Bethenie Carriaga
In Beth’s work, they reflect on home and growing up again and again and again. What does it mean to connect with the land when its stories are unfamiliar? How can these stories be re-imagined to find connection with the land? Beth creates paintings, prints, and collages to explore class envy and the experience of being an immigrant outside of the city. Their work touches on mutli-species entanglement, anthropomorphism, and alienation. Having immigrated from the Philippines to the UK as a child and growing up in a town near Bristol, which is predominantly white, they reflect on the lack of non-white immigrants, the class divides, the sometimes fierce, sometimes subtle national pride tied to green space, and the curiosity—amongst other funny feelings—that emerges from exclusion.
Education
2023-2024 MSc Visual, Material, Museum Anthropology, Oxford University, UK
2019-2023: BA International and Public Affairs Brown University, Providence RI US
Selected Exhibitions
2024 Entranced Essence, RuptureXIBIT Gallery, London
In The Corner of My Eye, KOPPEL Collective with Fresh Salad Art, London
Printmaking Magic, Oxfordshire Museum, Woodstock
Shapes and Things, All is Joy Studios, London
Open Wide, OPEN205 Gallery, London