Beau W Beakhouse
is an artist based in Cardiff. He/they also run curatorial, radio and print project LUMIN and has 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 Cittadellarte (Biella), g39’s Jerwood UNITe, 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. They have an upcoming residencies with Tangent Projects (Barcelona) and a solo exhibition with Arcade Campfa.
Recent Solo exhibition
2021
‘it resonates like spalting wood’ with Sadia Pineda Hameed, Arcade Campfa, Cardiff
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
2021
Jerwood UNITe Open Studios, g39, Cardiff
2020
Made in Roath Open, g39, Cardiff
‘reframing bokani’, National Museum Wales
2019
Communion, SHIFT, Cardiff
Residencies and Performances
‘Borrow Tomorrow’, Mosaic Rooms, London
Experimentica Presents, Chapter, Cardiff
Tangent Projects residency, Barcelona
2021
UNIDEE residency, Cittadellarte - Fondazione Pistoletto, Biella
Jerwood UNITe residency, g39, Cardiff
Catalyst Arts Residency, Catalyst Arts, Belfast
2020
Hinterlands residency, Peak Cymru, Wales
2019
A New Mecca, Gentle/Radical, Cardiff
‘Intersection and Convergence’ residency, Made in Roath 1a Inverness Place, Cardiff
‘Communion’, curatorial residency, SHIFT, Cardiff
2018
Rabble Studios 6 month residency, Creative Cardiff, Cardiff University, Cardiff
LUMIN Library, Three Doors Up, Cardiff
Selected publication
2021
’Steal Books, New Libraries’ poster, In Words, In Action, In Connection, MOSTYN
Groundwork for Embedded Practice, UNIDEE zine
‘Shared Libraries’, Takeaway
‘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 (curatorial, radio and print project)
Host of LUMIN RADIO