About Beth
Beth Dynowski
Art & Design Lecturer
Beth Dynowski is an artist based in Glasgow who brings a wealth of experience to her teaching here at Glasgow Kelvin College. She supports students in developing their creative potential to thrive in the art and design world and beyond.
Beth’s work often takes the form of installation, performance, publishing, public projects and working collaboratively in community settings. Selected past exhibitions and projects include: Songs for Work, Generator Projects, Dundee; What does open learning look like here?, School of Commons, University of Zurich; Magnetic North Lead Artist in Residence, MacRobert Theatre, Stirling; Cool Down, COP26 Fringe, Glasgow; Songs for Work, Glasgow International; Beyond Perception, University of Aberdeen; Dear Green, ZKU Berlin; Drawing Connections, Siena Art Institute. Her work was shortlisted for The White Review Poet's Prize, The Emerging Art Foundation Writing Prize and has been published in Adjacent Pineapple, Gutter and Dancing Girl Press.
Beth has founded a range of creative spaces, networks and public projects both independently and for the public sector. She works with our students on how to do this kind of work beyond college. She co-founded The Pipe Factory in Glasgow, a permanent arts space in the East End, and currently works with Strangefield, where our students have the opportunity to learn more about working in arts organisations.
Selected past public projects include; Free Association, a peer-led learning commons at CCA Glasgow with Sacha Carr and Alice Brook; Community Out of Bounds Scotland’s first post-academic programme for socially engaged art practice funded by Paul Hamlyn Foundation with Jonathan Baxter; Temporary Art School an experimental public art school with Peacock Visual Arts; she was Lead Artist in establishing FreshFruit the young people's programme at the Fruitmarket Gallery; and worked as Artistic Pathways Manager in Aberdeen overseeing creative development for children, young people and adults across the city. Beth worked as a care worker for adults in supported housing for several years across Greater Glasgow. As a result of her activity in the UK, she was commissioned to publish extensive research on self organisation and public resource creation in the arts across the US.
Beth also works as a Lecturer at Forth Valley College where she primarily teaches on BA and Hons Art & Design. Prior to joining Glasgow Kelvin College she was a Teaching Fellow and Tutor at Edinburgh College of Art. She holds a Masters from the Centre for Modern Thought, a Masters in Education with Distinction from the University of Aberdeen and a First Class Honours in Sculpture from Glasgow School of Art. She is a Doctoral Candidate within the School of Art at ECA funded by Scottish Graduate School of the Arts & Humanities.