ABOUT THE ARTIST
Beau Roberts is a multidisciplinary artist working across ceramics, illustration, and screen printing, having recently graduated with a BA in Fine Art at Central Saint Martins.
His practice engages with trans identity, masculinity, queer kinship, and the politics of care, blending material exploration with academic research. Roberts’ work draws from classical sculpture, commemorative ceramics, tattoo iconography, and queer archival materials, often translating these influences into ceramic forms.
His solo exhibition Cockery (VDF Dalston, 2023) featured ceramic plates with hand-drawn decals and has been shown in Queeriosities (Museum of the Home, 2023), FRUIT, and Ethereal Maison (2024). His recent ceramic body cast series, exhibited at CSM Degree show (2025) and The Lethaby gallery (2025), examines the transmasculine form through ornamentation and classical aesthetics.
Roberts’ dissertation, Is That a Boy or a Girl?, critically examines transmasculine identity, passing, and visibility in art and literature. Focusing on skin and embodiment as central motifs, the research explores how the body functions both as a site of resistance and as a tool for self-determination. This academic work informs his artistic practice, particularly in how he approaches identity, visibility, and the complexities of being seen as trans.
ARTIST STATEMENT
As a multidisciplinary artist working across ceramics, illustration and printmaking, I use material culture to explore transmasculinity, queer intimacy and family relationships. Drawing from tattoo design, classical sculpture, domestic craft traditions and queer archival material, I examine how identity is carried, inherited and performed across both the body and within the home.
Growing up queer and trans in the UK drives me to explore societal expectations around masculinity, belonging, sexuality and survival. I often reference queer and trans representation within historical periods that have been overlooked, or purposefully excluded drawing connections between decorative and political expression. Through these influences, I explore what it means to archive queer and trans lives within objects designed to outlive the body itself.
Across my fine art practice, I create pieces that function as both personal relics and acts of resistance. Ceramic plates, body casts, hand-drawn decals and sculptural forms become sites for storytelling, preserving traces of queer life and trans experience through processes associated with inheritance, sentimentality and domesticity. My practice is deeply informed by familial relationships and shared making, particularly through learning alongside my mother, who is also a ceramicist. I subvert mediums often associated with cleanliness, fragility and purity to create works that evoke a sense of rebellion.
At the centre of my practice is a desire to celebrate queer resilience, resisting shame and rigidity in favour of softness and visibility as forms of survival.
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2025 - The Sunken Dream Project
Shipton Street Gallery, London
Personal project led by Emile Bloom
2025 - Re:generating Creativity
The Lethaby Gallery, London
Showcase for graduate and staff projects
2024 - FRUIT
Greatorex Street Gallery, London
LGBTQ+ History Month exhibition curated by Alex Free
2024 - Ethereal Mansion
East London
Site-specific exhibition curated by Sally Hernandez Escobar
2023 - Queeriosities
Museum of the Home, Haggerston, London
Art and makers fair organised by Davy Pittoors
2023 - COCKERY COLLECTION
VFD Dalston, London
Solo exhibition

