Glasgow International Festival of Contemporary Art
 

Emelia Kerr Beale

A black ink drawing of a crowd of people on a white, torn-out sketchbook page. Most of the figures are pictured from the neck or shoulders up and have cartoonish, exaggerated features. They are rendered in scratchy pen lines with cross-hatched shading or no shading at all. The figures are densely packed together with some emerging out of an indistinct shadowy backdrop
Suds McKenna, Untitled, 2023
Courtesy of the artist
suspended on a curved wire frame hung from ceiling knitted cardigans with extra long arms, in a room with wooden flooring, fireplace, wooden sash windows and dark green walls
Emelia Kerr Beale, Trust for Support, 2022
Installation view, Edinburgh Art Festival 2022, French Institute, Edinburgh
Photograph: Sally Jubb
A cast aluminium lamb is posed leaping. The lamb has shiny markings across its body and a rough salty surface. There is a small pink gash in the side of the lamb. The lamb sits in front of a white painted wood background
Jonny Walker, I slipped through the veil, 2022
Courtesy of the artist
A coloured pencil drawing depicting a woman with curly hair and a green dress. In her hand she holds a wine glass which is spilling red liquid. Over her left shoulder a swan with teeth bites a lock of her hair.
Josie Perry, Tamara and the Swan, 2022
Courtesy of the artist and San Mei Gallery, London. Photo by Jack Elliot Edwards

The images shown above represent the Glasgow International 2024 project that Emelia Kerr Beale is participating in, as well as the artist’s individual practice.

Emelia Kerr Beale works across drawing, sculpture and textile to articulate complex bodily experiences. They are currently interested in historical and contemporary modes of textile production, and the implications this has for machines and the bodies that use them. Other threads in their practice include the transmission of generational knowledge through familial collaboration. Recent exhibitions include There Has to Be Somewhere, Grand Union Gallery, Birmingham 2023, pain folds its legs, Edinburgh Sculpture workshop, Edinburgh 2023, and Platform:2022, Institut Français d'Ecosse, Edinburgh 2022.

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