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

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

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

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.

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.

A large framed artwork hangs from the ceiling of a room, with windows surrounding. The artwork is abstract and colourful.

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.

A small framed artwork is displayed between two windows on a painted brick wall.

A room with brick walls that are painted white. Underneath a bay window is a semi circle of artworks displayed on the ground.

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.

Projects

Programme

Emelia Kerr Beale

Where a castle meets the sky

The Pipe Factory