Josie Perry

Large painting framed in a black frame and hung from the ceiling with chain. The painting depicts multiple figures in fluorescent paint

Detail of fluorescent airbrushed painted head with ear ring on canvas.

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 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.

Framed drawing in colour pencil, depicting in fine detail 2 figures kissing, hung on a wall with abstracted pink figures and faces.

Framed drawing in colour pencil. Abstract with images of eels and 2 heads.

Image of a resin cast mottled moth placed on a textured white background.

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.

2 silver cut out silhouette of angels in mirror image on brown paper.

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

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.

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

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