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
Growing up queer and trans in Britain has shaped my approach to making, using personal experience to explore wider ideas around masculinity, belonging, sexuality, and survival. My work often centres forms and histories that have been overlooked or excluded, creating space for tenderness, humour, and vulnerability within conversations around trans embodiment.
As a multidisciplinary artist working across ceramics, illustration, and printmaking, I use material culture to explore transmasculinity, queer intimacy, family relationships, and the politics of care. Drawing from tattoo culture, classical sculpture, domestic craft traditions, and queer archival material, I examine how identity is carried, inherited, and performed across both the body and the home.
In my fine art practice, working primarily in clay, I create objects 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 family relationships and shared making, particularly through learning alongside my mother, who is also a ceramicist.
Alongside ceramics, I create screen prints, illustrations, and T-shirts, making work available at an affordable price to remain accessible to my community. I regularly sell through queer markets and community-led spaces, using printmaking as a way to share stories.
My work draws connections between the decorative and the political, combining references from sailor tattoos, Russian prison tattoos, Delftware, commemorative crockery, and queer visual culture. Through these influences, I explore what it means to archive queer and trans lives within objects designed to outlive the body itself.
At the centre of my practice is a desire to celebrate queer resilience, intimacy, and community, resisting shame and rigidity in favour of softness, connection, 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