The first solo exhibition from the multidisciplinary artist and musician Hailey Beavis opens at Sett Studios 127 Leith Walk Edinburgh tomorrow [Saturday 13 July].
Blending expressive paintings, collage, cut-up poetry and textiles, Beavis crafts vibrant pieces which emerge via an intuitive process of reworking and rearranging shapes and colours.
The work on display in SOFT captures the irony of trying to cement emotional memory as it shifts, blends and erodes, giving form and voice to emotions and ambiguous narratives.
Hailey Beavis said: “My work explores nonlinear moments of human existence, examined through layers of collage, paint, and narrative woven from found texts.
The process of resolving a piece is much like solving a sliding puzzle or discovering an image in a magic eye.”
Beavis has been working creatively with people with disabilities for 20 years.
She runs art and music workshops for people with dementia, as well as creating immersive sensory environments for people with profound and multiple learning disabilities.
She performs music under own name as well as with Both Hands, an electro-synth duo who will be performing at the opening party for SOFT tonight Friday 12 July from 6pm – 9pm.
SOFT is at Sett Studios, 127 Leith Walk, from 13-16 July.
John graduated from Telford College in 2010 with an HNC in Practical Journalism and since then he worked for the North Edinburgh News, The Southern Reporter, the Irish News Review and The Edinburgh Reporter. In addition he has been published in the Edinburgh Evening News and the Hibernian FC Programme.
