BETH MCALESTER

Beth McAlester is a Northern Irish artist based in London. Her practice centres on painting, exploring themes of identity, commemoration, and place through semi-biographical narratives rooted in post-Troubles contexts across the UK and Ireland. Working primarily on wood, her paintings reflect on personal and collective memory, using material and image to question how histories are constructed and carried.

She is currently a student at the Royal Academy Schools, London and completed a BFA in Fine Art at the Slade School of Fine Art. In 2024, she was artist in residence at Bienno Borgo Artisti, Italy, and in 2023 received The Painters Stainers’ Company Scholarship. Recent exhibitions include On the Conditions of Bodily Presence at The Tagli, London, Fragments III, at Commune, Vienna and All The Small Things II at Soup Gallery, London.