Forrest Beasley-Birch (b. 1995) is an emerging artist practising in Naarm | Melbourne, Australia, working across still and moving image, installation, and technological systems. 

Beasley-Birch’s practice emerges from a photographic lineage, yet departs from its representational imperatives, where alterity emerges through the collapse of familiar structures, and hyperreality distorts the boundaries between representation and presence. His practice inhabits the confluence between virtuality and reality, where these realms are reconstituted through systems of transformation and abstraction. 

His works transfigure the virtual and the physical, unfolding as an emergent synthesis of space. Through an immersive fieldwork-based practice, he traverses an interstitial passage between permanence and transience, parasitism and symbiosis, physicality and virtuality, embryonic and evolved. This approach does not merely refract interstitia but enacts them, unfolding as flickering realities.

Beasley-Birch’s works enact spectral conditions in which structures surface briefly before dissolving, offering transitory glimpses of worlds in motion. Each work operates as an emergent realm rather than a fixed composition, assembling moments where form, sensation, and afterimage remain suspended in a psychic state of ongoing reconstitution.

Beasley-Birch is a graduate of the Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne (Bachelor of Fine Arts, Honours, 2024) and Photography Studies College (Bachelor of Photography, Fine Art, 2021).