# Beth Shapeero

> Glasgow based visual artist


## Posts

- [Two-Step: Drawn Together](https://bethshapeero.com/2023/06/14/two-step-drawn-together/): Two-Step: Drawn Together During lockdown, the artists (Beth Shapeero and Fraser Taylor) sent A4 drawings back and forth by Royal Mail to one and other, allowing them to continue their collaborative practice. Drawn Together showcases a collection of their collaborative drawing at South Block in Glasgow. April 2023 Lockdown Drawing 120, Mixed paint on paper, 2021, A4 Drawn Together
- [Two-Step: Playing Up](https://bethshapeero.com/2023/06/14/two-step-playing-up/): Two-Step: Playing Up A solo exhibition at Glasgow Print Studio of new work by artist duo Two-Step (Beth Shapeero and Fraser Taylor). April/May 2023 Works available at Glasgow Print Studio Microsoft Word – Media Release_Two Step_ Beth Shapeero and Fraser Taylor_ April 2023.docx Beth Shapeero and Fraser Taylor began their collaboration Two-Step after meeting and discovering one another’s practice in 2017 while on residency at the Studio Pavilion at House for an Art Lover, Glasgow. They took their first steps working together at Glasgow Print Studio in 2018, where they developed their individual aesthetics into a new language of rhythm […]
- [Two-Step](https://bethshapeero.com/2022/08/17/two-step-2/): Beth Shapeero + Fraser Taylor Two-Step is a collaborative project between two Glasgow based artists: Beth Shapeero and Fraser Taylor Beth  Shapeero + Fraser Taylor Beth Shapeero and Fraser Taylor have been painting, drawing and printmaking together since 2018 as part of their collaborative project Two-Step. Both living and working in Glasgow, they were drawn to one another’s work after noticing a distinctly shared aesthetic and process. Since meeting they have produced 100’s of monotypes, a number of ambitious installations and undertaken postal collaborations during COVID-19 lockdown periods – a way of connecting throughout the disruption. The collaboration has become an […]
- [To Stand in the Full Sun](https://bethshapeero.com/2022/08/16/to-stand-in-the-full-sun/):   To Stand in the Full Sun by Beth Shapeero Freedom in Abstraction, Power in Creativity was a participatory project developed with 16 Nicholson Street Gallery and with women from Empower Women for Change which culminated in a coproduced exhibition.                                                 16nicholsonstreet.org empowerwomenforchangeglasgow work produced at Print Clan  
- [Panting](https://bethshapeero.com/2022/04/12/panting/): Panting by Gwenan Danvies Panting was commissioned as a companion piece for the exhibition ‘Turned the Wrong Way’ at Studio Pavilion Panting 71. I treat colour concepts like the concepts of sensation. ________________________ It’s Tuesday, I think the 28th September, I’m sitting on the riverside with some lovely warm afternoon sun hitting my right cheek. I’m abroad; and in new environments I like to see things and myself anew- colour, scale and affectations- almost like the new place gives me new eyes, fresh each time. I lean into it, letting the days linger and plans loosen as I unravel and […]
- [Get Your Skates On](https://bethshapeero.com/2022/04/12/get-your-skates-on/): Get Your Skates On by Jan Patience
- [The Shape of Things](https://bethshapeero.com/2022/04/12/the-shape-of-things/): The Shape of Things Beth Shapeero In collaboration with learners from Leeds City College, ‘The Shape of Things’ is exploration of abstract gestures inspired by slowing down and noticing our everyday surroundings. Funded by the Alexandra Reinhardt Memorial Award (ARMA 2020), this participatory project is framed as a way to equip young people with mindful techniques for coping with the stresses of life.   The Tetley, Leeds 2021-2022 thetetley.org/exhibition/the-shape-of-things/
- [Turned the Wrong Way](https://bethshapeero.com/2022/04/12/turned-the-wrong-way/): Turned the Wrong Way by Beth Shapeero Solo show at studio Pavilion at House for an Art Lover December 2021
- [Current Shows](https://bethshapeero.com/2021/12/29/current-shows/):   Turned the Wrong Way Studio Pavilion at House for an Art Lover, Glasgow 17th December 2021  – 30th January 2022 Thursday – Sunday 11am – 3pm Closed 24 – 26 December and 31 December – 2 January studiopavilion.co.uk/turned-the-wrong-way/             The Shape of Things The Tetley, Leeds 19 Nov 2021 – 6 Mar 2022 Wednesday – Sunday, 10am – 5pm thetetley.org/exhibition/the-shape-of-things               Two-Step at The Loading Bay The Loading Bay, Glasgow March 2021 – March 20222 Monday – Sunday, 10am – 10pm              
- [Two Step Big 4](https://bethshapeero.com/2021/10/26/two-step-big-4/): Two-Step Big Four By Beth Shapeero and Fraser Taylor Four large-scale works installed at Beacon Arts Centre, Greenock in June 2021. Made in the Scottish Opera production workshops during Covid closures.
