Projects

NASTJA SÄDE RÖNKKÖ
salt in our blood, in our sweat, in our tears

Exhibition: 7 September- 23 March 2025
Below Zero Finnish Art Prize Exhibition at Serlachius Museums, Mänttä, Finland

15 May – 6 July 2024

Wednesday–Saturday, 12-5pm

British artists Simon Bedwell and Stephen Sutcliffe collaborate in an exhibition of new ceramics, video and painting.

1–16 March 2024

‘On the Move: Mobile Phones and the Tapestry of Home’ emphasises the role of mobile phones as symbolic links connecting individuals to their origins.

Exhibition: 22 July – 12 August 2023

Exploring the recuperation of cultural memory, Ioana Marinescu’s project works with the destruction of ancient Pompeii caused by the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 AD, alongside events in 1980s Bucharest, when a historic residential quarter of the city was razed to make way for Ceaușescu’s Palace of the Parliament or ‘People’s Palace’.

THE WILD ESCAPE
Spring – Autumn 2023
Autumn workshops continue as part of The Wild Escape –  the largest ever collaboration between museums and galleries with schools and families – with Environmental Artist in Residence Phoebe Collings-James.

NASTJA SÄDE RÖNKKÖ
Residency: 23 January – 15 March

Exhibition: 16 March – 6 May 2023 
Below Zero Finnish Art Prize UK Residency & Exhibition

Beaconsfield Commissions: Below Zero Finnish Art Award 2025

2025 Winner announced!

SYSTEMATIC PERIPHERALISM
8 October – 3 December 2022

A new commission of procedural sonic installations responding to Beaconsfield’s two main gallery spaces

Monica Sjöö The time is NOW and it is overdue!
11 June – 10 September 2022

Controversial paintings by ecofeminist artist and activist Monica Sjöö (1938-2005) animated by performances, reading groups, films and symposia led by contemporary artists and writers including Sally Pomme Clayton, Katy Deepwell, Rachel Fallon, Caitlin Fleming, Rachel Garfield, Una Hamilton Helle, Minna Haukka, Harriet Hill, Sam Hodge, Islaja, Annie Johnston, Kara Keeling, Alexandra Kokoli, Kristin Luke, Nad Ma, Bindu Mehra, Liz Murray, Maggie Parks, Fran Painter Fleming, Linda Persson, Raju Rage, Anne Robinson, Anita Slater, Tansy Spinks, Atau Tanaka, Tears|Ov, Rupert White, Linsey Young.

SINK _VESSEL
16 February – 7 May 2022

Two audio tracks sit side by side simultaneously playing – physically in Beaconsfield’s Arch space and Upper space, providing simple spaces of aural contemplation. SINK composed and recorded in Iran by Shahin Entezami aka TEGH. VESSEL composed and recorded in England by A.David Crawforth & Naomi Siderfin aka BAW.

BEACONSFIELD COMMISSIONS: BELOW ZERO FINNISH ART PRIZE 2023

Winner announced: Nastja Säde Rönkkö

RACHEL GARFIELD
10 November 2021 – 29 January 2022

The Struggle is a trilogy of three video works commissioned by Beaconsfield and developed with a range of partners. The three films, The Straggle (2012), Opening Up (2015) and A Glimpse (2019) are exhibited together for the first time, exploring the impact of familial interactions on the formation of subjectivity.

THE COLLECTIVE
10-13 November 2021

The Collective performs the final act of sharing its collection. Artists include Michael Armitage, Fiona Banner, Jemima Brown, Peter Doig, Bobby Dowler, Tracy Emin, David Goldblatt, Joy Gregory, Paul McCarthy, Frances Richardson.

17 July – 6 November 2021

B_T6 throws painting into the metaverse of immersive technologies in a collaboration between Jin Han Lee, artsXR and Beaconsfield to test and demystify aspects of extended realities.

IOANA MARINESCU
In residence 23 March – 9 April 2021

Site-specific experiments with light projections and performance.

SHAHIN ENTEZAMI AKA TEGH
Beacon_Transitions Online 2021

One of the most exciting electronic sound artists in Iran, Shahin Entezami aka Tegh, offers a personal narrative of the global pandemic. Translating the stress and dark thoughts associated with his own experience of contracting Covid19, this sound work takes its pace from events happening without preface, particularly as experienced in his home city of Tehran.

ANDREW PIERRE HART
Beacon_Transitions Online 2021

Utilising the decolonising techniques he has been developing as teaching methodology, Andrew Hart’s workshop programme will discuss institutional structures through improvisatory ideas of cross-modality.

AN ALL-ACCESS ONLINE EXHIBITION CELEBRATING THE WORKS OF YOUNG ARTISTS SHAPING THE FUTURE OF PHOTOGRAPHY.

Online from 19 November 2020 – 21 April 2021