Glasgow International Festival of Contemporary Art

Where a castle meets the sky

Large painting framed in a black frame and hung from the ceiling with chain. The painting depicts multiple figures in fluorescent paint
Suds McKenna, Where a castle meets the sky, 2024
Installation view The Pipe Factory, Glasgow. Part of Glasgow International 2024
Courtesy of the artists. Image: Sean P Campbell
Detail of fluorescent airbrushed painted head with ear ring on canvas.
Suds McKenna, Where a castle meets the sky, 2024
Installation view The Pipe Factory, Glasgow. Part of Glasgow International 2024
Courtesy of the artists. Image: Sean P Campbell
A pattern of a shirt and trousers is laid flat on a wall, decorated with art including the words 'lust' and 'envy' . On the white wall around the piece are drawings in pink.
Emelia Kerr Beale, Where a castle meets the sky, 2024
Installation view, The Pipe Factory, Glasgow. Part of Glasgow International 2024
Courtesy of the artists. Photo: Sally Jubb
A framed artwork is displayed on a wall, it features two people kissing. In the foreground is a pipe which has black plastic butterflys attached to it.
Emelia Kerr Beale, Suds McKenna, Josie Perry, Jonny Walker, Where a castle meets the sky, 2024
Installation view, The Pipe Factory, Glasgow. Part of Glasgow International 2024
Courtesy of the artists. Photo: Sally Jubb
Framed drawing in colour pencil, depicting in fine detail 2 figures kissing, hung on a wall with abstracted pink figures and faces.
Suns McKenna and Josie Perry, Where a castle meets the sky, 2024
Installation view, The Pipe Factory, Glasgow. Part of Glasgow International 2024
Courtesy of the artists. Image: Sean P Campbell
Framed drawing in colour pencil. Abstract with images of eels and 2 heads.
Josie Perry, Where a castle meets the sky, 2024
Installation view The Pipe Factory, Glasgow. Part of Glasgow International 2024
Courtesy of the artists. Image: Sean P Campbell
Image of a resin cast mottled moth placed on a textured white background.
Jonny Walker, Where a castle meets the sky, 2024
Installation view, The Pipe Factory, Glasgow. Part of Glasgow International 2024
Courtesy of the artist. Image: Sean P Campbell
Free standing metal sculpture placed in an white room with white pillars. The sculpture has a thin tubular frame, with a panel of weaved thin sheet metal.
Jonny Walker, Where a castle meets the sky, 2024
Installation view The Pipe Factory, Glasgow. Part of Glasgow International 2024
Courtesy of the artists. Image: Sean P Campbell
2 silver cut out silhouette of angels in mirror image on brown paper.
Emelia Kerr Beale, Where a castle meets the sky, 2024
Installation view The Pipe Factory, Glasgow. As Part of Glasgow International 2024
Courtesy of the artists. Image: Sean P Campbell
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
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
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

Where a castle meets the sky brings together works by Emelia Kerr Beale, Suds McKenna, Josie Perry and Jonny Walker. The exhibition engages expansively with figuration and themes of queer sociality through drawing, sculpture and installation.

An audio walkthrough of the exhibition is available to listen to here