Glasgow International Festival of Contemporary Art
 

Josie Perry

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 Josie Perry is participating in, as well as the artist’s individual practice.

Josie Perry is a Glasgow-based artist mainly working in drawing and collaborative projects. Recent exhibitions include The Thieves at CCA Intermedia Gallery, Glasgow 2024 which presented a series of drawings and a publication based on a social science fiction text by Francis Jones. Since 2019 Josie has also made work part of the duo Josie Perry & Daphne Simons, centring around the project Plasma Spring: – a series of comics and related exhibitions fictionalising figures from art history and pop culture through an irreverent queer lens. The most recent instalment, Plasma Spring: Halloweel was published by Glom Press in 2022 followed by a solo presentation of related drawings at San Mei Gallery, London 2023.

Projects

  • Programme
    Josie Perry
    Where a castle meets the sky
    The Pipe Factory
    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.