Art House 20
Address: 9e Bellfield Lane
Open: 7/8 and 14/15 September
Beatrice’s work breaks taboos around vulvas, sexuality, and periods, The use of hand stitching creates a slow and almost meditative process, which in turn embeds emotional landscape into her work.
Beatrice Chambers McMillan uses traditionally feminine techniques such as sewing and beading to break taboos around vulvas, sexuality, and periods, challenging the ideas in the art world that textile art is less valued, or categorised as ‘craft’. The use of hand stitching in her work creates a slow and almost meditative process, which in turn is embedding and emotional landscape into her work. Her piece ‘Look at Me’, is a series of mirrors which seeks to remove the shame and taboo around vulvas by making them colourful and in your face. In a world where women’s bodies are often objectified and separated from the human beings they belong to, she looks to reconnect the person to the body, and makes us think about how we were created.
Biography:
Glasgow School of Art: Sculpture and Environmental Art, Year Four
Glasgow Art Club, ‘Broken Bodies’ March 2023
GSA ‘Untitled’ SEA exhibition December 2022
Art Walk Porty Art House September 2022, 2023
Instagram: @b.mcmillan.art
Contact: thea@chambersmcmillan.com
Also showing with Greta Chambers McMillan and Thea Chambers
