Katy Beinart is an Artist, researcher, and educator whose work engages with the public realm and communities, and includes sculpture, installation, film, and performance. Her projects create spaces for debate about the past and future, and often relate to themes of heritage, migration, identity and place. She has been a board member of the public arts organization Ixia since 2019.
Recent commissions and projects include: Acts of Transfer (2021- with Lizzie Lloyd) about documenting and archiving socially engaged practices, with outcomes including a book: Acts of Transfer (Social Art Publications, 2022); Wriggle Room (2022-24) for Towner Eastbourne; Saltways (2017-18) for the Canal & River Trust, Fabric of Faith (2016-18) for UCL, Imagined Geographies (2015, with Rebecca Beinart) for the National Trust, and Arts Council funded project Brixton Museum (2015-16) as well as exhibitions and screenings at Brighton CCA (2022), Jewish Museum London (2021), Five Years London (2020), and Gunnersbury Park Museum (2018).
Katy is a Senior Lecturer in Architecture at the University of Brighton, and her recent publications include: ‘Don’t Look Back: The Challenges of Public Art and Meanings of Authenticity in Heritage Contexts,’ Public Art Dialogue, 2020, Vol 10, No. 2; ‘Khlebosolny/Bread and Salt: a time-travelling journey to Eastern Europe (and back)’, Mobile Culture Studies 4: : Artistic representations of Migration and mobility (2019), ‘My Life is but a weaving’: embroidering geographies of faith and place’, Cultural Geographies 2019, Vol. 26(1), (with Claire Dwyer and Nazneen Ahmed), ‘Salted earth: salt-making as a poetics of mobility and place,’ in Rurality Reimagined, ed. Ben Stringer (Applied Research + Design, 2018). She is currently working on a book about a series of journeys in search of salt.