Photograph courtesy of Palazzo Monti
Amy Beager (b. 1988, Essex) is a painter living and working in London, UK. Her practice reimagines figurative painting through bold colour juxtapositions, sensuous brushwork, and compositions that balance romanticism with psychological intensity. Working between the classical and the contemporary, Beager creates paintings in which figures appear suspended between ecstasy and anguish, desire and isolation, independence and belonging.
Drawing inspiration from Renaissance painting and the dramatic poses of religious iconography, her figures possess an otherworldly presence while remaining emotionally immediate. Richly layered surfaces and vivid palettes contrast with the emotional complexity of her subjects, producing works charged with tension, intimacy, and theatricality. Themes of love, death, longing, and transformation recur throughout her paintings, which hover between dreamlike reverie and emotional confrontation.
Beager was selected as a winner for the Ingram Prize in 2022. Her work was exhibited in People Watching with the The Ingram Collection at Dorset Museum & Art Gallery, Dorchester in 2026 and The Spirit of Adventure at West Horsley Place, Surrey in 2023. In 2024 she exhibited at Glyndebourne as part of ‘From Then to Now: 90 Years of Glyndebourne Posters’ and completed a residency at Palazzo Monti in Brescia, Italy. She has exhibited at a number of London Galleries including the Saatchi Gallery, Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, Huxley Parlour Gallery, Soho Revue and Wilder Gallery among others. She has also exhibited Internationally in Switzerland (Kutlesa Gallery), Germany (Better Go South Gallery), The Netherlands (Enari Gallery) and USA (Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery) among others. Her work is held in collections including the Gnutti Beretta Collection, Italy; Palazzo Monti, Italy; the Noewe Foundation, Lithuania; The Ingram Collection, UK; and Soho House Collections.
EDUCATION
2020- 2021 Turps Banana Correspondence Course
2007- 2010 BA, Fashion Design, Nottingham Trent University, UK
2006- 2007 BTEC National Diploma Art and Design (Distinction), South Essex College 2005
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024 Slow Blink, Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, London
2023 Paradise, Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, Berlin
2022 Swan Maidens, Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, London Bridge, London
London Art Fair X Wilder Gallery, Solo Booth, London
2021 Dreamers, Wilder Gallery, London
Now | Futures (mini online), Huxley-Parlour Gallery
The Torches Burn Bright (online), Offshoot Arts X Artsy
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2026 Illuminated, AOAP Projects, The Royal Society of Arts, London, UK
People Watching, The Ingram Collection, Dorset Museum & Art Gallery, Dorchester, UK
2024 From Then to Now: 90 Years of Glyndebourne Posters, Glyndebourne Opera House, East Sussex, UK
Expo Chicago, Chicago, USA
2023 Moons, Enari Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Papier, Delphian Gallery, Studio La Madeleine, Ligné, France
The Spirit of Adventure, The Ingram Collection, West Horsley Place, Surrey, UK
Eye of the Collector, London, UK
2022 Untitled Art Fair, Miami, USA
The Ingram Prize, Unit 1 Gallery Workshop, London, UK
Spectrum, Better Go South, Stuttgart, Germany
Her, Fir Gallery, Beijing, China
Power of Femininity, Kutlesa Gallery, Switzerland
2021 In Momentum, Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, London Bridge, London
A Call Across Rooms, Liliya Gallery, London
Femme-Ate, Soho Revue, Soho, London
The Top 100, The Auction Collective, The Department store, London
Fragmented Intimacy, Two-person exhibition, Grove Collective, London
2020 Winners Exhibition (online) , Delphian gallery Open Call 2020
Antisocial Isolation, Curated by Delphian Gallery at Saatchi Gallery, London
Painting Persists (online), Offshoot Arts
Works on Paper (online), Blue Shop Cottage
The Sinister Figures (online), BUNKER / BuuBuu Studio
AWARDS & RESIDENCIES
2024 Palazzo Monti Residency, Italy
2022 The Ingram Prize, Winner
2022 Clovermill Artist Residency, The Netherlands
2020 Delphian Gallery Open Call, Winner
COLLECTIONS
Gnutti Berretta Collection, Italy
Palazzo Monti, Italy
Noewe Foundation, Lithuania
The Ingram Collection, UK
Soho House Collections
Press Links
https://www.villegiardini.it/artissima-2024-lintervista-a-umberta-gnutti-beretta/
https://www.cassart.co.uk/inside-the-studio-with-amy-beager/
https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-amy-beagers-dreamy-paintings-blend-fashion-fairy-tale
https://www.ft.com/content/a74fe98f-9180-41bc-80d1-c64bfb08f2ba
https://www.trebuchet-magazine.com/amy-beager-painterly-romance/
https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-5-artists-radar
https://fadmagazine.com/2021/04/22/the-upcoming-amy-beager/
https://thewickculture.com/spotlight-feature-amy-beager-figurative-arts-fresh-new-voice/
https://tempusmagazine.co.uk/news/interview-artist-amy-beager
https://www.wherestheframe.com/post/antisocial-isolation
https://asiancurator.com/amy-beager/
https://www.she-curates.com/interviews/artists/amy-beager/
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