- [Two-Step at The Hidden Door](https://bethshapeero.com/2021/10/26/two-step-hidden-door/): Two-Step at The Hidden Door Festival by Beth Shapeero and Fraser Taylor Six hanging textile works combining screen print and painting commissioned for The Hidden Door Festival in Edinburgh September 2021
- [Selvedge to Selvedge](https://bethshapeero.com/2021/10/26/selvedge-to-selvedge/): Selvedge to Selvedge An installation of screen-printed fabric at The Briggait, Glasgow. Displayed in the window spaces of the gallery, the work could be viewed from the street even during Covid closures. April 2021, in collaboration with Fraser Taylor
- [Birds, Rats and The Dark  by Simon Buckley](https://bethshapeero.com/2021/01/19/birds-rats-dark-simon-buckley/): Birds, Rats and The Dark by Simon Buckley   “What happens to the hole when the cheese is gone?” ― Bertolt Brecht   For Govan Project Space (GPS) Beth Shapeero and Fraser Taylor will exhibit collaborative works together for the first time. The exhibition will comprise of one large site-responsive installation. The back wall of the gallery, which ascends to approximately forty feet, will be clad in a grid of a 120 (A2) screen prints. Presiding over an otherwise empty gallery space, the installation will appear as a vast ensemble of colour, shape, line and form; a jostling composition pushing […]
- [Beth Shapeero & Fraser Taylor  By Lauren Printy-Currie](https://bethshapeero.com/2021/01/19/beth-shapeero-fraser-taylor-lauren-printy-currie/): Beth Shapeero & Fraser Taylor By Lauren Printy-Currie I see a dance performed on paper. A meandering line of charcoal that could have been attached to a limb. Marks creating by moving around, as we do, to the beat of the day. From each picture to the next, there is an abrupt scene change. I see an interplay between two people that lasts and lasts until it has established a level of its own, becoming its own. I see two people surrendering to the process, trying to leave themselves behind. This is a true constant across the variation of lost […]
- [The Singular En Masse: Meditations on the Collaborative Practice of Beth Shapeero and Fraser Taylor](https://bethshapeero.com/2021/01/13/singular-en-masse-meditations-collaborative-practice-beth-shapeero-fraser-taylor/): The Singular En Masse: Meditations on the Collaborative Practice of Beth Shapeero and Fraser Taylor by Simon Buckley SLIDE 1: ‘If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe’ Carl Sagan (2011)   BANG. Pure energy. A few seconds of unimaginable blistering intensity. Matter forms. Years, centuries, millennia, millions, billions of years pass. Atoms firing through space. For three hundred million years the ever-persevering force of gravity brings the atoms closer to each other. Soon they will be baked into galaxies. There are heavier elements starting to form. Planetary systems are beginning to […]
- [Writing](https://bethshapeero.com/2021/01/13/writing/):  Two Step Beth Shapeero & Fraser Taylor by Lauren Printy-Currie 2018 Birds, Rats and The Dark by Simon Buckley 2018 Panting by Gwenan Davies 2020 Get Your Skates on by Jan Patience 2020 www.heraldscotland.com Beth Shapeero: The Shape of Things by Alice Bradshaw 2022
- [Tiny Paintings Woodside Terrace](https://bethshapeero.com/2021/01/13/tiny-paintings-woodside-terrace/): Tiny Paintings by Beth Shapeero The Tiny Paintings occupied a top floor bedroom of a 5 story Glasgow townhouse development.  Shown alongside Two-Step in August 2020.  Works measure approx. 5 x 4.5cm.
