As part of my residency at Egenis, University of Exeter, I will be screening my film I have co-directed and created artwork for in January. It will be screened in Munich and Berlin and then in London. More details to follow.

Cut and Paste 1 was selected for this years Summer Show at The Royal Academy and subsequently sold to a private collector. I have always wanted to show at the RA ever since the Sensation exhibition in the late 90's. The piece explores our relationship with gene editing in a material we are intuitively familiar with: clay

See here for more details about opening times

​The Mutation Series will be exhibited at Presence: The Figure in British Postwar and Contemporary Sculpture in July. I am thrilled to be participating in such a wonderful show with such wonderful sculptures and esteemed artists. The show focuses on the body and the curators felt it would be a lovely idea to exhibit Mutations outside, since it explores the physical body in a different way, focusing on the micro and macro perspective. Please see here for more details. 

Wherever the Two Shall Meet presents a new body of work that explores how we perceive the rapid and confusing field of genomics, through the use of clay and concrete. 

For more details please follow this link to New Art Centre . The wonderful science writer, Philip Ball, will be opening the exhibition. RSVP to rsvp@sculpture.uk.com should you wish to attend the opening on the 23rd of September 12-3 pm.

Jacob has recently commenced an artist residency at Egenis, a Centre for the Study of Life Sciences at Exeter University. This will culminate in a collaboration with Professor Sabina Leonelli and the creation of new works in 2024. This will be a unique opportunity to tackle the more challenging and abstract aspects of data collection, storage and usage. It is incredibly exciting to be allowed to collaborate within such a dynamic and pioneering centre.

Jacob is really proud to be made a fellow of the Royal Society of Sculptors, a world renowned contemporary sculpture society. They are a wonderful artist-led, membership organisation, supporting and connecting sculptors throughout their careers.

Please view more images of the new work here

​The Mutating Story catalogue is now available to purchase for £12 which includes postage and packaging. Please contact the studio alexa@jacobvanderbeugel.com to organise your copy

​This presentation was given for the Hepworth Research Network. To see this talk please follow this link. The talk presents Jacob's work in relation to contemporary developments in concrete sculpture and architecture. A recently restored sculpture by Barabara Hepworth called Turning Forms (1950) prompted a closer evaluation of the work and contemporary concrete practices. For more info on The Hepworth Research Network please follow link

​After being exhibited at Beelden aan Zee, The Netherlands, the Mutation series has been installed at The New Art Centre.

Very pleased to announce a recently completed commission for the Dutch Royal Family at palace Huis ten Bosch. For more images please see full gallery. For an excellent article by the ministry of interior affairs please see here.

‘These beautiful and corporeal concrete panels are architectural on one hand and flesh-like on the other. The overall impression of the artwork is that of an abstracted tissue bank containing all the endeavours past, present and future of the building.’  Jacob van der Beugel

I am excited to announce the completion of a major art commission for the University of Cambridge Department of Chemistry. The commission is for the façade of the new Chemistry of Health building which will house researchers working to understand and combat disorders including Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s diseases.

The work which adjoins the main entrance is a 10-metre long, 2.5-metre high series of 240 highly detailed, handmade, self-healing concrete aggregate panels that depict the progression of neurodegenerative illness. Developed in consultation with scientists who will work in the building and RH Partnership Architects it creates a dynamic and poignant focus to the façade of the building and relates to its important research role.

Photography courtesy of Paul Riddle Photography.

Jacob is thrilled to announce that he will be the artist in residence at the Wallace Collection, London. 

During this residency, Jacob will address themes of legacy and philanthropy through the history of the Wallace Collection and Sir Richard and Lady Wallace, exploring the motivation behind their incredible gift to Britain and the legacy they left behind. As part of the residency van der Beugel will take part in a round-table discussion at our international conference in November 2018 – Sir Richard Wallace and His Age: Connoisseurs, Collectors and Philanthropists.

Image and Text courtesy of the Wallace Collection.

Treasures from Chatsworth, Episode 2: Commissioning Artworks Across Generations

An original video series produced by Sotheby’s.

There is a rich history of patronage at Chatsworth, which is filled with works commissioned directly from artists of their time, be it the early 19th century or the early 21st. This episode explores the relationship of trust between the artist and their commissioner, highlighting Jacob van der Beugel’s 2014 DNA Wall and Antonio Canova’s The Sleeping Endymion, made almost exactly 200 years earlier.

I am delighted to announce that Expression Repression (The Missing Story) is being exhibited at the award winning Artist House at the prestigious New Art Centre. The work is available for sale through the New Art Centre. For any enquiries please contact nac@sculpture.uk.com.

As part of London Design Festival (16th-24th September) Memento Mori (2007) will be exhibited at and sponsored by Tomasso Brothers Fine Art, Jermyn Street, London. 

The gallery is open from 10am-6pm and we would be delighted to welcome you.

Jacob will be undertaking an artist residency at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, a genome research institute primarily funded by the Wellcome Trust. The residency will commence at the beginning of June 2015. Jacob's area of focus will be ways of representing emerging areas of research within cancer genetics.

In 2015 Jacob was elected a member of The Royal British Society of Sculptors.

The North Sketch Sequence has been voted as the 2014 winner in the residential category of this year's CODAworx awards.This is an international competition judged by established and very significant members of the art, design and architecture world.

A major new permanent ceramic installation called The North Sketch Sequence has been created for Chatsworth House and is described as the ‘most important art installation at Chatsworth since the creation of the Sculpture Gallery in 1832’.

The North Sketch Sequence is open to the public from 16 3 14. It depicts the DNA of The Duke and Duchess of Devonshire and their son and daughter-in-law, Lord and Lady Burlington, in a highly original interpretation of traditional portraiture. A fifth central portrait has been created that depicts ‘Everyman’, highlighting the importance of visitors to Chatsworth.  

The work has been created in association with gallerist and curator Joanna Bird.

A large scale architectural installation, The Barley House Commission, has recently been completed for collectors in Suffolk.  A three way collaborative film has been produced of the installation with music composed by Felix Erskine and directed by Oliver Page and Andrew Farrar.

To mark the occasion of the first Ashes Test to be played in Wales, I have collaborated with Freddie Yauner to produce an artwork deriving from his residency during the npower Ashes.

Match day crowds were asked to draw the ashes urn, 500 of their drawings will be used to create ceramic tiles.

For more information visit: www.freddieyauner.co.uk