Gabriele Beveridge

Gabriele Beveridge

Single Cells
2022
Hand-blown glass, steel hooks, polyurethane paint, shop fittings
120 x 120 x 42 cm. (47.2 x 47.2 x 16.5 in.)
Light Pool (I)
2022
Photogram, unique gelatin silver print, artist's frame
50 x 40 x 5 cm. (19¾ x 15¾ x 2 in.)
Orbit (II)
2021
Hair extensions, wood, satin varnish
70 x 70 x 10 cm (27.5 x 27.5 x 4 in.)
Laps, 2022
Exhibition view
Bradley Ertaskiran, Montreal (Canada)
Photo: Jean-Michael Seminaro
Laps, 2022
Exhibition view
Bradley Ertaskiran, Montreal (Canada)
Photo: Jean-Michael Seminaro
Laps, 2022
Exhibition view
Bradley Ertaskiran, Montreal (Canada)
Photo: Jean-Michael Seminaro
Saturdays Keep Secrets That Sunday Never Could
2019
Found poster, broken quartz geode, frame
62 x 37 x 8 cm (24.5 x 14.5 x 3 in.)
Stem
2022
Hand-blown glass, chrome upright
110 x 38 x 33 cm. (43 x 15 x 13 in.) Photo Damian Griffiths
Burning (III)
2022
Perspex retail fitting, freehand glass
35 x 25 x 8 cm. (13.5 x 9.8 x 3 in.)
Whole Sea Between
2019
Chrome shop fittings, hand-blown glass
40.6 x 175.3 x 81.3 cm. (16 x 69 x 32 in.)
Under Falls of Air
2022
Found shop panels, lacquered pegboard
Photo Damian Griffiths
Laps, 2022
Exhibition view
Bradley Ertaskiran, Montreal (Canada)
Photo: Jean-Michael Seminaro
Complete
2019
Gunmetal coating on fiberglass mannequin legs
107 x 107 x 35 cm (42 x 42 x 14 in.)
Tender Greed
2019
Broken quartz geode, chrome shop display stand
220 x 60 x 60 cm (86.5 x 23.5 x 23.5 in.)
Fountain
2021
Hand-blown glass, shop tie and belt racks, rope
Petrol Electric Light (detail)
2019
Found shop panels, powder-coated pegboards, uprights, chrome shop fittings, hand-blown glass
211 x 128.5 x 40.5 cm (83 x 50.5 x 16 in.)
Prophetic Souls (IX)
2017
Chrome shop fittings, hand-blown glass
132 x 100 x 53 cm (52 x 39⅜ x 20⅞ in.)
Slip Fault (I)
2019
Perspex retail fitting, freehand glass
31 x 25.5 x 9 cm (12.2 x 10 x 3.5 in.)
Cord (II)
2023
Hand-blown glass
74 x 28 x 25 cm. (29.1 x 11 x 9.8 in.)
Blood Moon (III)
2023
Marble, powder-coated steel frame
75 x 75 x 5 cm. (29.5 x 29.5 x 1.9 in.)
End of Never
2021
Found and sun faded beauty salon poster, rope, custom made frame
50 x 35 x 7 cm. (20 x 14 x 3 in.)
Single Cells
2022
Hand-blown glass, steel hooks, polyurethane paint, shop fittings
120 x 120 x 42 cm. (47.2 x 47.2 x 16.5 in.)
Light Pool (I)
2022
Photogram, unique gelatin silver print, artist's frame
50 x 40 x 5 cm. (19¾ x 15¾ x 2 in.)
Orbit (II)
2021
Hair extensions, wood, satin varnish
70 x 70 x 10 cm (27.5 x 27.5 x 4 in.)
Laps, 2022
Exhibition view
Bradley Ertaskiran, Montreal (Canada)
Photo: Jean-Michael Seminaro
Laps, 2022
Exhibition view
Bradley Ertaskiran, Montreal (Canada)
Photo: Jean-Michael Seminaro
Laps, 2022
Exhibition view
Bradley Ertaskiran, Montreal (Canada)
Photo: Jean-Michael Seminaro
Saturdays Keep Secrets That Sunday Never Could
2019
Found poster, broken quartz geode, frame
62 x 37 x 8 cm (24.5 x 14.5 x 3 in.)
Stem
2022
Hand-blown glass, chrome upright
110 x 38 x 33 cm. (43 x 15 x 13 in.) Photo Damian Griffiths
Burning (III)
2022
Perspex retail fitting, freehand glass
35 x 25 x 8 cm. (13.5 x 9.8 x 3 in.)
Whole Sea Between
2019
Chrome shop fittings, hand-blown glass
40.6 x 175.3 x 81.3 cm. (16 x 69 x 32 in.)
Under Falls of Air
2022
Found shop panels, lacquered pegboard
Photo Damian Griffiths
Laps, 2022
Exhibition view
Bradley Ertaskiran, Montreal (Canada)
Photo: Jean-Michael Seminaro
Complete
2019
Gunmetal coating on fiberglass mannequin legs
107 x 107 x 35 cm (42 x 42 x 14 in.)
Tender Greed
2019
Broken quartz geode, chrome shop display stand
220 x 60 x 60 cm (86.5 x 23.5 x 23.5 in.)
Fountain
2021
Hand-blown glass, shop tie and belt racks, rope
Petrol Electric Light (detail)
2019
Found shop panels, powder-coated pegboards, uprights, chrome shop fittings, hand-blown glass
211 x 128.5 x 40.5 cm (83 x 50.5 x 16 in.)
Prophetic Souls (IX)
2017
Chrome shop fittings, hand-blown glass
132 x 100 x 53 cm (52 x 39⅜ x 20⅞ in.)
Slip Fault (I)
2019
Perspex retail fitting, freehand glass
31 x 25.5 x 9 cm (12.2 x 10 x 3.5 in.)
Cord (II)
2023
Hand-blown glass
74 x 28 x 25 cm. (29.1 x 11 x 9.8 in.)
Blood Moon (III)
2023
Marble, powder-coated steel frame
75 x 75 x 5 cm. (29.5 x 29.5 x 1.9 in.)
End of Never
2021
Found and sun faded beauty salon poster, rope, custom made frame
50 x 35 x 7 cm. (20 x 14 x 3 in.)

