Rebecca Beinart

Rebecca Beinart is a Nottingham based artist, activist, educator, gardener and cook. Her work invites you to taste your surroundings, sniff out stories and listen to other inhabitants of a place. She makes bespoke equipment for urban expeditions, and interventions in public places that playfully ask serious questions. The temporary spaces she creates are stowed away and carried off without leaving a trace.

Her project for Hinterland, Field Kitchen, is a bespoke bicycle trailer that incorporates the necessary equipment to cook edible plants found on expeditions in urban wilds. Attempting self-sufficiency, the mobile kitchen uses rocket stoves powered by waste and wood to cook foraged food.

Field Kitchen makes physical and social interventions into public spaces, offering an invitation to people to smell and taste their botanical locale. The project examines what we can find in our immediate surroundings for sustenance, pleasure and well being – raising questions about our relationship with plants and food, our reliance on imported goods, and lost fields of knowledge.

Throughout the project, Beinart will be collaborating with specialists on wild food, fungi, herbal medicine, folklore, pickling and preserving. In a series of events, Field Kitchen will conduct experiments in different locations, to discover their potential for sustenance.

Rebecca recently completed the unique MA in Arts & Ecology at Dartington College of Arts.