bio:

Béatrice Carlson is an interdisciplinary artist whose practice bridges contemporary jewellery and visual art. For the past eight years, she has explored the body as a canvas, developing a personal and intimate narrative through her work. She creates both adornment for the body and bijou for the wall, often incorporating porcelain as a reference to harmony, peaceful moments, and the rituals of tea time. Her practice reflects on the relativity of preciousness — connecting memories, fragments of the past, porcelain shards, and jewellery — while questioning the values we attach to materials. By embracing recycling and upcycling, Carlson challenges compulsive consumption and redefines the notion of what is truly precious, grounding her work in a philosophy of circular sustainability.

statement:

“Discarded, rejected, amputated objects and porcelain. I repair, mend, stitch. I make and I talk for the forgotten.” I have been mudlarking porcelain shards on the beach for some years. I photograph to research their provenance, circa and process. I feel the need to pursue their story or create a new one, I feel the responsibility to be their voice. Keeping their original shape and stains, I polish and drill them if I have to but, my intrusion in their bodies stays minimal. Then, I adorn with discarded (beer) cans, imperfect Freshwater Pearls, recycled materials from my fashion time in costume jewellery and printmaking practice. Porcelain found mostly refer to the harmonious and peaceful moment: tea time. They talk about the relativity of preciousness: Memories, past, porcelain shards, jewellery? My work is about reducing compulsive consumption by focusing on recycling/upcycling and rethinking the notion of preciousness… Circular sustainability.