Katriona Beales

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#wip #drawingisthinking #inthestudio Water-based paint on Khaldi paper - A3

More #wip... thinking through hands - links, chains, chainmail, protection / resistance to techno-feudalisms.... @space_studios_london #inthestudio

some impressions from last evenings POST ANALOGUE LABYRINTH VI [BERLIN EDITION] screening many thanks to all the participating artists: @bealesabout @videosmithery Markus Soukup @shelley_theodore @emmatod1 Chiz Turnross @davey_whitcraft @colette_whittington and many thanks to @das.institut for making this video art screening evening possible! It was a great show in the very excellent space of the ABTEILUNG FÜR ALLES ANDERE / ACKERSTRASSE 18 / 10115 BERLIN

#wip #inthestudio @space_studios_london

POST ANALOGUE LABYRINTH VI [P.A.L. VI - BERLIN EDITION] a video art screening evening event participating artists: @bealesabout @videosmithery Markus Soukup @shelley_theodore @emmatod1 Chiz Turnross @davey_whitcraft @colette_whittington SATURDAY 7TH OF FEBRUARY 2026 18:00 - 22:00 INSTITUT FÜR ALLES MÖGLICHE → ABTEILUNG FÜR ALLES ANDERE ACKERSTRASSE 18 / 10115 BERLIN many thanks to @das.institut for making this screening event possible!

Highlights from a much needed gallery crawl day yesterday. Most images from @_jasleen.kaur_ stunning show @hollybush_gardens which closes today. Catch it if you can. So careful, weighty, considered, purposeful. Loved it Jasleen. Also Slippers from @pavilionpavilion_ loved them more than the exhibition though made me feel I was on a bit of a weird spa trip in a strange luxury non-space. Also Extraordinary Arthur Jafa show @sadiecoleshq - this Prince film is something else. Hallucinatory through it's repetition, adding 3 short frames each time to the same segment, makes you look and look again at gesture, race & gender. So good. Some AI process had been applied to each of the still images so they had that slight feeling of a generative Ai image - a bit too complete if you know what I mean. Just added to the intensity. Also Not pictured current show @tinagallery___ is very difficult to photograph but these intense little typewriter drawings by a Benedictine monk who spent his weekends loving the highlife in Soho. Very good. Food for the soul.

Got some slow time in today #inthestudio @space_studios_london #wip Cotton embroidery thread on natural linen.

Detail of 'Hold Release III' (2025) 3 Digital prints on Organza, 139x139cm. With hand sewn glass beads. Displayed layered, secured by magnets. The small dots are 3mil seed beads, delicately added to the top digital print. 'Hold-Release III' and 'Weights' (both 2025) develop Beales' on-going research into post-digital culture and mental health, reflecting on different strategies to manage anxiety, including breath-work, meditation tools, repetitive movement and sensory toys. For 'Hold-Release III' a series of small sculptures were made by squeezing hold of, and then releasing, different types of clay. This clenching and unclenching of the hands, is echoed throughout the body; in the jaw and shoulders where we tend to hold stress and, in our breath, as we hold and then release anxiety on the exhale. The small sculptures were then used as the basis for a series of drawings, enlarged in 'Hold-Release III' as digital prints on organza. The colours references the language of sensory toys like pop-its and fidget spinners. Shown in the Researcher's Exhibition, University Art Biennial, ADEMA Inca, Mallorca, June to July 2025. @ademauniversidad @university_art_biennial @unioftheartslondon

'Hold-Release III' (2025) 3 Digital prints on Organza with hand sewn glass beads. Displayed layered, secured by magnets. Total dimensions: 139cm x 139cm. As it is organza it is translucent and there's a very tactile quality to the way the prints overlap, creating a shifting moiré effect as the viewer walks by the work. 'Hold-Release III' and 'Weights' (both 2025) develop Beales' on-going research into post-digital culture and mental health, reflecting on different strategies to manage anxiety, including breath-work, meditation tools, repetitive movement and sensory toys. For 'Hold-Release III' a series of small sculptures were made by squeezing hold of, and then releasing, different types of clay. This clenching and unclenching of the hands, is echoed throughout the body; in the jaw and shoulders where we tend to hold stress and, in our breath, as we hold and then release anxiety on the exhale. The small sculptures were then used as the basis for a series of drawings, enlarged in 'Hold-Release III' as digital prints on organza. The colours references the language of sensory toys like pop-its and fidget spinners. Installation image from the Researcher's Exhibition, part of the University Art Biennial at ADEMA Inca, Mallorca, June to July 2025. @ademauniversidad @university_art_biennial @unioftheartslondon

Ntang Dreaming (1989) Emily Kam Kngwarray

New series of drawings coming together - heavy necklaces #inthestudio @space_studios_london Oil stick on water colour paper, A3