Featured Artist: Beth Shapeero

Glasgow Print Studio is pleased to present five new large screen-printed monoprints by Beth Shapeero.

 

Created in concentrated bursts of frenetic activity, An Afternoon refers to a screen printing 'slot' where the artist works at fast pace and produces a body of prints in a single session. The prints produced in the sessions are all unique monoprints, she uses the same stencils in different configurations, overlapped and repeated, to the point of messiness and technical printing errors, producing an unruly and energetic pile of prints. The process of printing becomes an act of play and discovery: the moments of 'ghost' prints, the gunky overload of ink, the traces of sponged cleaning and the motifs interacting with one another in strange ways - all produce effects that can't be tamed, preconceived or reproduced.

 

Through this play, Shapeero explores what interests her in life, the strange bodies we inhabit, the fuzziness of where we overlap and repeat ourselves, our relationships to one another and experiences of weight and tension. The motif of a vessel/body becomes a container for all that we hold within, our delicate yet robust little bodies which hold so much emotion, history, madness and delight.

 

Beth Shapeero (b. 1985, Nottingham) is based in Glasgow, Scotland. Her practice explores sensation, memory, and the body through abstraction. She works across painting and printmaking, often combining the two to produce works that emphasise process, materiality, and scale. Shapeero is one half of the collaborative duo Two-Step, alongside artist Fraser Taylor, and she is also co-director of the artist-led gallery ShapeeroMurray. 

 

Recent solo exhibitions include Scribbling/Scrabbling (Two-Step, Platform, Glasgow, 2024), Playing Up (Two-Step, Glasgow Print Studio, 2023), To Stand in the Full Sun (16 Nicholson Street Gallery, Glasgow, 2022), and Turned the Wrong Way (Studio Pavilion, House for an Art Lover, Glasgow, 2022). In 2020, she was awarded the ARMA commission. 

 

Her work has also been exhibited at the Royal Scottish Academy (Edinburgh), Tramway (Glasgow), The Royal Standard (Liverpool), and Two Queens (Leicester), and featured in multiple editions of Glasgow International Festival. Internationally, she has exhibited in Madrid (Art Madrid), Athens (Art Athina), Reykjaik (SIM Gallery), Gothenburg (Fabriksgatan 48), Helsinki (Aalto Media Lab Lume Centre), Bremen (Palast der Produktion), and Gotland (Gotland Artist's Association).