Banner image: A sheet of white lined office paper, leaving the margin clear, is filled with a multicoloured pen drawing. In the middle contains a grid of many spirals each made up of two contrasting colours and divided horizontally in the middle.

Latest Shape collaboration: Emelia was one of the Shape Open 2021 artists within the exhibition ‘All Bound Together’.
Artist Statement: Emelia Kerr Beale is a Nottingham-born artist currently based in Glasgow. At the moment, they work across drawing, sculpture, and textile to process the complexities of illness and centre experiences of discomfort, pleasure, anxiety, and joy. Through the use of recurring motifs such as birds, spirals, and lines extending outwards, they consider the ways in which imagination and repetition can be coping mechanisms. Their research is rooted in feminist disability studies and queer theory, as well as lived and embodied experience.
As a person with ADHD, they care about celebrating neurodivergent wa…