bEam arts
CURRENT RESIDENT ARTISTS
CHRISTINA O'HARA
Christina O’Hara (b. 2000) is an Irish, mixed media artist. Her work is a window into the connections between found materials and her internal experience of fragmented connections. She explores the subluxed connections of a defective structure and the vulnerability of the human form. As someone with a condition affecting the structural protein in her body, she gains a sense of empowerment through her work.
Christina is inspired by collecting found materials from her environment which resonate with her, acting as keystones to represent physiological elements. She experiments with ways in which she can connect pieces together to act as a mechanism to bind tissues into a structure. An intuitive process of knotting, stitching and interlocking demonstrates a fragile, lax, disjointed internal connection.
CARL FOLKESSON
Carl Folkesson (b.1993) is a furniture designer and artist based in Stockholm, Sweden. His
work develops within narrow frameworks through recontextualizing found forms and
overlooked materials. By examining their origins, values and possible future functions, the
work is shaped through dialogue with what is already present. An exploration of the
boundary between craft and industry, tradition and innovation, function and sculpture.
CHRISTINA O'HARA
Christina O’Hara (b. 2000) is an Irish, mixed media artist. Her work is a window into the connections between found materials and her internal experience of fragmented connections. She explores the subluxed connections of a defective structure and the vulnerability of the human form. As someone with a condition affecting the structural protein in her body, she gains a sense of empowerment through her work.
Christina is inspired by collecting found materials from her environment which resonate with her, acting as keystones to represent physiological elements. She experiments with ways in which she can connect pieces together to act as a mechanism to bind tissues into a structure. An intuitive process of knotting, stitching and interlocking demonstrates a fragile, lax, disjointed internal connection.
CHRISTINA O'HARA
Christina O’Hara (b. 2000) is an Irish, mixed media artist. Her work is a window into the connections between found materials and her internal experience of fragmented connections. She explores the subluxed connections of a defective structure and the vulnerability of the human form. As someone with a condition affecting the structural protein in her body, she gains a sense of empowerment through her work.
Christina is inspired by collecting found materials from her environment which resonate with her, acting as keystones to represent physiological elements. She experiments with ways in which she can connect pieces together to act as a mechanism to bind tissues into a structure. An intuitive process of knotting, stitching and interlocking demonstrates a fragile, lax, disjointed internal connection.