Exhibition
Beca Beeby | Maker in Focus
24 Feb 2014 – 5 Apr 2014
Event times
11am - 5pm | Tuesdays - Sundays | Open Bank Holiday Mondays
Cost of entry
Free Admission
Address
- Gloucester Place
- Maritime Quarter
- Swansea
- SA1 1TY
- United Kingdom
About
Beca Beeby is based in South Wales and in 2009 began working with honeybees, which enabled her to experiment and discover ways to coerce these incredible creatures to build to her needs. Beekeeping is highly seasonal; it has taken time and patience allowing work at times to literally grow organically before Beca can continue with my part. This enabled her to produce work which portrays the intricate beauty of the comb inside a honeybee hive; the natural beauty resulting from organic growth and a need for economy and strength.Beca's work tends to sit precariously on that faint, wobbly line between 'Art' and 'Craft'. My inspiration stems from many places: livestock and plant life found in my natural environment, particularly the tiny details and the curl of a new shoot, the structure of a seedpod and the hipbones of a dairy cow. Beca's concerns over intensive farming and human impact on the environment also influence what she does. The work is not a direct interpretation of what she sees, more of an impression, a result of my own interpretation; it can imply a force, a pushing.
Having worked predominantly in cast iron and forged steel for the past sixteen years, more recent work has developed from considering a smaller scale, resulting in more delicate pieces built up in copper; graphite; porcelain.