mirror, 50w x 250d x 10h cm, 2024