Bekah Carran

B. 1976

My girls and the sea (plate), 2024 copper, copper/silver 5%, found studs, wax, 140 mm dia $1400

Pool 1 2025, recycled copper, recycled silver (5%) and copper, found nose studs & enamel, 262 x 200 x 15 mm $2200

Pool 2 2025, recycled copper, recycled silver (5%) and copper, manganese bronze & enamel, 230 x 185 x 15 mm $2200

Walk at low tide 2025, recycled silver (5%) and copper, steel & enamel, 230 x 140 x 80 mm $1600

Artist Bekah Carran

Rock 2025, recycled silver (5%) and copper, found earring & enamel, 165 x 170 x 35 mm $2200

Kowhai 2025, recycled silver (5%) and copper, manganese bronze, enamel, muka, 1630 x 95 x 45 mm $1100

Artist Bekah Carran

"Surfacing" exhbition by Artist Bekah Carran at Bowen Galleries, August 2025. Photo credit: Stephen A’Court.

Totara 2025 recycled copper, recycled silver (5%) and copper, muka, found nose & earring studs, 1140 x 300 x 120 mm $2700

Breath 2025, recycled silver (5%) and copper, found nose studs, 55 x 170 x 60 mm $1100

Shoreline 2025, recycled copper, recycled silver (5%) and copper & enamel, 240 x 460 x 15 mm $2700

Artist Biography

Bekah Carran (Te Ātiawa, Pākehā b.1976) was born in Whanganui and lives in Ōtepoti on the Peninsula. She holds a BFA majoring in Sculpture from the Otago School of Fine Art.

Carran is a multi-disciplinary artist whose installations and sculptures balance delicacy and tension. Her recent work considers the fluidity of time, layering of place and our connection to te taiao.

Residencies include the Olivia Spencer Bower Artist-in-Residence in Christchurch (2003) and Driving Creek Pottery, Coromandel (2024). Carran has exhibited regularly since 2000, with highlights including Dawn in the New Age, The Obstinate Object at City Gallery, Wellington (2012), And We Look and Comb Our Hair at The New Dowse (2020), and Can You Pick Me Up at The National, Christchurch (2024).

Solo Exhibitions

  • Surfacing, 2025
  • This I Know, 2018
  • Objects to be buried with, 2016
  • Here we lie, 2013
  • Dawn awaits the new age, 2010

Group Exhibitions