Gabriele Beveridge
Gabriele Beveridge (b. 1985, Hong Kong) lives and works in London. She studied at Falmouth College of Arts, Cornwall, and the Slade School of Art, London, from which she graduated in 2010.
Beveridge is known for her sculptural and conceptual practice that combines materials as diverse as hand-blown glass, photo chemicals and faded advertisements found in beauty salon windows. Her assemblages put display on display, spotlighting the modular shelves that populate the innards of high-street shops, often combining them with slumped hand-blown glass forms that harness the material’s beauty, strangeness and ubiquity. They mimic the body and the way it’s displayed in a vastly expanding search space, where biology evolves with the natural and non-natural, the organic and inorganic. Rather than presenting a critique of commodity goods by way of simulation, Beveridge takes the cosmetic mechanisms that prop up consumer desire and carries them to their logical extreme. These cells, organs and hybrids live and evolve in familiar settings and suggest the seepage of some parallel reality into the prosaic.
Recent solo exhibitions include Packed Stars Diving, Seventeen Gallery, London (2022), Great Pretender, Kai Art Center, Tallinn (2021), Tender Greed at Bradley Ertaskiran, Montreal, CA (2019), Skin for Either One, Deweer Gallery, Otegem (2019), Eternity Anyways, Chewday’s, London (2016), Health and Strength, La Salle de Bains, Lyon (2015), By Mistake or Design, Zabludowicz Collection, London (2015), In a normal world I’d be there, Outpost, Norwich, UK (2014). Recent group exhibitions include Blink, Stavanger Art Museum, Stavanger, NO; Pre-Pop to Post-Human: Collage in the Digital Age, Hayward Touring, London, UK; Comrades of Time, Cell Project Space, London, UK; Desire, Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York, US; Physical and Virtual Bodies, Arnhem Museum of Modern Art, NL; La Chose Encadrée, Glasgow International, Scotland, UK; Folly, Emalin, London, UK. Beveridge’s work is held in public and private collections worldwide including: Museum Kunstpalast, DE, Stavanger Art Museum, DK, Collection of Larry Gagosian, US, Collection of Angela Missoni, IT, Zabludowicz Collection, UK.
Selected Works
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Gabriele Beveridge
'High Pink', Hand-blown glass, chrome shop-fittings, 140 x 70 x 50 cm, 2021
Photo: Damian Griffiths -
Gabriele Beveridge
'Old Joy', Freehand glass, metal bar, approx 70 x 15 x 40 cm, 2023
Photo: Damian Griffiths -
Gabriele Beveridge
'Odd Mercy', Freehand glass, acrylic sheet, 26 x 33 x 10cm, 2021
Photo: Damian Griffiths -
Gabriele Beveridge
'Source (iii)', Hand-blown mirrored glass on anodised aluminium , 42 x 27 x 15cm, 2023
Photo: Damaian Griffiths -
Gabriele Beveridge
'Fire on the Lake', Chemigram (Gelatin-silver print with beauty products and darkroom chemicals), custom-made frame, 42 x 52 x 7cm, 2020
Photo: Damian Griffiths -
Gabriele Beveridge
'Burning', Freehand glass, acrylic sheet, 25 x 30 x 8cm, 2022
Photo: Damia Griffiths
Exhibitions
Transitive Objects (coral what) ‒ Gabriele Beveridge, Melissa Gordon
-Affected by Objects ‒ Gabriele Beveridge, Erika Hock, Rita McBride
-Curriculum Vitae (CV)
BIOGRAPHY
Born 1985, Hong Kong
Lives and works in London
EDUCATION
2010
MA Fine Art Media, Slade School of Fine Art, London
2007
BA Photography, Falmouth College of Arts, Falmouth
RESIDENCIES
2019
Native Artist in Residence, Perpignan, France
2018
2018 Villa Lena Artist in Residence, Tuscany, Italy
2017
2017 West Dean Artist in Residence, Chichester
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2022
Packed Stars Dividing, Seventeen, London
Laps, with Carlos Reyes, Bradley Ertaskiran, Montreal, Canada
Stem, L21 Gallery, Palma, Spain
2021
Great Pretender, with Marge Monko, Kai Art Centre, Tallinn, Estonia
Aqueous Humour, with Natasja Mabesoone, Platform 6a, Deweer, Otegem, Belgium
2020
