Artist
Part of events on ArtRabbit in: Leeds
Beatrix Haxby is an interdisciplinary artist who has recently completed a graduate residency at East Street Arts and has exhibited at group shows such as Mayfair Art Weekend and D Contemporary. She is among the emerging wave of contemporary female surrealists whose rise is tallying with the rediscovery of historical surrealists such as Dorothea Tanning and Leonora Carrington. Her pieces are like cosmic vaults, overstimulated and thoroughly composed, infused with a bizarre depth of intimacy. Her surreal portrayals of imagined scenes seek to trouble and transform conceptions of gender, the muse and aesthetics. She is eager to revise the cultural script of the ‘tortured artiste’ crying into their cigarette - behold: power, precision, force. Haxby sculpts her physical form through calisthenics, a process she describes as ‘body architecture’.
Exhibitions and Events
2022