Beatrix Haxby is a London-based multidisciplinary artist working across painting, drawing and movement methodology. Her work investigates how trajectories of force, desire, resistance and visibility become visual language.
Her early paintings and performances fused high romanticism & classical mythos with the visual language of contemporary image culture and gym spectacle, aligning with Camille Paglia's reading of paganism within modern visual culture.
This background in competitive movement shaped her foundational understanding of rhythm, resistance, gravity, progression, spectacle. Though not currently the subject of her work, this movement persists as a processual infrastructure: informing spatial compositions, anatomical memory, kinetic intuition, relationship to force.
Moving away from the composite, material alchemy of Dalinian surrealism, she instead turns towards the abstract, mentalised alchemy of Matta. Shifting romanticism's charge from the literal mythos of romance toward an optimism about the boundless, unsampleable theatre of human imagination.
RESIDENCIES
Patrick Studios, East Street Arts
January 2022 - October 2022
Education
Fine Art (BA) at Leeds Arts University (2017 - 2022)
PRESS
VIDEO
EXHIBITIONS
2026 (upcoming)
Sod's Law1
The Bath House, Hackney
29 January
2024
Paint Cannon: TENSIONS (performance feature in Ned Prizeman and Alesh Compton show)
Sarah Kravitz Gallery, Soho Square
24 April
2023
Curated by Archie Roberts
Newark Works, Bath
26 May - 11 June
2022
THIS IS A LAUGHING MATTER ( group show curated by Beth Land)
Old Red Bus Station, Leeds
11 - 28 November 2022
Patrick Studios, Leeds
D Contemporary, Mayfair
23 July - 5 August
Dirty Secrets
Fronteer Gallery, Leeds
10 February - 18 March
2021
Ovada, Oxford
4 - 6 November
VIM
Hyde Park Book Club, Leeds
11 September - 3 October
As Above So Below
The Steamship, London
13 - 15 August
Mayfair Hotel, London
25 – 27 June
2020
Queer Identity
The Corn Exchange
March
BabyStep Magazine feature
PEST FEST
the RED Gallery London
March
PEST FEST
1st Anniversary at Arcola Theatre London
March