Beau W Beakhouse
is an artist based in Cardiff. He/they also run curatorial, radio and print project LUMIN and have a collaborative practice with Sadia Pineda Hameed. Their artistic practice works across film, text, woodcraft, sound and installation, and frequently returns to language, postcolonial theory, alternative pedagogies, non-institutional spaces, community projects and techniques of dreaming and speculative fiction. They are drawn to relation, intersection and convergence, and their practice is concerned with creating alternative spaces of dialogue and collective methods of working.They have shown work with The Mosaic Rooms, Chapter, Jerwood, Cittadellarte - Fondazione Pistoletto, Gentle/Radical, Arcade Campfa, Freelands, g39, Tangent Projects, Peak, MOSTYN, Literature Wales, Where I’m Coming From, SHIFT, Made in Roath, Wales Millenium Centre and others.
Recent Solo exhibition
2021
it resonates like spalting wood with Sadia Pineda Hameed, Arcade/Campfa
2020
Local 37, MOSTYN (online presentation) featuring curated contributions from Gantala Press, Jade Montserrat, Hanan Issa, the Welsh Arts Anti-Racist Union, Josèfa Ntjam and Isola Tong
Recent Group exhibition
2022
Thinking Green, Glynn Vivian
2021
The Mobile Feminist Library: In Words, In Action, In Connection, MOSTYN
g39 Open Studios, Jerwood UNITE
2020
Made in Roath Open, g39
reframing bokani, National Museum Wales
2019
Communion, SHIFT
Residencies
2022
g39 Fellowship Programme 2022-2024, Freelands Foundation
Casgleb, Platfform, Peak
2021
Cotangent, Tangent Projects Barcelona
UNIDEE, Cittadellarte - Fondazione Pistoletto
Jerwood UNITe, g39
Spring Online Residency, Catalyst Arts
2020
Hinterlands, Peak Cymru
2019
A New Mecca, Gentle/Radical
Intersection and Convergence, 1a Inverness
Communion, LUMIN, SHIFT
2018
Rabble Studios, Creative Cardiff and Cardiff University
LUMIN Library, Three Doors Up
Performances
2022
Local 37, LUMIN x Solstice Radio
2021
PAMPHLET BOMB, Experimentica, Chapter Arts
Borrow Tomorrow, The Mosaic Rooms
Speculation, g39 Jerwood UNITe
Selected projects, publications and talks
2022
Carve, hew, adze, bend, weave, grow, split, join, Abergavenny Station
Artist Talk, Ruskin School of Art, Oxford University
Skip / Ship, The Waterfront Museum
Editors’ Note, LUMIN Journal 4
2021
Cynfas, Guest Editor Issue 7, National Museum Wales
Land of My Mothers: Is it Time to Hear Wales’ Feminist Voice?, Elephant
Posters, MILPA residency, Eugeniusz Geppert Academy of Art and Design
Groundwork for Embedded Practice Zine, UNIDEE
Curatorial Study Group, Liverpool Biennial
DOUBLE, Takeaway #9
Collaging Futures Radical Radio, Sounding Out, Made in Roath
Spalting Wood, The Bodgers Gazette
Recovering Our Collective Awareness, Literature Wales and Civic Square Dream Fund
2020
‘Redefining Resilience in Wales’ Literary Scene’ The Welsh Agenda
Editors’ Note, LUMIN Journal 3
Telling Underrepresented Stories, Literature Wales
The Fight of Our Lives, Emergency Room
‘Ignominious Archives: Roberto Bolaño & Infrarealism’, Porridge Magazine
2019
‘The Impossible “No”’, WARP Library Dialogue, g39, Cardiff
2018
The Crypt + The Key, Gentle/Radical A New Mecca, Temple of Peace
Other
Co-founder, LUMIN (small press, curatorial and radio project)
2021
it resonates like spalting wood with Sadia Pineda Hameed, Arcade/Campfa
2020
Local 37, MOSTYN (online presentation) featuring curated contributions from Gantala Press, Jade Montserrat, Hanan Issa, the Welsh Arts Anti-Racist Union, Josèfa Ntjam and Isola Tong
Recent Group exhibition
2022
Thinking Green, Glynn Vivian
2021
The Mobile Feminist Library: In Words, In Action, In Connection, MOSTYN
g39 Open Studios, Jerwood UNITE
2020
Made in Roath Open, g39
reframing bokani, National Museum Wales
2019
Communion, SHIFT
Residencies
2022
g39 Fellowship Programme 2022-2024, Freelands Foundation
Casgleb, Platfform, Peak
2021
Cotangent, Tangent Projects Barcelona
UNIDEE, Cittadellarte - Fondazione Pistoletto
Jerwood UNITe, g39
Spring Online Residency, Catalyst Arts
2020
Hinterlands, Peak Cymru
2019
A New Mecca, Gentle/Radical
Intersection and Convergence, 1a Inverness
Communion, LUMIN, SHIFT
2018
Rabble Studios, Creative Cardiff and Cardiff University
LUMIN Library, Three Doors Up
Performances
2022
Local 37, LUMIN x Solstice Radio
2021
PAMPHLET BOMB, Experimentica, Chapter Arts
Borrow Tomorrow, The Mosaic Rooms
Speculation, g39 Jerwood UNITe
Selected projects, publications and talks
2022
Carve, hew, adze, bend, weave, grow, split, join, Abergavenny Station
Artist Talk, Ruskin School of Art, Oxford University
Skip / Ship, The Waterfront Museum
Editors’ Note, LUMIN Journal 4
2021
Cynfas, Guest Editor Issue 7, National Museum Wales
Land of My Mothers: Is it Time to Hear Wales’ Feminist Voice?, Elephant
Posters, MILPA residency, Eugeniusz Geppert Academy of Art and Design
Groundwork for Embedded Practice Zine, UNIDEE
Curatorial Study Group, Liverpool Biennial
DOUBLE, Takeaway #9
Collaging Futures Radical Radio, Sounding Out, Made in Roath
Spalting Wood, The Bodgers Gazette
Recovering Our Collective Awareness, Literature Wales and Civic Square Dream Fund
2020
‘Redefining Resilience in Wales’ Literary Scene’ The Welsh Agenda
Editors’ Note, LUMIN Journal 3
Telling Underrepresented Stories, Literature Wales
The Fight of Our Lives, Emergency Room
‘Ignominious Archives: Roberto Bolaño & Infrarealism’, Porridge Magazine
2019
‘The Impossible “No”’, WARP Library Dialogue, g39, Cardiff
2018
The Crypt + The Key, Gentle/Radical A New Mecca, Temple of Peace
Other
Co-founder, LUMIN (small press, curatorial and radio project)