B E T H A N Y   C A R T E R

Following her graduation from The University of Brighton in 2017, Bethany continues to practice art  whilst travelling around the world. She has recently been in residence and exhibited in Chongqing, China and is currently living in Melbourne, Australia.

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Her performance and sculpture work is informed by a number of different themes including feminism, gender and body image.

Bethany's paintings seek to overwhelm the senses, to enchant and immerse viewers. She hopes to re-engage the contemporary audience with the natural sublime in our age of new media. Gathering information from Theosophy, Paganism, Eastern Religion and Spirituality, she is concerned with how meditation and entheogens can influence our state of consciousness.
 

A key aspect to the work is non-dualism and the interconnectivity between all life forms. Through representation of personal visions and enlightening experiences the artist encourages viewers to relive the experience through a form of ‘mystic participation’  breaking down the barriers between what people think they know as reality/dreams and the subconscious/conscious mind. The heightened, unnatural fluorescent colours and idyllic compositions relate to the revolutionary counter-culture of the 1960s, but also raise questions about how much of the earth is still natural, untouched and untrodden.

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