BETH KETTEL

PRIMARY STUDIOS   |   BETHKETTEL@GMAIL.COM   |   @BETHKETTEL

CURRENT
2025 --- NearNow Fellow, Broadway Cinema

SOLO EXHIBITIONS | COMMISSIONS 
2024 --- DEAD RECKONING, Eastside Projects, Birmingham (solo)
2023 --- A Tree Root Tapping on a Concrete Coffin, The Contemporary Journal (text & video commission)
2021 --- The Sound of Somebody Changing Their Mind, Phoenix, Leicester (solo)
2021 --- A Mutual Influence, Green Man, Brecon Beacons, Wales (outdoor public installation commission)
2019 --- Baseline Drift, Art Night, Walthamstow, London  (outdoor performance commission produced by Forma London)
2018 --- A Bang, A Bomb, A Lie & A Band that stands for Something Else, Art & Screen Network, ICA, London (video commission)
2017 --- The Mist of a Pessimist, ZC: Invites, London (solo & performance)
2016 --- Viscoelastic Muted Contempt [soft applause], Eastside Projects, Birmingham (solo & performance)
2016 --- ||,I, Two Queens, Leicester (solo)
2016 --- Blend Blend, or, The Caretaker, HUTT, Nottingham (solo & performance)
2015 --- Post-Point, or, The Sequential Tangential Potential, The Telfer Gallery, Glasgow (solo & performance)

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS | PERFORMANCES
2024 --- Our Stories Are Wild, Derby Cathedral, partnered with Nature Connections Conference, University of Derby (group)
2023 --- Deth Mettel, Nottingham Contemporary (performance)
2023 --- Video Materials, Primary (group)
2022 --- Bruise Prelude, The Lowry Galleries, Salford (performance)
2021 --- Short Film Screening, Phoenix Cinema, Leicester (video screening)
2021 --- Göteborg International Biennial for Contemporary Art GIBCA, Sweden (group)
2020 --- What you up to? Online Screening Programme, Forma, London (video screening)
(Artists: Gina Czarnecki, Benedict Drew, Amartey Golding, Sophie Hoyle, Gareth Hudson, People Like Us, Mary Reid Kelley & Patrick Kelley, Himali Singh Soin, Sorbus & Jane, Louise Wilson)
2020 --- DreamsTimeFree - THE END, TACO, London (performance) 
(Artists: Simon Bayliss, Holly Pester, Tom Smith)
2020 --- Pussy Pandemique, Self Esteem, (performance)
2019 --- 12. Large Eagle Dropping Left, Beyond in Descent (7) LINEAGE, Full English, Curated by Dateagle, Platform, London (group) 
(Arists: Louise Ashcroft, Takeru Brady, Jade Montserrat, Kerry O’Connor, Richie Moment, Tom Sewell, Irvin Pascal, Rosa-Johan Uddoh)
2015 - 2019 --- Tŷ Pawb, Wrexham / Cob Gallery / MANTEL Copperfield Gallery / CCTV17, Caustic Coastal, Manchester / Fre$hCo - Joelio, Tatjana Pieters Gallery, Ghent / Jerwood Staging Series, Jerwood Space, London / (It's All) Tropical, Art Sheffield / CBS, Open Eye Gallery, Liverpool / Wysing Arts Centre, Cambridgeshire 

FUNDED RESIDENCIES
2023 --- Launch Pad LaB, Champagne-Mouton, France (2 months)
2023 --- Fieldwork Studio, Southerndown, Wales
2023 --- Writer-In-Residence, Nottingham Contemporary (6 months)
2022 --- UK Associate Delfina Foundation, London (4 months)
2017 --- Research residency ECOC, Gothenburg; Stockholm; Malmo, Sweden (2 months)
2017 --- Non-Space, Aarhus, Denmark (1 month)
2016 --- Production Residency. Eastside Projects, Birmingham (1 month)
2015 - 2016 --- East Bristol Contemporary / LOW PROFILE. Plymouth Arts Centre / THE WRITING ROOM, HUTT  / AltMFA, Guest Projects, London / MUTO, Manchester / Wysing Arts Centre, Cambridgeshire (6 weeks)

AWARDS | FUNDING
Arts Council England / Kleinwort Hambros Emerging Artist Prize Nomination (Jury - Melanie Keen, Wellcome Collection; Fiona Bradley, Fruit Market Gallery; Aurelie Deplus, Société Générale, Paris; Andrew Nairne, Kettle's Yard; Sarah Brown, Leeds Art Gallery) / To & Fro with Sonya Dyer / A-N Artist Bursary / London Borough of Culture Funding / European Capital of Culture Funding

TALKS | TUTORING | LECTURING
Goldsmiths University (LINK workshop) / University College London (Performance Workshop) / Camberwell College of Arts, UAL / Leicester De Montfort University / Nottingham Trent University /  Bristol UWE / Bath Spa University / Delfina Foundation / Launch Pad LaB / Green Man / Sheffield Hallam University with Bloc Projects / Nottingham Contemporary / Phoenix Gallery / Derby University / Eastside Projects / Studio Voltaire 

EDUCATION
--- Syllabus IV (Iniva, Studio Voltaire, S1 Artspace, Wysing Art Centre, Eastside Projects, Spike Island)
--- BA (Hons) Fine Art, First Class Honours, Nottingham Trent University
--- London Film Academy

REVIEWS | WRITINGS | PRESS
Artist To Watch - Contemporary Art Society - Vassilios Doupas - Baseline Drift
Essay - Jamie Sutcliffe (Strange Attractor Press) - Beth Kettel: Baseline Drift
Exhibition Text - Francesca Gavin - Full English
Creative Boom by Tom May - Green Man Visual Art ft. A Mutual Influence
This Is Tomorrow - The Mist of a Pessimist
Mousse Magazine - Exhibitions - The Mist of a Pessimist
Dazed Digital - Exhibitions - Muscular Notions
The Upcoming - Top Five - The Mist of a Pessimist
The List - Written by Laura Campbell - Post-Point, and/or, The Sequential Tangential Potential

COLLABORATIONS
Reactor - The Gold Ones