Beth Carter is a visual artist based near Bristol, and an Academician at the Royal West of England Academy. Over the past 30 years she has created sculptures and drawings which often integrate the human figure with (amongst other things) the animal world, creating mythological hybrids and extraordinary fictional compositions. Through this imagery Carter has developed both a personal symbolic language and a lens through which she explores recurring themes of duality, transformation, power and vulnerability. Carter says of her work: “Paradoxically, I find the use of human-animal hybrids somehow conveys our human concerns or predicaments more directly than the human figure alone. The imagery resonates more directly with our psyche and emotions allowing us to by-pass our intellect and access the dreaming, intuitive parts of ourselves”. 

Carter is the artist for 'Mougins Monumental 2026’ in France, 30 of her sculptures are installed throughout the village until November.

In 2023, three of Carter's life size Minotaur sculptures were loaned to the Commune of Mougins for exhibition at the Chapelle Notre-Dame-de-Vie as part of the events to mark the 50th anniversary of the death of Pablo Picasso. Her ‘Minotaur on a Box’ sculpture is exhibited at FAMM (Femmes Artistes du Musée de Mougins) having been held in the Levett Collection since 2013 and, in 2024, was loaned to the Louvre-Lens for their exhibition 'Animaux Fantastiques’. 

Carter is represented by galleries in the UK, USA and Belgium, her work is held in private collections internationally as well as the permanent collections of the Muskegon Museum of Art, MI, USA; the New Salem Museum and Academy of Fine Art, MA, USA; and FAMM (Femmes Artistes du Musée de Mougins), France.