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BECA BEEBY

jeweller / gemydd

Beca Beeby is a blacksmith and cast-iron artist turned small-scale: working in recycled metals and porcelain to produce wearable sculpture and vessels, she finds her inspiration in the small, beautiful details of the plants, insects and lichen that live around her.

Beca combines her love of Science and Ethnobotany with her skills in making with metals and clay, to produce unique pieces of wearable and (usually) useable sculpture, which she hopes will spur in the audience the same awe and wonder for the interconnectedness of the natural world that she herself has. Using microscopy and macro photography, Beca studies the morphogenetic forms found in honeycomb; lichen; insect wings; plant cell structure; bubbles and rock formations: she sees it everywhere.

Re-emerging as an artist after the intensity of motherhood, her work spanning the ‘faint, wobbly line between fine art and craft’, Beca sometimes struggles to decide where her work fits and what to call herself, but as the act of making is such an important part of her development, the title ‘Maker’ seems to be right.

Predominantly a 3D artist working in metals and ceramics, experimenting with process and material. Other passions are self-sufficiency, foraging, folktales, sustainability, environmental & social issues: all inspiring the more conceptual side of her work.
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Mae Beca Beeby yn of ac yn artist haearn bwrw sydd wedi troi ei gwaith i raddfa fach: gan weithio mewn metelau wedi’u hailgylchu a phorslen i gynhyrchu cerfluniau a llestri gwisgadwy, mae hi’n cael ei hysbrydoliaeth ym manylion bach, prydferth y planhigion, y pryfed a’r cen sy’n byw o’i chwmpas.

Mae Beca yn cyfuno ei chariad at Wyddoniaeth ac Ethnobotaneg â’i sgiliau mewn gwneud gyda metelau a chlai, i gynhyrchu darnau unigryw o gerfluniau gwisgadwy sydd fel arfer yn ddefnyddiadwy, y mae hi’n gobeithio y byddant yn ysgogi’r un parch a rhyfeddod yn y gynulleidfa at gydgysylltiad y byd naturiol ag sydd ganddi ei hun. Gan ddefnyddio microsgopeg a macro-ffotograffiaeth, mae Beca yn astudio’r ffurfiau morffogenetig a geir mewn diliau mêl; cen; adenydd pryfed; strwythur celloedd planhigion; swigod a ffurfiannau creigiau: mae hi’n ei weld ym mhobman.

Gan ailymddangos fel artist ar ôl dwyster mamolaeth, gyda’i gwaith yn rhychwantu'r 'llinell wan, simsan rhwng celfyddyd gain a chrefft', mae Beca weithiau'n ei chael hi'n anodd penderfynu ble mae ei gwaith yn ffitio a beth i'w alw ei hun, ond gan fod y weithred o wneud yn rhan mor bwysig o'i datblygiad, mae'r teitl 'Gwneuthurwr' yn ymddangos yn iawn iddi.

Yn bennaf artist 3D sy'n gweithio mewn metelau a cherameg, gan arbrofi gyda phroses a deunydd yw hi. Angerddau eraill yw hunangynhaliaeth, chwilota bwyd, chwedlau gwerin, cynaliadwyedd, materion amgylcheddol a chymdeithasol: pob un yn ysbrydoli ochr fwy cysyniadol ei gwaith.