Author Archives: Katy Beinart

The Saltways journey begins…

Posted on July 11, 2018 by Katy Beinart

On 3rd May, I arrived in Gloucester with a sculpture in several pieces, and around 60 sacks of salt from different international locations, which I had collected and bagged into printed sacks. Scorpio, our mode of transport, was already moored … Continue reading →

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Droitwich Salt resurrected

Posted on April 24, 2018 by Katy Beinart

In March I travelled to Droitwich again, to host a public meeting about the Saltways project and to pay a visit to the new saltworks at Churchfields Farm. The farm already makes its own (delicious) ice cream, and last year … Continue reading →

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Wych barges and salt cargoes

Posted on November 29, 2017 by Katy Beinart

It’s been a busy few months. In July, I visited Margaret Rowley, who holds the Max Sinclair archive of canal related photographs and ephemera. Max’s son Iain and fellow Ring artist Heather Wastie joined me and we looked through an … Continue reading →

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Droitwich Salt Works

Posted on May 15, 2017 by Katy Beinart

Over the past 2 years, I’ve been writing up my PhD thesis about the work I’ve done on salt and its stories. I’ve nearly finished the full draft and am planning to submit at the end of the year, and in … Continue reading →

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Mapping salt

Posted on July 29, 2014 by Katy Beinart

I’ve started to write up and whilst doing this I’ve been making a series of maps in the studio which range in scale from a market to a city to a region, and describe the journeys I’ve made in search … Continue reading →

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Goute Sel

Posted on January 5, 2014 by Katy Beinart

My link to Haiti from Brixton is a shop in Brixton Market selling ‘spiritual products’. I made a proposal for the 3rd Ghetto Biennale in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, to research connections to salt in Vodou, the national religion, which also doubles … Continue reading →

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Poetics and Politics of Salt

Posted on November 22, 2013 by Katy Beinart

At the opening of my exhibition in Lisbon, a woman I am chatting to tells me she liked the work, and it reminded her that Pessoa was initially pro-Salazar (the long-time dictator of Portugal) as he thought the man was … Continue reading →

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Salted paper printing

Posted on October 17, 2013 by Katy Beinart

For some time I’ve been reading about the earliest type of photographic printing, made using paper soaked in salt, which was then painted with silver nitrate and exposed to the sun (with a negative, making a contact print). While I … Continue reading →

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Fish Markets and Flea Markets

Posted on September 8, 2013 by Katy Beinart

I went to the Mercado De Ribiera, Lisbon’s oldest indoor market, around midday on Friday. Some of the stalls were packing up, but the cavernous space was half-empty, anyway. A couple of stalls sold bacalhau (salt cod) alongside products imported … Continue reading →

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Salinas and Saudades – Part two

Posted on September 3, 2013 by Katy Beinart

The next morning before leaving Figueira, we pass an old shop with strange window displays combining typewriters, tins, dolls and plastic flowers. Inside Casa Encarnacao (which is a functioning grocery store) we have a coffee and Pastel de nata and … Continue reading →

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