Emily Beaney
Artist, filmmaker and PhD researcher
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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.
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Qualifications:
Edinburgh College of Art:
SGSAH (AHRC) funded PhD candidate (current)
MScR Interdisciplinary Creative Practices (Distinction) 2020
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Awards / Delegations:
Unlimited / British Council International Awards, Partnering Wellcome Trust, Glasgow Women's Library: Mexico City, November 2023
SGSAH (AHRC) Engagement Award: Mono No Aware, Brooklyn, NY, May 2023
Unlimited / British Council: No Limits Festival, Berlin, 2022
Royal Scottish Academy (RSA) Guthrie Award, 2021
Unlimited Emerging Artist Award, 2021
Stellar Quines / BOP: Research and Development, February 2020
Glasgow Women's Library / British Council: YoYP Delegate at Women of the World, Brazil, 2018
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Residencies:
Cove Park: Associates Residency, November / December 2024
Cove Park: SGSAH Residency, August 2023
Hospitalfield: Interdisciplinary Residency, Arbroath, August 2021
Summerhall: Lab Residency, Edinburgh, July 2021
British Council / Creative Scotland: Collaborative Residency, São Paulo, Brazil, March 2020
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Selected Screenings / Exhibitions / Conferences:
Southbank Centre, London: Unlimited on Screen, September 2022, 2024
Gender, Genre and Moving Image Symposium, Durham: Speaker, September 2024
Dovecot Studios, Edinburgh: Removing Barriers Symposium, May 2024
Glasgow Women's Library: Film Screening / Q+A, March 2024
Centro Cultural de España, Mexico City: Film Screening / Q+A, November 2023
Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival: Film Installation, May 2023
Body On & On Festival, Beijing: Film Screening / Q+A, April 2023
CCA, Glasgow: Within / Between Film Screening, July 2022
Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival: Spotlight Selection, April 2022
Stills Gallery, Edinburgh: Film Screening / Q+A, March 2022
Summerhall, Edinburgh: Residency Film Screening, November 2021
Culture, Health and Wellbeing International Conference: Film Screening / Q+A, June 2021
Scottish Mental Health Arts Festival (SMHAF): Film Screening, May 2021
Curative Things: Medicine / Fashion / Art Symposium, February 2021
On Transversality Conference: Film Screening, December 2020
ArtWalk Projects, Edinburgh: Outdoor Film Festival, October 2020
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Publications:
Chapter in Wearable Objects and Curative Things: Materialist Approaches to the Intersections of Fashion, Art, Health and Medicine, Palgrave Studies in Fashion and the Body, 2023
Decorating Dissidence Journal: Publication in Wearable Art Issue, February 2021
The Polyphony: Essay Publication of 'Exploring Care through Creative Collaboration', April 2021
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Teaching / Community:
GMAC Filmmaker Mentoring: Little Pictures programme, 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
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Training:
Disability Equality Training, First Aid, Mental Health First Aid, Autism Awareness, Child Protection, Dementia Awareness
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