Artist Statement

Multi-disciplinary artist and educator based between London and Oxford.

My experimental and interdisciplinary practice concerns the corporeal - the body - and all the contrasting and conflicting aspects inherent; how bodies are sensual, beautiful, ugly, damaged, idealised, sexual, abject, gendered, delicate. Distorting and reconfiguring my own body, I work in the liminal state between abstract and figurative, in a mode that is simultaneously sensual and disturbingly uncanny. It is the visualisation of the transformation of the tactile sense - the sensation of skin.

My work draws focus to moments of beauty and quiet found in the everyday. In particular, the play of light has become the focal point of my new work.

2024 /// PGCE in Secondary Education Art & Design \\\ The University of Buckingham

2021 /// Award in Education and Training \\\ City Lit

2016-2018 \\\ MA in Print \\\ Royal College of Art

2011-2013 /// HND Fine Art /// Kensington & Chelsea College

2011 \\\ The Alternative Art Foundation \\\ Slade School of Fine Art, UCL

2006-2009 /// BA (Hons) History of Art /// The University of York 

Teacher of Art and Ceramics at St. Edward’s School, Oxford.

Artist-in-Residence at St. Edward’s School, Oxford 2021-2022.

Studio based at Thames-Side Studios, London SE18 5NR.

Elected member of The London Group, Greenwich Printmakers and the Chelsea Arts Club.

Prints are available for purchase and viewing in Greenwich Printmakers gallery at 1a Greenwich Market, London.

Artist Educator with Bow Arts (previously I was on their traineeship 2019-2020). Extensive experience of leading and facilitating workshops for children, older adults and families.

RESIDENCIES/AWARDS

• Artist in Residence, St Edward’s School, Oxford 2021-2022

• Time Space Money Bursary from a-n The Artists Information Company and Arts Council England 2020

• Chelsea Arts Club Trust Stan Smith Memorial Prize 2019

• The CoLab Body and Place Residency: Architecture 2019

• Summerhall X RCA Residency 2019

• Almacantar Studio Award 

• Tiffany & Co. x Outset Studiomakers Prize (Shortlisted) 

• Stanley Picker Tutorship - Kingston University 2018 (Shortlisted)

• The Ruby and Will George Trust

• The Eaton Fund

• The Company of Merchant Taylors of York Award 2017-2018

• Villiers David Bursary, Royal College of Art - 2017

• Mara/Laing Graduate Student Exchange Programme Residency, University of Calgary, AB, Canada, January-February 2017

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

• Bethany Marett: Featured Artist, Greenwich Printmakers, London, Apr 2023

• Interior Light, North Wall Arts Centre, Oxford, Jun-Jul. 2022

• Bethany Marett: Featured Artist, Greenwich Printmakers, London, Sept. 2020

• material corporeal, Little Gallery, Calgary, AB, Canada, Feb. 2017

• Bare, part of Islington Exhibits Festival, Blighty Coffee, London, Oct. - Nov. 2014

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

• V&A Word & Image Department and Archive Department, Victoria & Albert Museum, London, UK

• University of Calgary, Art Department, AB, Canada

• Printmakers Council Archive, Scarborough Art Gallery, Scarborough, UK

PRESS LINKS

• Interview about my woodcut ‘Thrown Shadows’, 2023

• Interview with Private View , 2021

• Interview 1Q with She Performs, 2021

• Interview about my woodcut, Lockdown Morning, 2020

• Interview with She Performs 2018

• Interview about my printmaking practice for Greenwich Printmakers 2015

2025

• [upcoming] Bethany Marett: Featured Artist, Greenwich Printmakers, London, May.

2024

• Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair, London, 20-25 Nov.

2023

• Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair, London, 26-29 Oct.

• The Affordable Art Fair Battersea, London, 19-22 Oct.

• Greenwich Printmakers at Linden Hall Studio, Deal, Kent, Apr-May.

• Bethany Marett: Featured Artist, Greenwich Printmakers, London, Apr.

2022

• Chelsea Arts Club Print Show, London, Nov.

• Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair, London, Nov.

• Annual Show, Chelsea Arts Club, London, Jul-Sept.

• Interior Light, North Wall Arts Centre, Oxford, Jun-Jul.

• The measure of all things, Thames-Side Studios Gallery, London, Mar-Apr.

• Flow 365, North Wall Arts Centre, Oxford, May-Jun.

2021

• Art UK x Auction Collective Charity Print Sale, London Sep.-Dec.

• In Plain Sight, Thelma Hulbert Gallery, Devon, Aug.

• Greenwich Printmakers: Surface Impressions, By Residency, London, Aug.

• In the Dark III: Being There, The London Group, St Johns Crypt, Waterloo, Jun.

