Amanda Beech
Nominated by: PILOT:1
Born: 1972
UK
Lives/works: UK
Statement
Amanda Beech produces artworks, writes and collaborates on curatorial projects in the UK and internationally. Centrally, she explores the relationship between democracy and violence in neo-liberalism by scrutinising the force of rhetoric within narratives of freedom, which play out in philosophy, politics, literature and popular culture.
Recent Exhibitions (Download full CV here)
2006-2007 Solo exhibit. Falk MOT Gallery London part of “An Exhibition in Three Parts” curated by Chris Hammond. With publication.
2007 One Way Street, Sheppard Gallery, Reno, Nevada, USA, with Pierre Bismuth, Mark leckey, Roman Vassuer, Jaspar Joseph-Lester. Curated by Beech, Joseph-Lester and Matthew Poole.
2007 The Dream of Putrefaction, Metropole Gallery, Folkestone, Kent and Fieldgate Gallery, London. Group exhibit. Curated by Dereck Harris.
2006 Little Private Governments, University Gallery, University of Essex. Co-curated with Matthew Poole. Including Jenny Holzer, Pil and Galia Kollectiv, Martin Kippenberger, Roman Vasseur, Amanda Beech. Catalogue available.
2005-6 Episode, Co-curated project with J.J. Lester and M Poole. Temporarycontemporary Gallery, London, Leeds Met Gallery, Leeds and South Florida Arts Centre, Miami, USA. Including Julie Henry, Mike Marshall, Giles Perry. With Symposia. Book due May 2007 with new writing by TJ Demos, Margaret Iverson, Suhail Malik, Andrea Phillips, Sharon Kivland.
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