Rebecca Beinart

Rebecca Beinart is a Nottingham based artist, who did a fine art degree, which was a 3 year course at Nottingham Trent. She works with people from different disciplines. At uni she become interested in how art could be an experience looked at narratives. The things she made were visual but shown as an event. Her degree project was a treasure hunt - clues led you to a place. It was fun but also educational - you would learn something form the hunt.
She went to do an MA - Art and ecology in Devon. The course was experimental by nature. She was taught by writer, artists, scientists and more.
She uses photography to document her work and live events.
She has done comissioned work.
In Bristol she did work where she held a drawing infront of a view. She walked along a river in Bristol seven times and took sketches of it, and place that in the landscape.
She learnt a lot of different facts about the river and also some stories.

In London, she went looking for food to create a meal . Not from bins, but from the wild life in forests etc. She works on her own and also in groups to do workshops.
In Loughborough she made her own bread, which was passed on like Herman which means she used some of it and added to it and passed it on for other people to add things, to lots of different people.

The next project she worked on with her sister was origination - investigation of own family history. Identity - family tree. She made a video in Africa, of a dinner party with no guests but the food gets eaten. It was in response to finding out that their great great grandas sold salt so the performance was set up on where the salt was.

She went to look how nature (plants/leaves) can be used as medicine. 'Poison' was the name of the next project. She was looking at plants that were poisonous and plants the are used as medicine. She gathered information on medicines and the history of giving out medicines. She made liquid that would be dangerous to drink, but she was interested in how you could create something dangerous from pretty flowers.

She also did a project on wasteland. She took photos of land which was not being used, and where buildings have been knocked down. She says these were place for imagination, because everywhere else is set in stone.
One project within this involved her taking photographs of every 50 steps.
She is working with a few different artists, and they all did this in Bali within the project.

Alongside making artwork, she works in the field of education. She works at colleges and in the community.