May 3, 2025 – May 31, 2025
The exhibition presents recent collage and painting works by Edinburgh-based artists Beverley Hood and Catherine Street, who have a shared interest in bodily experience and representation.
In Beverley Hood’s collages, we see images of faces and limbs cut from magazines reconfigured to create complex and unsettling hybrid beings. In other works, she uses collaged generative AI to create beautifully monstrous renderings of fleshy compositions that bulge and multiply on the page.
Catherine Street chooses to paint on top of pages from medical textbooks. Scientific understandings of the body are partially obscured by smears of oil paint and thin trickles of colour that suggest networks of veins or nerves. Her work on paper also bears a relationship to performance where drawings become records of specific moments in time.
The exhibition brings together new works on paper that consider the meanings and conditions of our intricate and often perplexing physical relationships with ourselves, one another, society and the environment.
Catherine Street
Catherine works in painting, collage, video, sound, performance, sculpture and writing. Her work often connects to the interplay of the body and language. How do ideas formed of words affect the flesh of human beings? Catherine has recently had a solo exhibition of collages at Sierra Metro in Edinburgh, before that was part of Now 3 at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art and had a solo exhibition at the Reid Gallery Glasgow. Her writing has been published in a range of journals.
Beverley Hood
Beverley works in digital media, performance art, painting, collage and writing. Her work delves into the impact of technology and science on the body, relationships, and human experience. She collaborates with a range of interdisciplinary practitioners, including medical researchers, scientists, writers, technologists, dancers, actors, and composers. Beverley’s work has been performed, screened and exhibited at international galleries, museums and events including the Royal Alberta Museum, Canada, Bienal de Arte Digital, Brazil, Stockholm Kulturhuser, Sweden, Edinburgh International Festival, CCA Glasgow, and the Institute of Contemporary Art, London.
Beverley Hood’s work was made with the support of a Wellcome ScotPEN Award, the RSA Residencies for Scotland at Airlie Castle and Cove Park.
