157 BYRES RD.
157 BYRES RD.
AMANDA BEVERIDGE
Us, Interrupted
10.09.26
19.09.26
FREE ENTRY
Information:
ADDRESS:
The Alchemy Experiment
157 Byres Road, G12 8TS
Glasgow
OPENING NIGHT:
Thursday 10th August 19:00-21:00
OPENING HOURS:
Mon - Fri 8.30-17.00
Sat 9.00-17.00
Sun 10.00-17.00
ARTIST LINKS:
'Us, Interrupted began with a fairly simple idea: phones are getting in the way. The more I painted, though, the less simple it became.
Phones distract us, isolate us and pull our attention away from the people and places directly in front of us. But they also connect us, entertain us, reassure us, make us laugh and allow us to share moments with people who may be nowhere near us. So the work became less about blaming the phone and more about looking at us.
These paintings explore the strange, funny and sometimes tender ways we now live alongside technology. Some figures are absorbed in screens. Some are connecting through them. Some are missing what is around them. Others are sharing something joyful.
At the heart of the exhibition is something much older than the technology itself: our need to connect.
The title Us, Interrupted refers not only to the interruption of conversation, attention or presence, but also to the little breaks and shifts that happen in relationships all the time. I hope the paintings feel familiar. I hope some make you smile. And perhaps they might make you look twice at the people sitting beside you.'
Amanda Beveridge is a Scottish artist who paints people, relationships and those small, fleeting moments that can say far more than anything dramatic.
Coming from a background in performance and theatre, she has spent years watching people — how they move, how they connect, how they avoid each other, how they make each other laugh, and all the little things that happen in between. Her paintings usually begin with a real person or a real moment, but she isn’t interested in copying a photograph perfectly. What matters more is the feeling of it — the atmosphere, the relationship, the story.
She came to painting seriously later in life, which has become part of the adventure. For Amanda, making art is also about curiosity, reinvention and the idea that we don’t have to stay the same person forever.
Her work is figurative, colourful and full of characters. She likes paintings that make you wonder what has just happened, what might happen next, or what the people in them are really thinking.
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