Josie Beszant
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Selected Exhibitions:

2016: Fringe Arts Festival Bath, The Man Who Bought Stonehenge

2015: Project After Birth, White Moose Gallery, Barnstaple UK

2014: “The Cold Bath Road Mystery” commissioned by Chrysalis Arts for the Yorkshire Festival working with storyteller Matthew Bellwood and puppeteer Vivien Mousdell.

2013: Treasured Fragments Southwell Minster, Nottinghamshire

2013: The Adrian Henri Poetry in Art Prize (shortlisted), Twenty Twenty Gallery Much Wenlock, Shropshire.

2012: Collage Centennial, Pagosa Springs Colorado

2012: Harrogate Open, Mercer Gallery

2012: International Collage Exchange, Percy Thompson Gallery New Zealand

2011-15 & 2017: Participated in North Yorkshire Open Studios

2010: Lost and Found solo show at Farfield Mill Sedbergh

2008: A1 exhibition Richmond Station

2008: Rural Arts Thirsk

2007: Great North Art Show Ripon

2007: Joint exhibition with Hester Cox at Blake Head café gallery York

2002: Joint exhibition with Hester Cox at Helmsley Arts Centre

In my work since 1994 when I founded The Gallery in Masham I have curated over 50 exhibitions here and elsewhere. A selected few in recent years include:

2013: 35, solo show for John Degnan

2010: Home, solo show for Hester Cox.

2010: Roofs and Branches, solo show for Janis Goodman

2009: Four Seasons in one day (Ian Scott Massie, Pamela Knight, Gareth Buxton, Lesley Birch)

2007: Solus, solo show for Ed Kluz.

Residencies/Visiting artist:
2016: Artist in residence/guest speaker Portsmouth University conference: Modernity and the European mind: writing the past, constructing identities

2010: Guest artist (alongside Rosie Scott Massie) at the postcard fair, part of the Edwardian Postcard Project at Lancaster University

2006: Artist in residence at the UK Synaesthesia Conference at Oxford University

Other Projects

I am one of the founder members of Masham Arts Festival, a celebration of the best most unusual art events and creations in the north of England.

I am one of four founders of Artison.

I am a founder/organiser of Crafted By Hand, a contemporary craft event in Masham, North Yorkshire.