b. 1985, Margate, UK. Lives and works in London.

MA Contemporary Art Practice, Royal College of Art (2025).
Recipient of the Sir Frank Bowling Scholarship (2024–25).

Charmaine Beneyto’s work engages motherhood, domestic ritual, diaspora, and the littoral through constraint and locality. The maternal structures the practice as both subject and method, shaping a way of thinking grounded in lineage, material condition, and lived interiority. Drawing from everyday environments, she considers how memory adheres to surface and how relational experience is carried within ordinary materials.

Born on England’s south coast to an English mother and a British‑born Jamaican father, her practice attends to questions of inheritance, distance, and the uneven transmission of cultural memory. Experiences of partial connection and diasporic fragmentation inform an ongoing negotiation between presence and absence, intimacy and estrangement.

Working across painting, text, installation, sound, photography, performance, and film, she employs domestic and found materials as both medium and site. In dialogue with abstraction, layered compositions negotiate containment and exposure, intimacy and distance. The work unfolds from within the conditions it inhabits.

Alongside her studio practice, she contributes to contemporary feminist discourse on the formation and transmission of maternal knowledge across interrupted lineages, informed by matricentric feminism and contemporary motherhood studies.

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