- [Two-Step at The Loading Bay](https://bethshapeero.com/2021/01/13/two-step-loading-bay/): Two-Step at The Loading Bay Two-Step installation in The Loading Bay skatepark in Glasgow. The works were installed during the closure of the skatepark due to Covid restrictions in December 2020. theloadingbayglasgow.com/
- [Two-Step Lockdown 2020](https://bethshapeero.com/2021/01/12/two-step-lockdown-2020/): A4 drawings posted back and forth between collaborating duo Beth Shapeero and Fraser Taylor during the first major lockdown period; March – May 2020. 111 collaborative drawings were created during this period. Two-Step is an ongoing collaboration which began in 2017.
- [Two-Step 8 Woodside Terrace](https://bethshapeero.com/2020/09/18/two-step-8-woodside-terrace/): Two-Step 8 Woodside Terrace An exhibition in Glasgow townhouse development featuring Two-Step works by Beth Shapeero and Fraser Taylor. The show took place in August 2020 in the midst of Covid restrictions, viewings were possible via scheduled appointment slots in groups of 20. It was the first event/real life art experience any of us had taken part in in some time. Produced in collaboration with From The Studio, www.fromthestudio.art, and featuring work by Ruby Flowers, www.rubyflowers.co.uk.
- [Tiny Paintings Reykjavik](https://bethshapeero.com/2019/07/27/tiny-paintings/): Tiny Paintings Made on residence at Sim in Reykjavik in October 2018.  Tiny works measure approx. 4 x 5.5cm.
- [Two-Step Govan Project Space](https://bethshapeero.com/2019/07/27/two-step/): Two-Step by Beth Shapeero and Fraser Taylor Leaning wall surfaced with silkscreen monotypes Inaugural collaborative exhibition at Govan Project Space, Glasgow 2019 govanprojectspace.co.uk/#/new-gallery/
- [LOOP](https://bethshapeero.com/2018/08/07/loop/): LOOP  for Glasgow International Festival 2018 Glasgow SPT Subway network by Alys Owen and Beth Shapeero Buchanan Street Station installation designed in collaboration with young people from Glasgow Sculpture Studios and North United Communities. Vinyl installation, Buchanan St. Subway Vinyl installation, St. Enoch Subway LOOP 4 sheet, West Street Subway LOOP   4 sheet,  Govan Subway Vinyl installation, Buchanan St. subway LOOP performance
- [Am I an Artist?](https://bethshapeero.com/2017/12/27/am-i-an-artist/): Tramway and Glasgow Youth Arts Hub collaboratively produced ‘Am I an Artist?’ in 2016. A project where young people discovered learnt about visual arts and the Turner Prize nominated artists, creating an installation at Tramway in response to the exhibition.  
- [Youth Mobilities](https://bethshapeero.com/2017/12/27/youth-mobilities/): YOMO was a collaborative project between researchers at Glasgow University and CCA looking at youth mobilities in digital space. Role: Lead artist
- [Arts Award](https://bethshapeero.com/2017/12/27/arts-award/): The Arts Award programme at Glasgow Sculpture Studios allows young people to learn sculptural techniques and ideas whilst following a programme of research and skill sharing to gain an accredited award.  There are three levels; bronze, silver and gold and the programme is part of GSS’s education and engagement programme. Role: Lead artist, mentor and assessor. Programme development.      
