Emily Beaney
Artist, filmmaker and PhD researcher
My practice and research centre upon embodied difference and collective care. Seeking to communicate through the filmic body, I utilise experimental and collaborative approaches to filmmaking to bring into being the unseen / unheard.
Qualifications:
Edinburgh College of Art:
SGSAH (AHRC) PhD candidate (current)
MScR Interdisciplinary Creative Practices (Distinction) 2020
Awards / Delegations:
Unlimited International Award: Wellcome Trust, Glasgow Women's Library, Mexico City, 2023
AHRC Engagement Award: Mono No Aware, Brooklyn, NY, 2023
Unlimited / British Council delegate: No Limits Festival, Berlin, 2022
Royal Scottish Academy (RSA) Guthrie Award, 2021
Unlimited Emerging Artist Award, 2021
Stellar Quines / BOP Research and Development Award, 2020
Glasgow Women's Library / British Council delegate: Women of the World, Brazil, 2018
Residencies:
Cove Park: Associates Residency, 2024
Edinburgh Neuroscience: Our Minds Fellowship, 2024
Cove Park: SGSAH Residency, 2023
Summerhall: Lab Residency, Edinburgh, 2021
Hospitalfield: Interdisciplinary Residency, Arbroath, 2021
Creative Scotland / British Council, São Paulo, Brazil: International residency, 2020
Screenings / Exhibitions:
Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh: Trading Zone exhibition, 2025
Process Experimental Film Festival, Riga, Latvia: Cracking the (In)Visible, 2025
Southbank Centre, London: Unlimited on Screen, 2022, 2024
Inspace Gallery, Edinburgh: The Developing Brain exhibition, 2024
Glasgow Women's Library: film screening, 2024
Centro Cultural de España, Mexico City: film screening, 2023
Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival: film exhibition, 2023
Body On & On Festival, Beijing: film programme, 2023
CCA, Glasgow: Within / Between film programme, 2022
Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival: Spotlight Selection, 2022
Stills Gallery, Edinburgh: Film screening, 2022
Summerhall, Edinburgh: Film screening, 2021
Scottish Mental Health Arts Festival (SMHAF): Film programme, 2021
ArtWalk Projects, Edinburgh: Outdoor Film Festival, 2020
Conferences / Symposiums:
Glasgow School of Art: Water as Method moving image symposium, 2025
University of Durham: Gender, Genre and Moving Image symposium, 2024
Dovecot Studios, Edinburgh: Removing Barriers symposium, 2024
Culture, Health and Wellbeing International Conference, 2021
Curative Things: Medicine / Fashion / Art symposium, 2021
On Transversality conference, 2020
Publications:
Wearable Objects and Curative Things: Book chapter, Palgrave Macmillan, 2023
Decorating Dissidence Journal: Publication in Wearable Art Issue, 2021
The Polyphony: Essay publication, 2021
Teaching / Community:
GMAC, Glasgow: Little Pictures filmmaker mentoring, , 2023
Edinburgh College of Art, University of Edinburgh: Multi-Sensory Cultures tutor, 2021, 2022
Edinburgh College of Art, University of Edinburgh: FilmMedicine tutor, 2020, 2022
Impact Arts, Glasgow: Workshop facilitator, 2018 - 2019
Training:
Disability Equality Training, First Aid, Mental Health First Aid, Autism Awareness, Child Protection, Dementia Awareness