Art Club met regularly through a series of online and in-person sessions to explore interactions between physical and digital spaces and states.
During the pandemic, many of our social, educational and work interactions adapted to become screen-based. Together, the group will explore how these interactions shape our identities and how we can develop a sense of feeling at home in ourselves, both inside and outside the screen.
With many families and young people spending more time at home together during periods of lockdown, domestic space and making things at home have also become more central to our wellbeing.
Through this collaboration, Katriona Beales’ Art Club created handmade objects and then digitally transformed them, through processes such as 3D scanning and printing. This resulted in a series of functional objects e.g. bean bags, cushions and wall hangings created for members of the Art Clubs’ own homes.
Katriona Beales is an internationally exhibited artist based in London, UK who makes digital artefacts, objects, moving image and installation. Beales work responds to the social implications of new technologies, in particular mental health and digital culture. Beales’s interdisciplinary project ‘Are We All Addicts Now?’, supported by The Wellcome Trust and Arts Council England, was shown at Furtherfield, London in 2017. Recent commissions were shown at the V&A Museum and Science Gallery London (2018) and a participatory green screen installation at Autograph (Feb-March 2020). Katriona was the lead artist on Supersmashers, South London Galleries’ programme for looked after children 2013-15, and has led the Family SEND workshop programme at Autograph since 2019. Katriona received an MA from Chelsea College of Arts and is a founding member of Artists’ Union England as well as a Trustee of the AUE Solidarity Fund. Katriona Beales is commissioned by The White House as part of New Town Culture