Never Ends
PV Sunday 7th June 2-5pm
30th May – 27th June 2026

A giant teardrop of glass, hitched to a metal spine. Root systems unfurling across an aluminium sheet. A column of fleshy pink orbs, cinched with steel, reminiscent of breasts, or cells about to divide. 

In Gabriele Beveridge’s work, organic and bodily forms are suggested and then denatured, forced into proximity with the cold armature of industry. Via intensive chemical processes and extreme heat, she manipulates commercial materials to create spectres of softness, aliveness, and transience. Entrancing and disquieting, her sculptures call attention to a world—our world—in which the industrial and the ecological are inextricable, co-constitutive, and in which things are often not what they seem. 

Glass, long central to Beveridge’s practice, is a richly duplicitous material. It conjures fixity and fluidity, offers clarity and distortion. At once liquid and solid, it contests the idea that anything is truly stable or comprehensible. For the artist, glass is a medium akin to time: endlessly flowing, accumulating, stretching, continuing—never quite resolved. Beveridge’s “Stem” and “Spine” series, in which handblown balloons of glass slump and spill over skeletal metal structures, dwell in this uncanny valley. Both vaguely human and extremely artificial, they test our perceptions, and resist finality. 

Worked in a molten state, glass demands both authority and acquiescence on the part of the maker. Beveridge’s latest aluminium panel works are also steeped in risk, and emerge in the space between control and chance. Anodised to a sheen through an electrochemical process, the sheets are then bathed in sulphuric acid and dripped with dyes to create branchlike, vegetal patterns that conjure up milk duct anatomy, river networks, or mycelium. The disjunction between these ecological simulacra and the deeply chemical process through which they are generated is yet another way in which Beveridge reminds us just how much of an illusion we are inhabiting.

— Meara Sharma

 

About the Artist:

Gabriele Beveridge (b. 1985, Hong Kong) is a British artist based in London. She studied at Falmouth College of Arts and the Slade School of Art, and was an artist-in-residence at the Villa Lena Foundation in Italy in 2018 and at West Dean College in the United Kingdom in 2017.

Recent solo and two-person exhibitions include: A sculptural commission in collaboration with AWITA (Women in the Arts Association) for 100 Bishopsgate, London (2025), Blood Moon at Cosar Gallery, Dusseldorf (2024), Laps at Bradley Ertaskrian, Montreal (2022), Packed Stars Dividing at Seventeen (2022), Great Pretender at Kai Art Center (2021), Skin for Either One at Deweer Gallery, Otegem (2019), Live Dead World at Seventeen (2018-19), Soft Shrinking Tremor at Parisian Laundry, Montreal (2017), Eternity Anyways at Chewday’s, London (2016), Health and Strength at La Salle de Bains, Lyon (2015), Mainland at MOT, Brussels (2015), In a Normal World I’d Be There at Outpost, Norwich (2014), Health and Strength at La Salle de Bains (2014), Lyon and Gold Diamond Park at Elizabeth Dee, New York (2014).

Recent group exhibitions include: Melting Sands: Glass in Contemporary Art at Sammlung Philara, Dusseldorf (2026), You You at Lombardi Kargl, Vienna (2024), Re-opening of the Collection at Kunstpalast, Dusseldorf (2024), Blink at Stravanger Art Museum, Stravanger (2023), Pre-Pop to Post-Human: Collage in the Digital Age at Hayward Touring, London (2014), Comrades of Time at Cell Project Space, London (2013), Desire at Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York (2013), La Chose Encadrée at a Glasgow International, Scotland (2014) Folly at Emalin, London (2016)

 

Gabriele Beveridge, Spine (V), 2026
Hand-blown glass, chromed steel 60 x 30 x 25cm

Gabriele Beveridge, Stem (V), 2026
Hand-blown glass, chromed steel 160 x 40 x 40 cm

Gabriele Beveridge, Spine (III), 2026
Hand-blown glass, chromed steel 58 x 30 x 25 cm

Gabriele Beveridge, Blood Moon, 2026
Bluette marble, chromed steel 80.5 x 80.5 cm

Gabriele Beveridge, Memorial (I), 2026
Anodised aluminium, chromed steel 40.5 x 30.5 cm

Gabriele Beveridge, Memorial (III), 2026
Anodised aluminium, chromed steel 40.5 x 30.5 cm

Gabriele Beveridge, Mother, 2025
Hand-blown glass, chromed steel 200 x 80 x 80 cm

Gabriele Beveridge, Night Blindness, 2025
Polyurethane paint on steel panels, steel uprights 200 x 200 cm

Gabriele Beveridge, Source (blue), 2026
Hand-blown glass, chromed steel 40 x 26 x 16 cm

Gabriele Beveridge, Spine (III), 2026
Hand-blown glass, chromed steel 58 x 30 x 25 cm