David Beattie

David Beattie is an artist who encourages a sense of curiosity and exploration in his act of displacing quotidian objects, playfully welcoming new links and connections to be made between foreign ‘things’. With Transmitter (2010), installed in the rarely-seen Monuments Room at St Mary’s, the artist investigates lunar exploration through a series of found objects and radar devices. In 1946 Project Diana was the first attempt to ‘touch’ another celestial body outside of Earth by bouncing radio signals off the surface of the moon. Through Transmitter Beattie explores this process of physical investigation, a human desire to reaffirm their place in the world while at the same time searching for something beyond the physical self.

David Beattie received an MA in Visual Art Practices from Dun Laoghaire IADT in 2006. Solo shows include Temple Bar Gallery & Studios, Dublin (2011); RUA RED, Dublin (2011); Mattress Factory Art Museum, Pittsburgh, USA (2010); Mercer Union Centre for Contemporary Art, Toronto, Canada (2010).

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