About
Biography
Beth Waite (b. 1999, Darlington) is an interdisciplinary artist based in Leeds, UK. Her practice is rooted in her experience as a woman, linked to a larger shared experience of the feminine, its histories and its mysticism. Waite's work facilitates a connection between the physical and spiritual through feminist structures, ritual and performance. These ideas are materialised through film, sculpture, performance and photography; working with mediums which reflect and facilitate this contextual basis. Sculptures act as props or costumes, participants as performers and performance as video, and are all of equal value. She explores the feminine away from, or in contention with, patriarchal violence and the male gaze through the natural world. Fantastical narratives act as a vehicle to create a separate and fictional space, to wield the feminine energy that makes us ‘other’. The nature of her practice begins with her own experience as a woman, whilst drawing on spiritual and mythic sources, locating the work not in one context, but giving space for connections to take place. Narratives within Waite's practice may be utopian, historical, fictional or other worldly; the work does not exist in complete reality nor fantasy, but the in- between: the home of the feminine soul.
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Education:
First Class Hons in BA Fine Art, University of Leeds
Distinction in Art Foundation Diploma, Queen Elizabeth Sixth Form College, Darlington
Exhibitions:
2025
'Kirkstall Art Trail', Kirkstall Abbey, Leeds
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2024
‘Celf Ar Waliau’, The Mill Gallery, Leeds
‘Leeds Summer Group Show’, Leeds Playhouse, Leeds
‘Assembly House Annual’, The Attic, Leeds
‘Rites’, Hyde Park Book Club, Leeds
‘Kirkstall Art Trail’, Kirkstall Abbey, Leeds
‘Here Comes The Sun’, Assembly House, Leeds
2023
‘Leeds Artists Show’, Leeds Art Gallery, Leeds
‘Collective Unconscious: An Assembly House Showcase’, The Attic at Seagulls, Leeds
‘International Women’s Day’, Left Bank, Leeds
2022
‘The Ingram Prize’, Unit 1 Gallery and Workshop, London
‘Soul Vessels’, Assembly House, Leeds (SOLO)
‘Ones to Watch’, Sunnybank Mills, Leeds
‘Art on a Postcard: International Women’s Day Auction’, The Bomb Factory South, London
‘Put Your Feet Up’, Hyde Park Art Club, Leeds
2021
'New Contemporaries 2021’, South London Gallery, London and Firstsite, Colchester
‘Fickle Spaces’, School of Fine Art, History of Art and Cultural Studies, Leeds
Awards:
2022 Shortlisted for The Ingram Prize, The Ingram Collection
2021 The Alan Mohun Memorial Prize, University of Leeds
2021 Berkofsky Arts Award, University of Leeds
Publications and Networks:
2022 Sculpture Network, Yorkshire Sculpture International
2021 ‘New Graduates 2021 Edition’, TSDAP
