A reckoning, a species in transition, a weather pain, an eyebrow raised, in vain, a fear in a face, a decision in the dark, a shadow, a long now, a cold front, an icy fang, an ear burning, a side-eye, a canine tooth, a pack of dogs, a brute, a minute newt, an amphibian’s spiritual ascension, a shadow of a doubt, a hunting, a haunting, a reckoning awaiting, a magical thought, a no body, an intellectual overdose, an inside, out, a pig’s ear, a slapping of matter against matter, a knee hitting the ground, a sound of bodies breaking into each other, microscopically, an infinite merging, a bending towards, a flame, a nobody squatting in the quantum, a reckoning awakening, a being, a being beside itself, being besides yourself, awake, a vague pain, a weather vane, a season drifting out of place, an eye in a storm, a weathered feature, an ice cube drowning itself, a puddle, a body of water, a liquid limb, a wake, a resonance, a personal myth, a clue in a cloud, a collective sigh, a long distance call, a coincidence, a live event, a tense, a present inside a ribcage, a hoof, a beak out of sync, a heart out of time, aloof, a fated sky, an air, an ear telling an eye where to look, a lie flying high, a downwind stink, a disgusting thought, a merging with the infinite, a teetering life, a body breaking, a being besides itself, a being out of time, a dead reckoning.
Beth Kettel’s work encompasses sculpture, moving-image, writing, sound and performance. For her exhibition at Eastside Projects she is developing a new sculptural installation with reactive materials, which will explore internal and external navigation and the ways our internal worlds are communicated, translated and distorted externally and vice versa.
This work has been informed by recent residencies at Launchpad LaB, Champagne-Mouton, France and Fieldwork, Wales 2023. Recent solo exhibitions & commissions include: Baseline Drift, Art Night, London; A Bang…, Art & Screen Network, ICA, London; The Sound of Somebody Changing Their Mind, Phoenix, Leicester; A Mutual Influence, Green Man Festival, Wales. Group exhibitions & performances include: GIBCA, Sweden; Jerwood Space, London; The Lowry, Salford; Cob Gallery, London; TACO, London; Two Queens, Leicester; Tŷ Pawb, Wrexham; Copperfield Gallery, London. Residencies include: Writer-In-Residence at Nottingham Contemporary 2022; Delfina Foundation 2022; NearNow Studio Fellow at Broadway Cinema 2024. Beth was nominated for Kleinwort Hambros Emerging Artist Prize 2021. Press includes: Artist to Watch, Contemporary Arts Society, Mousse Magazine, This Is Tomorrow.
Beth’s show is this year’s EOP members project. Beth has been an EOP member since 2010.