Beth Horner (b. 1995, Hertfordshire) recently graduated from the Royal College of Art with an MA in Painting in 2020, having received a BA in Painting from Wimbledon College of Art in 2017. She is currently a Digswell Arts Fellow and works from her studio in Letchworth Garden City.
In her small-scale paintings, familiar suburban settings are transformed into sinister, uncanny dwellings blanketed in mystery and quiet possibility. Personal and found imagery is compiled, disassembled, and pieced back together in claustrophobic, eerie documentations of domestic life. Intricately rendered fragments lead into areas suggestive of decay. Plaster strips resemble scabs on the painting’s surface as if a result of intense scrutiny, warping and abstracting the spaces. The work often lingers in thresholds between day and night, inside and outside, safety and fear and the physical and the virtual.
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elizabeth.horner@network.rca.ac.uk
Education
2018 - 2020 Royal College of Art, MA Painting
2014 - 2017 Wimbledon College of Art, BA (First Class Honours) Fine Art: Painting
2013 - 2014 Camberwell College of Art, Foundation Diploma in Art & Design
Exhibitions
2021
Neighbourhood Watch (Solo Show), 15th July - 8th August, Broadway Gallery, Letchworth Garden City
The Letchworth Open (Group Show), 9th January - March, Broadway Gallery, Letchworth Garden City
2020
50/50 (Group Show), 3rd - 13th September, Fold Gallery, London
RCA2020 (MA Degree Show), 16th - 31st July, https://2020.rca.ac.uk/students/elizabeth-horner
Snapshot (Group Show), 10th - 14th September, Hockney Gallery RCA, London
2019
Thresholds (Solo Show), 12th - 19th September, the Old Diorama Arts Centre, London
Brave New World (Group Show), 16th - 31st May - Justin Cook Art, London
2018
The Big Little Social (Group Show), 22nd October - Ole & Steen Kensington, London
Forty by Forty (Group Show), 9th April - 4th May 2018 - GX Gallery, London
Art Rooms Fair - 20th - 22nd January 2018, Meliá White House, London
FBA Futures (Group Show), 9th - 20th January 2018 - Mall Galleries, London
2017
Affordable Art Fair Stockholm - Will’s Art Warehouse, 12th - 15th October, Stockholm
There’s No Place Like Home (Group Show) – Will’s Art Warehouse, 29th July – 18th September, London
FLOCK 2017 (Group Show), 25th July - 25th August - GX Gallery, London
Capsticks Exhibition 2017 (Group Show) - Capsticks Law Firm, London
Wimbledon College of Arts Undergraduate Degree Show (Group Show), 15th - 24th June - Wimbledon College of Arts, London
The Currents of Identity (Group Show), 18th - 23rd April - Crypt Gallery, London
109 Nails (Group Show), 9th - 12th March - Copeland Gallery, Peckham, London
2016
Mind Map (3 Person Show), 3rd – 6th May - The Gallery on the Corner, London
Indigo Planning Offices, May 2016 - May 2017, Wimbledon, London
Capsticks Exhibition 2016 (Group Show) - Capsticks Law Firm, London
2014
Foundation Diploma Show, 12th – 17th May – Camberwell College of Art, London
Prizes
2021 Broadway Gallery Letchworth Open Curators Choice Award
2017 Landmark Award (1st Place)
2017 Wimbledon Arts Society Award (1st Place)
2017 Jackson’s Open Painting Prize Longlist
2016 Indigo Planning Prize for Painting (2nd Place)