Softened Future Life, Freehouse, London
2019
Tender Greed, Parisian Laundry, Montreal, Canada
Skin for Either One, Deweer Gallery, Otegem, Belgium
2018
Live Dead World, Seventeen, London
2017
Soft Shrinking Tremor, Parisian Laundry, Montreal, Canada
2016
Eternity Anyways, Chewday’s, London
Tropisms, Deweer Gallery, Otegem, Belgium
2015
Mainland, MOT International, Brussels, Belgium
2014
Gold Diamond Park, Elizabeth Dee, New York, New York
Health and Strength, La Salle de Bains, Lyon, France
By Mistake or Design, Zabludowicz Collection, London
2012
Newly Laundered Smile, Rod Barton, London
In a normal world I’d be there, Outpost, Norwich
2010
The Conspiracy, Supplement, London
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023
10/10, curated by Sybren Vanoverberghe, Platform 6a, Keteleer Gallery, Otegem, Belgium
Blink, Trond Mohn Art Collection, Stavanger Art Museum, Stavanger, Norway
2022
Same Same, Sid Motion Gallery, London
An Ode to Orlando, Pi Artworks, London
2021
Transitive Objects (Coral What), COSAR HMT, Düsseldorf, Germany
From Head To Toe, L21, Mallorca, Spain
Not Painting, Copperfield Gallery, London
2020
Cause à effet, Bradley Ertaskiran, Montreal, Canada
2019
As a butterfly folded in a caterpillar that will soon unfold, Klemm’s, Berlin, Germany
Form, Class & Beauty, Nicoletti Contemporary, London
La Chose Encadrée, Glasgow International, SWG3 Gallery, Glasgow
2018
Echoes of the Ornamental Garden, Seventeen, London
Body Echo, Nicoletti Contemporary, Paris, France
Searching for myself through remote skins, Renata Fabri, Milan, Italy
In Search of Stillness, Deweer Gallery, Otegem, Belgium!
Salon 63, curated by Sasha Galtizine, London
Market Forces, HE.RO, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2017
Rehoming, Une une une, Perpignan, France
[ ], Annka Kultys Gallery, London
Alluring Shapes, Tempting Spaces, Galerie Eva Meyer, Paris, France
PDA Lovers, Four Six One Nine, Los Angeles, California
2016
The Perfume and the Bottle, Parisian Laundry, Montreal, Canada
Gallery Share, Off Vendome, New York, New York
Cathedrals of Consumption, Spinello Projects, Miami, Florida
Folly, Emalin, Stirling
2015
National Gallery 2: Empire, CHEWDAY’S, London
Summertime, Gallerist, Istanbul, Turkey
Pre-Pop to Post-Human: Collage in the Digital Age, Hayward Touring, London
Spears, Loyal Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden
2014
Breeze, Deweer Gallery, Otegem, Belgium
Between the lines, Galería Agustina Ferreyra, San Juan, Puerto Rico
Bien ou bien?, Moncheri, Brussels, Belgium
Display, University of Connecticut Contemporary Art Gallery, Storrs, Connecticut
Mystic Fire, Paradise Row, London
La Chose Encadree, Glasgow International, Glasgow
2013
Comrades of Time Comrades of Time, Cell Project Space, London
Desire, Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York, New York
The Stand In (or a Glass of Milk), Public Fiction, Los Angeles, California
Post Culture, Elizabeth Dee Gallery, New York, New York
Fresh Trauma, Ceri Hand Gallery, London
Physical and Virtual Bodies, Arnhem Museum of Modern Art, Arnhem, The Netherlands
2012
House of Voltaire, London
Used Photocopier, HOTEL, London
Journey without a Map, Marion Scharmann Gallery, Cologne, Germany
Inside the Whale, Gallery FaMa, Verona, Italy
Entrance Entrance, Temple Bar Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
2011
Dazed and Confused / Whitechapel Gallery Emerging Artist Award, London !
The Rise and Fall of Matter, Fluxus Franco British Fund for Contemporary Art and the David
Roberts Arts, Foundation Collective, London
Off-Site, curated by CHEWDAY’S, 19 Great Sutton Street, London
Gabriele Beveridge, Tomas Downes, Stuart Elliot, Rod Barton, London
Re-read, Assembly, London
2010
Legacy, L.I.U, London
ResoVision, Frieze Art Fair, London
Kunstvlaai, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2009
Statues Die Too, North Terrace, London
Starting with A Photograph, Michael Hoppen Gallery, London