Izzie Beirne, You rely on me, don’t you forget, Oil on Canvas, 90 x 210 cm
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. From these films Beirne finds stills to transform into paintings, creating canvases with frenzied movements, blur and variety of focus. Beirne uses ceramics to add to the level of discomfort permeating the work, creating pieces that reference decay, fragility and the grotesque. Ceramic 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.
Work:
Izzie Beirne, You can’t make me wait, Oil on Canvas, 190 x 40 cm
Izzie Beirne, Thanks to your generosity it is dark everywhere, Oil on Canvas, 80 x 55 cm
Izzie Beirne, You rely on me, don’t you forget, Oil on Canvas, 90 x 210 cm
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