Beccy Ware North Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Beccy Ware explores the ironic and often poignant timeline of her life. Her work is multidisciplinary, embracing the nostalgia of vintage textiles, the expression of ink, and immersion of sound, video and augmented reality, telling the matrilineal story of her own and other women’s lives.
Based in Scarborough, Beccy's practice brings together textiles, storytelling, digital technology and immersive experience. With a background in web design and educational technology, she has spent many years exploring how people interact with digital environments. Her longstanding interest in making, particularly through textiles, has also led her to teach dressmaking, costume and, eventually, Art. Around four years ago, Beccy began writing stories drawn from her own life, focusing on 1982 — a pivotal year in which her sister was born and she met the Pope. Wanting the time and space to explore and process these memories, she applied to study for an MA Fine Art: Digital at Central Saint Martins. During her first year, she translated autobiographical experiences into abstract symbols, which she then reinterpreted as textile pieces. This work culminated in STORY, a solo exhibition in which the stories were read aloud alongside the artworks, bringing together narrative, material and lived experience. Her research explored how vintage textiles might help re-establish a connection to a person's sense of continuity across time following a threat to meaning. Through this process of reflection and making, she began to create spirals — forms that suggested lifelines, cycles and the passage of time. This exploration also led her to consider art not simply as an object, but as a transformation that takes place within a person as they make or experience it.
