Bea Underwood
Bea Underwood is a multidisciplinary artist who works primarily with sculpture and installation. Her practice broadly centres around the combination of conflicting elements – particularly domestic forms with industrial ones. She often works with fabric and is interested in traditionally ‘feminine’ crafts like sewing and weaving, and their connection to notions of domesticity. Her recent work has centred around using the visual language of religious iconography to memorialise the personal.
‘Finisterre’ uses the triptych composition of shrines and altarpieces to elevate the memory of personal loss to the realm of the sacred. The installation is a reflection on our innate desire to memorialise, with a shift in focus to vulnerability rather than strength. ‘Finisterre’ explores the concept of the bed as the setting within which fragility and death often unfold.
Finisterre
100 x 150 x 40 cm
Wood, plaster, calico, polyester filling
Contact Bea Underwood
- b.j.r.underwood@gmail.com
- @beamakesart