Bekah Carran

B. 1976

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

Untitled (2024), copper, sterling silver, manganese bronze and copper, 190 mm dia. $1650

Artist Biography

Bekah Carran is a multi-disciplinary artist whose practice favours the sculptural. She was born in Whanganui in 1976, and graduated with a BFA from the Otago School of Fine Arts in 1998. She was the Olivia Spencer Bower artist-in-residence in 2003, and the Physics Room artist-in-residence in 2007. She lives and works in Ōtepoti Dunedin.

Carran exhibits regularly throughout New Zealand, both solo and in group shows. Her work has featured in major exhibitions, including The Obstinate Object (2012) at Te Whare Toi City Gallery Wellington, and Everyday Fiction (2013) and And we look and comb our hair (2020), at The Dowse Art Museum.

Carran tends to work with objects found in domestic spaces – the debris of our daily lives. Bowls of coins, poorly-made jewellery and pottery picked up at op-shops, and six-pack rings mix with industrial materials like steel and concrete to become works of art that balance delicacy and tension. Carran is taking the junk of everyday life and making it timeless, prompting us to think about the timeline of objects, the human ego, and environmental decline.

Solo Exhibitions

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

Group Exhibitions