Biography

Gabriele Beveridge employs the language and imagery of commercial beauty advertising in her practice. By isolating, layering, and deconstructing found objects from the cosmetic industry such as editorial photos, retail display fixtures, and semi-precious stones, Beveridge is able to recontextualize the conventional staging of attraction and desire. Her visual strategies function less as a means of dismantling beauty conventions than of exaggerating them to a point where they are made alien, triggering a blurring of the alluring and the unfamiliar. Beveridge appropriates retail imagery and architecture as ready-made material, finding aged beauty advertisements washed out by the sun and draping her own hand-blown glass orbs over them. In this way, she initiates a tangible communion between found image and object, bestowing a layer of fragility on the commanding gaze of the ad models. The airbrushed allure of the beauty shop poster is thus rendered both sublime and contemplative through its own glamour and excess. Beveridge’s works possess a captivating strangeness, as she manipulates the advertising language and dreamy, flawless aesthetics of the commercial beauty industry into a depersonalised, faintly recognizable distortion of itself. 

Gabriele Beveridge completed her Master’s degree in Fine Art Media at the Slade School of Fine Art in London, where she is currently based. Her work has been presented in institutional exhibitions at Kai Art Center (Tallinn), La Salle de Bains (Lyon), and Arnhem Museum of Modern Art (Netherlands). Other solo and group exhibitions include Bradley Ertaskiran (Montreal), Seventeen (London), Hayward Touring (UK), Yancey Richardson Gallery (New York), Klemm’s (Berlin), Freehouse (London), Emalin (London), and Glasgow International (Glasgow).

Born in Hong Kong, 1985

Lives and works in London, UK

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