Amy Beeston
Amy Beeston (b. Edinburgh, 1977) is a sound artist and audio researcher whose work encourages others to listen more deeply to their everyday environments. Her practice is highly interdisciplinary and often collaborative, allowing her to repurpose scientific studies in human hearing and machine listening to create ecologically-minded sound installations and participative listening experiences.
Amy creates both small, quiet wall-hung works with fixed-media soundtracks and room-sized, ever-evolving soundscapes that alter their sonic state in response to characteristics of visitors' own sounds. Since moving to Orkney in 2018 her work is increasingly influenced by principles of acoustic ecology and ecological sustainability. She is a member of the Móti Collective in Orkney, and is also a co-founder of the Yorkshire Sound Women Network and Sheffield-based artist collective SONA.
'Call' 2024, 40 cm X 40 cm collage. Work made while reflecting on the Japanese concept of ikigai.
'Lighthouse communities' 2023 – detail. 30 cm x 115 cm collage. Lighthouse communities shine a light forward, sweep it around, and reveal safe paths for others to take.
'Lighthouse communities' 2023 – detail. 30 cm x 115 cm collage.
An audio rig used in the exhibition 'Precarious Living' 2022
'Dead Sands' 2020 collage. This work describes the predicted effects of climate change on the land in Stenness. Exhibited as part of Móti's 'Bounded Islands' exhibition, Nov 2020.
'Presence' 2021 collage. Work explores intergenerational aspects of parenting from the perspective of a motherless mum. Exhibited as part of Móti's 'Resonance' exhibition, Oct 2021.