Katy Beinart (b.1977, Birmingham) is a visual artist whose artworks include sculpture, installation, public art, textiles, film and performance.
After studying architecture, Katy has practiced as an artist since 2004, combining art and architecture to make artworks in the public realm as well as exhibiting in galleries, festivals and biennales in the UK and internationally. Recent projects include Acts of Transfer (with Lizzie Lloyd), funded by Arts Council England, 2 Metre Conversations (with John Edwards) commissioned by Phoenix Art Space, Hybrid, a permanent public art work in Braintree, Essex, and Saltways, commissioned by the Canal & River Trust. Recent exhibitions include Correspondences (with Rebecca Beinart) at the Jewish Museum London and Five Years London. She has worked in arts education for over 20 years and is currently an Artist in Residence at Towner Eastbourne’s Wriggle Room project.
She uses processes of participatory research and social practice to respond to the context and history of places and people, and her work examines relationships between heritage, history and memory, culture and environment, performance and ritual, migration and home. She draws on past and present material cultures in her projects, often adapting old technologies, found objects and everyday activities and rituals. Her work aims to reveal and question pasts, and ask how these belong in the present circumstances of places, and might shape their futures. In this sense she is interested in memory as a practice that is active and alive.