2016
Awards for Artists, Paul Hamlyn Foundation
Lucy Beech
Born 1985, United Kingdom
2011-2013 Slade School of Fine Art, London (M.A)
2004-2007 Chelsea College of Art and Design, London (B.A Hons)
Edward Thomasson
Born 1985, United Kingdom
2009-2011 Slade School of Fine Art, London (M.A)
2004-2008 Chelsea College of Art and Design, London (B.A Hons)
Selected Press
The Irish Times, Human bodies riven by anxiety in Galway, 20 February 2018
Art Monthly, Lucy Beech and Edward Thomasson: Together, Laura Allsop, June 2017
Awards
Solo Exhibitions
2017
Art Now: Lucy Beech and Edward Thomasson, Tate Britain, London
2013
Left Behind Together, Outpost Norwich
2011
One Another Company, IMT Gallery, London
Performances
2016
Public Relations, Maureen Paley, London
Public Relations, Site Gallery, Sheffield.
2015
Passive Aggressive 3, Frieze Live, London.
2014
The Cigarette Game 2 (Tearing it Up), Radio Calling, Tent, Rotterdam.
Passive Aggressive 2, Camden Arts Centre, London.
2013
Passive Aggressive, Yapi Kredi Cultural Center, Istanbul.
2012
Doing It, Vivarium Studio, Biennale Belleville, Paris.
Open House, South London Gallery, London.
2011
Strip, Lucky PDF for Frieze Projects, Frieze Art Fair, London.
Seven Year Itch, More Soup and Tart, Barbican Theatre, London.
Human Resources, Platform One, Bloomsbury Theatre, London.
2010
Holding it Together. Night and Day, Modern Art Oxford, Oxford.
The Cigarette Game, Testing Ground: Live, Zabludowicz Collection, London.
On Face Work, I Was There, Stedefreund Berlin.
2009
Self Protection is not Magical, Making Mistakes, Paradise Row, London.
Instructions for a Dance, Propeller Island, London.
2008
Fire In the Belly, Concrete and Glass Festival, Shoreditch House, London.
Selected Group Exhibitions
2021
System Down? State of Affairs, Galerie Klemm's, Berlin, Germany
One Point Five, Kunsthalle Mainz, Mainz, Germany
2016
The Girls the Boys and the Political, Lisson Gallery, London
2011
The Cigarette Game, Fordham Gallery at Maddox, Maddox Arts, London.
2009
Fire In the Belly, Visions in The Nunnery, Bow Arts Trust, London.
Self Protection is Not Magical, Schicksal Oder Vaseline?, The Showroom, Berlin.
Screenings
2021
The New Joy of Sex, Impakt Festival, Het Huis Studio 3, Utrecht, Netherlands
2015
Artist Film and Video, Tate Britain, London.
In conversation with Jonathan P Watts, Harris Museum, Preston.
2013
Slam Friday Late, V22, London.
Residencies
2016
Platform, Site Gallery, Sheffield
2014
Performance residency, Camden Arts Centre, London
2013
Transition, Yapi Kredi Cultural Center, Istanbul.
Selected Bibliography
2017
Allsop, Laura, Lucy Beech and Edward Thomasson: Together, Art Monthly, June 2017, p. 20.
Beech, Lucy and Thomasson, Edward, Robert Mapplethorpe’s Brian Ridley and Lyle Heeter, 1979,
Tate Etc., Issue 40, Summer 2017, p.111.
2016
Judah, Hettie, Neo-Shamanism and Other Trends in the Art World This Year, artnet.com, 29 December 2016.
Judah, Hettie, The 50 Most Exciting Artists in Europe Right Now, artnet.com, 23 November 2016.
–––, News: Prizes, Art Monthly, No. 402, December-January 2016-17, p.16.
Muñoz-Alonso, Lorena, Paul Hamlyn Foundation Reveals 2016 Visual Arts Award Winners,
artnet.com., 11 November 2016.
–––, Paul Hamlyn Foundation Reveals Recipients Of 22nd Annual Award for Artists, 14 November 2016.