• New Light Art Prize, The Biscuit Factory, Newcastle, touring to Tullie House Museum & Art Gallery, Carlisle (Sep.-Dec.) and Bankside Gallery, London, (Nov.)

2020

• ING Discerning EYE [online], Mall Galleries, Dec.

• New Light Art Prize, Scarborough Art Gallery, Sep.-Jan. 2021

• Bethany Marett: Featured Artist, Greenwich Printmakers, London, Sep.

• Isolation [online], The London Group, May

• Quarantined Light [online], Lewis Andrews, May

2019

• London Group Open 2019, The Cello Factory, London, Nov.

• ING Discerning Eye, Mall Galleries, Nov.

• Land, Sea and Sky, The Ropewalk, Barton upon Humber, Oct.

• Boundaries, RAW Labs, London, Jul.

• Standing Water, RAW Labs, London, May

• Hand Held, In Touch Tour, Bill Scott Sculpture Centre, ESW, Edinburgh, May

• The Same Tendency, Summerhall Basement Galleries, Edinburgh, Feb. - Mar.

2018

• SurfaceDEEP, Robert Burt Gallery, London, Sep.

• Royal College of Art Degree Show 2018, RCA Battersea, London, Jun.

• Bethany Marett: Featured Artist, Greenwich Printmakers, London, Mar.

• Hold your horses, CGP Gallery, London, Feb.

• Disrupt, Subject Matter, Feb.

2017

• Barbican Arts Group Trust Open 2017, London, Nov.

• Like, Literally, Literally Like, Hockney Gallery, Royal College of Art, Nov.

• Islands, Hockney Gallery, Royal College of Art, Nov.

• Greenwich Printmakers - Winter Print Show, Jackhouse Gallery, Portsmouth, Nov.

• PMC Mini Print Exhibition, Morley College, Oct.

• Stewarts Law RCA Secret 2017, Dyson Gallery, Royal College of Art, Sep.

• A museum of modern nature, The Wellcome Collection, Jun. - Sep.

• The Ruth Borchard Self-Portrait Prize, Piano Nobile Gallery, London, May

• Lasting Impressions: a selection of works from the Printmakers Council Archive, Scarborough Art Gallery, Mar. - Jun.

• Freshly Squeezed, CGP Gallery, Southwark Park, London, Feb.

• material corporeal, Little Gallery, Calgary, AB, Canada, Feb.

2016

• 100 for 100, New Light, Nov.

• Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair, Royal Arsenal Riverside, London,  Nov.

• In Two Parts: Part Two, Lombard Gallery, Margate, Aug.

• Winner of Cass Art Award selected by judge Sophie Layton, Art Hub Print Open, Art Hub Deptford, London, Jul.

• Secret Rose Auction, RB&HH Arts, Flowers Gallery, London, Jun.

• Shortlisted for the Coffee Art Project, London Coffee Festival, Apr.

• West London Original Print Show II, Austin Forum, London, Feb.

2015

• Prints for Presents, Morley Gallery, London, Dec.

• Greenwich Printmakers, Jack House Gallery, Portsmouth, Jun.

• Summer Exhibition, The Royal Academy, Jun. - Aug.

• An Exhibition of Original Prints by Greenwich Printmakers, Bourneside Gallery, Mar.

2014

• Bare, Blighty Coffee, London (as part of Islington Exhibits) Oct. - Nov. click here for my interview about the event and segment of the poetry reading from the PV (at 7:08 into the film) and click here for write-up.

• Shortlisted for The National Original Print Exhibition, Bankside Gallery, London, Sep.

• Hidden, The Crypt Gallery, St Pancras Church, May

• Shortlisted for the New Lights Art Prize 2013 The Mercer Gallery, Harrogate, Sep. - Nov. and The Biscuit Factory, Newcastle, Jan. - Apr.

2013

• Pool Party, Group 101, The Albert, London, Sep.

• Petrol, Five Years, London, Aug. - Sep.

• Source, Griffin Gallery, London, Jul.

• 39 HOURS, Shoreditch Town Hall, London, Jun.

• The Rootstein Hopkins Drawing Exhibition 2013, Morley College, London, May. - Jun.

• 2012

• UMuMa, Lewisham Arthouse, London, Oct. - Nov. Reviewed by The Courtauldian newspaper p.11)

• Height x Depth x Width, Five Years, London, Aug.

• Showcase, Griffin Gallery, The Studio Building, London, Jul.Brink, Hortensia Gallery, Kensington and Chelsea College, London, Jul.

• Preston Harris Open Exhibition, The Harris Museum and Art Gallery, Preston, Dec.

2011

• Slade Summer School Exhibition 2011, The Slade School of Fine Art, UCL, London, Sep.