Bea Ysolda (who's pen name is Yink) is currently studying her MA in Visual Communication at the Royal College of Art, following from graduating at Ravensbourne University in Illustration for Communication. She is a London-based multidisciplinary visual artist.
Bea's practice explores the intersections of archive, community, and sustainability, investigating how designed spaces—both physical and digital—shape social connections. Her work draws from sociological concepts such as the third place and urban loneliness, examining the ways in which environments influence collective interaction.
Process is central to her practice, with an emphasis on ethical and eco-conscious methods that cultivate a tactile, hand-made aesthetic. Through techniques like collage, drawing, risograph printing, screenprinting, and the use of secondhand materials—ranging from paper to metal—she creates work that prioritizes accessibility and connection with the audience.
Bea’s practice interrogates the static ideologies of archiving and manifestos by proposing anarchives—living, collaborative systems that reject preservation in favor of urgent, interdisciplinary dialogue. She engages in tactile explorations of waste (through plastic collagraphs and salvaged aluminum) and energy (examining the carbon footprint of data storage), transforming discarded materials into a visual language that questions consumption, memory, and collective responsibility.
The climate emergency, in her view, demands collaboration, action, and active documentation. Her work embraces outward-facing mechanisms—such as community hard-drive databases or burn-after-reading manifestos—to prioritize bottom-up resourcefulness, legibility, and hopeful accountability over top-down, wasteful neoliberal systems.
By framing waste as memory and energy as trade, Bea confronts the West’s "out of sight, out of mind" paralysis, asking: How, once confronted with what we discard, do we begin to repair our relationship with materials—how we use and reuse them? Her practice is, in some ways, an act of refusal: a resistance to letting collective existence go to waste.
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