Izzie Beirne

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Izzie Beirne (b.1996) is a UK, London based artist from Newcastle Upon Tyne. Beirne studied her BA (Hons) Fine Art at Leeds Arts University (2019) and her MFA in Fine Art from Goldsmiths University in London (2023). Beirne has exhibited at Plan X Gallery, Guts Gallery, Unit London and OHSH Projects amongst others. Beirne won the Almacantar Award for her work in the postgraduate degree show (2023) and was shortlisted for the Acme Award and Global Design Graduate Show.

 

Beirne primarily works with painting alongside ceramics, creating works which deal with feminist themes of women’s safety, sexual violence and trauma, internalised punishment and then recovery and a reclamation of pleasure. Beirne’s process begins by making videos or researching films that deal with the subjects she is exploring, for example ‘The Cook the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover’ by Peter Greenaway. From these films Beirne finds stills to transform into paintings, creating canvases with frenzied movements, blur and variety of focus referencing the language of cinema. The paintings can simultaneously be ethereal and otherworldly contrasted with the sinister in the cropping of imagery, large hands caught in motion and separated from their bodies. Beirne uses ceramics to add to the level of discomfort permeating the work, creating pieces that reference decay, fragility and the grotesque. Ceramic rats, worms, maggots and plates of fruit and cream create an uneasy dialogue with the visceral cinematic paintings. This push and pull in the works capture the themes in her practice which are messy, gut wrenching and hard to digest.

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B. Newcastle Upon Tyne. Lives and works in London.

 

Education

2021-2023 Goldsmiths University of London, MFA Fine Art

2016–2019 Leeds Arts University, BA Fine Art

 

Selected Group Exhibitions

2024 CAN Ibizia Art Fair, Contemporary Art Now, Ibiza

2024 South 2, OHSH, London

2024 Visceral (Duo Show), Plan X gallery, Milan

2024 Serving Gluttony, Unit London Gallery, London 

2023 BUFFER 2, Guts Gallery, London

2023 Anamnesis, Maximillian Wolfgang Gallery, London

2023 Raw, MFA Degree show, Goldsmiths University of London, London 2022 Deptford X, Goldsmiths University of London, London

2022 Territoil, ArtHub, London

2022 OnHold, Goldsmiths, London

2021 Let Us Eat Cake, Peacocks, Middlesborough

2019 Uncanny Characters, The Bowery, Leeds

2019 Free Range, The Truman Brewery, London

2019 Blinked, Leeds College of Art, Leeds

 

Awards and Nominations:

2023 Almacantar Award Winner