Keron Beattie

Short CV:

Keron Beattie has a First Class BA (Hons) Degree in Contemporary Art and Design (2016) and an MA Fine Art with Distinction (2018) from NUA.He was awarded the Fairhurst Gallery Prize for his work MA work and was selected for the annual MA and Post Graduate Contemporary Exhibition at the Atkinson Gallery in Somerset and the Federation of British Artists Futures19 exhibition at the Mall Galleries in London. Since graduating his work has been exhibited regularly in East Anglia and nationally and his work is held in individual and NUA’s own university collection.

Keron continues his exploration of connection, re-connection and the tension which can exist when the connection is fragile or held in light balance.

My work is concerned with fragmentation, remaking, re-connection and wholeness and the potential of materials to interact, change and transform particularly in response to external forces such as heat or pressure. Working in this way brings into my work as an artist my experiences of working as a mediator within areas of conflict and disagreement. It is also my response, as an artist, to a world which feels increasingly fragmented and damaged and through which I create a hope of order, or at least briefly held chaos.