Beau W Beakhouse
is an artist, filmmaker and independent curator based in Cardiff. He also runs curatorial, radio and print project LUMIN and has a collaborative practice with Sadia Pineda Hameed. His 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. He is drawn to relation, intersection and convergence, and his practice is concerned with creating alternative spaces of dialogue and collective methods of working.He has worked with Peak Cymru, MOSTYN, Gentle/Radical, Literature Wales, Where I’m Coming From, SHIFT, Made in Roath, g39, The Welsh Agenda, Wales Millenium Centre and others. He has upcoming residencies with Tangent Projects (Barcelona), Cittadellarte (Biella) and g39 (Cardiff) and a forthcoming solo exhibition with Arcade Campfa. CV below.
Recent Solo exhibition
2021
it resonates like spalting wood with Sadia Pineda Hameed, Arcade/Campfa, Cardiff (forthcoming)
2020
Local 37, MOSTYN, Llandudno (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
2020
g39 Open Studios (forthcoming)
Made in Roath Open, g39, Cardiff
reframing bokani, National Museum Wales
2019
Communion, SHIFT, Cardiff
Residencies and Performances
2021
UNIDEE, Cittadellarte, Biella (forthcoming)
it resonates performance, Experimentica Presents (forthcoming)
Tangent Projects, Barcelona (forthcoming)
Jerwood UNITe, g39, Cardiff (forthcoming)
2020
Hinterlands, Peak Cymru, Wales
2019
A New Mecca, Gentle/Radical, Cardiff
Intersection and Convergence, Made in Roath, 1a Inverness
Communion, curatorial residency, SHIFT, Cardiff
2018
Rabble Studios 6 month residency, Creative Cardiff, Cardiff University, Cardiff
LUMIN Library, Arcade/Campfa (Three Doors Up), Cardiff
Selected publication
2021
‘Spalting Wood’, The Bodgers Gazette
‘Undefining the Artist’, Wales Arts Review
2020
‘Redefining Resilience in Wales’ Literary Scene’, The Welsh Agenda
‘Ignominious Archives: Roberto Bolaño & Infrarealism’, Porridge Magazine issue 4
2019
Four poems, Theta Wave
‘The Private Study and Interior Architecture’, Burning House Press
‘The space between texts’, LUMIN Journal 2
‘high balcony (com)’, Projectionists Playground 9
Other
Co-founder, LUMIN (arts publishing and curatorial project), 2017 - present
Host of LUMIN RADIO 2017 - present
Mentoring sessions with Shiri Shalmy (Anti-University), David Trigg (Frieze), Anthony Shapland (g39)