Collection: Felicity Beaumont

Felicity Beaumont is a painter concerned with how we, as a contemporary society, relate to the body. Using imagery from social media, personal archive, publicly submitted imagery, pornography, film and pop culture, she crops, stylises and re-situates images of the body to inhabit the space of abstract painting.

The colourful works she creates explore the viewer/painting relationship, recognisability, abstraction, and discuss the significance of the body in contemporary society; focusing on subjects of diversity, sexualisation, stereotyping, male and female gaze, objectification, gender and identity. She is ultimately interested in how abstraction and the repositioning of the human form can address the socially constructed ideologies surrounding the body.

Stemming from her association with fourth wave feminism and interest in the growing prominence of social media and post-truth ideologies, Beaumont is interested in how observations of the figure, human body and societal pre-conceptions of beauty, gender and identity have adjusted in recent decades, particularly with the emergence of the current digital age.