Priscilla BECK

Priscilla Beck is a writer, artist and facilitator based in lutruwita / trowunna / Tasmania. Her art and writing practice is a culmination of critical and creative works, each deeply connected to process and place, that often retains a self awareness critical of its medium.

Priscilla’s creative practice is complemented by a portfolio of arts writing and facilitating meaningful projects in the community. Priscilla has exhibited widely, and undertaken residencies across Australia. Priscilla's art practice is open-ended and speculative, working within set frameworks to create subtle, material-based installations. Each work is deeply connected to process and place, and often uses art practice and systems as the ‘site’ within which to respond.

Recent projects have culminated in growing salt crystals on the walls of a gallery in Naarm/Melbourne, casting concrete vessels to carry spring water from lutruwita/trowunna/Tasmania to Mparntwe/Alice Springs, writing a one act play for two LCD screens to perform and using porcelain clay in place of filler to repair the imperfections on the walls of a heritage listed gallery in Meanjin/Brisbane.

Earlier this year Priscilla turned Sawtooth ARI gallery into a pinhole camera that projected images of the sky across the warehouse walls and floor for the duration of MonaFoma festival in Launceston.

There is an innate self-consciousness in her work that speaks to the problems of being human and of being a human making art.