Artist
Becks Butler
Becks Butler is a Lecturer at the Faculty of Design,GCD. She has presented work in various group shows in spaces such as illuminations, Pallas Projects, The Royal Irish Academy and The Complex.
Becks was awarded the M11 PerCent for Art Commission (2019) with her collaborators and recently presented Performing the Post-human at the Museum of Contemporary Photography of Ireland in association with PhotoIreland’s Critical Academy (2019). Her new body of work ‘Loopies Field’ was recently supported by Culture Ireland initiative #IrelandPerforms (2020).
Loopies Field
Loopies Field investigates a modern image of agriculture in Ireland through the performance of labour, capturing individuals as they perform themselves in familiar environments. Technology has somewhat changed the conditions of being a farmer in Ireland today. Having had a career in agriculture, Becks is returning to the industry to explore agri economies' effect on farm size, social living and attitudes as we face a future of diversification. By incorporating contemporary practices and traditional photographic techniques, this photographic series explores its themes through studies of architecture, labourers and a new mechanised industry.