Heather Beardsley
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  • 2019
    • Folding City
    • Shangyuan Art Residency
    • Once I Had...
  • 2018
    • Ectopic Anatomy
    • Fictive Fossils
    • Fiber Cyanotypes
  • 2017
    • Fabulatory Epistemology
    • Die Sammlung
    • Dissolving Grids
    • Here Be Dragons
    • Batiks
  • 2016
    • Mapping Migrations
  • 2015
    • Taxonomy
    • Institute for the Study of Fabulatory Epistemology and Fantasy Football
  • 2014
    • Lab Notebook
    • Continuous Drawing
  • 2013
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2019

Distorted Depth

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These cyanotypes draw on the problem of plastic pollution in the ocean, using sculptures of sea creatures made from recycled plastic to make photographic contact prints.

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Shangyuan Art Museum Residency

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This work created in Beijing, relates to the propaganda and performative elements of Chinese culture, and how it compares to the lived experience of spending an extended period of time there.

Folding City

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Throughout my time at Rogers Art Loft, I made a series of photographic collages, overlaying recognizable elements from the Las Vegas strip with prototypical elements of the Mojave Desert to create architectural interventions in harmony with nature. ​​

Once I had....

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This installation, created for a two-person exhibition in Tallinn with Britta Benno, evokes domesticity and the feeling of home, but everything from the embroidered linens, to the deteriorating wall paper and the absence of people show that something is off..