- [Kids and Babies](https://bethshapeero.com/2017/12/27/kids-and-babies/): Sculpture kids and sculpture babies take place every week at Glasgow Sculpture Studios. The workshops are free, drop in and have use different themes and materials every week. Role: Artist/Facilitator  
- [Workshops](https://bethshapeero.com/2017/12/27/workshops/): Facilitation/Workshops Experienced in delivering workshops to all age groups in sculpture, painting, printing making, photography, moving image, installation, youth empowerment, plastic pollution/recycling and gender based issue/identity. Sept 2017             Breakthough Facilitator, exploring gender based issues, PEEK, Glasgow April 2017            Lead Artist, Youth Mobilities, Glasgow University/CCA 2016-now             Arts Award Mentor, Glasgow Sculpture Studios August 2016       Bronze Arts Award Moderation, Princes Trust, Glasgow Sculpture Studios 2016                        Facilitating/project managing ‘Arts Tours by Led Young People’, Glasgow International/GYAH co-production, 3 month project, ages 15-25 July 2016              Delivering Metalwork Sculpture workshop for Glasgow Sculpture Studios/GSA WP 15-16yrs 2015 -now            Delivering Sculpture Club, ages 3-12, Glasgow Sculpture […]
- [Breakthrough](https://bethshapeero.com/2017/12/27/breakthrough/): Breakthrough was a PEEK (Possibilities for each and every kid) designed to support, educate and empower young people to explore identity, self-esteem and gender based issues through arts. Role: Lead artist at Churchhouse, Bridgeton peekproject.org.uk
- [Local Press PR](https://bethshapeero.com/2017/12/18/local-press-pr/)
- [Clinic PR](https://bethshapeero.com/2017/12/15/clinic-pr/): The Clinic_press_release
- [Dreams and Perfume PR](https://bethshapeero.com/2017/12/14/dreams-and-perfume-pr/): infosheetrecto
- [Block Press Release](https://bethshapeero.com/2017/12/12/block-press-release/): BLOCK Map-3
- [Bedroom](https://bethshapeero.com/2017/12/12/bedroom-2/): Bedroom Beth Shapeero Exhibition 29 -31 July 10am – 4pm Private View Sat 29th July 4-6pm   Bedroom is an exhibition/residency taking place in Project Space One at Artpark (House for an Art Lover) by Beth Shapeero. During the month of July an uncanny, show room style bedroom/studio is presented which acts as a workspace and a space where visitors are welcomed to get involved in the ideas, exploration and production of work taking place. The works explore the relationship between the abstract nature of dreams and abstraction in visual art and how we can play with the edges of […]
- [Moving Image](https://bethshapeero.com/2017/12/06/moving-image-2/):   title goes here
- [Moving Image](https://bethshapeero.com/2017/12/01/moving-image/)
- [Dreams and Perfume](https://bethshapeero.com/2017/11/30/dreams-and-perfume/): Dreams and Perfume was a group show with Estelle Fournier and Charlotte Arnhold for Glasgow Open House 2017 and staged in a domestic flat. In the work First and Last, by Beth Shapeero, the occupier’s (Beth Shapeero and Charlotte Anrnhold)’s dreams were presented as audio recordings in their respective bedrooms. Visitors were invited to lie in their beds and listen to the dreams. Press Release  
- [Paintings/drawings/prints](https://bethshapeero.com/2017/11/29/paintings/): From Bedroom, ink, emulsion and paper on canvas, 60x60cm, 2017   From Dreams and Perfume, Gloss on sprayed steel, 60x75cm, 2017   From Bedroom, Ink on Paper, 32x46cm, 2017   From Bedroom, Ink on Paper, 2017     28 Blobs, 500x280cm, 2008    
- [Workings](https://bethshapeero.com/2017/11/24/workings/): Workings, for Glasgow International 2016, was staged as a residency/exhibition.  The artists, Beth Shapeero, Philip Gurrey and Samantha Madonna, made work on site and encouraged visitors to help with the making of the work. Workings Press Release  
- [The Clinic](https://bethshapeero.com/2017/11/24/the-clinic/): First and Last at The Clinic, Glasgow International 2014.  Each domed speaker plays an audio track of a different girl’s nightly dreams recorded as soon as they awoke over a few months. Press Release  
- [Local Press](https://bethshapeero.com/2017/11/24/local-press/): For Local Press we designed prints to give away to local visitors which linked aesthetically to our sculptural or installation works.  See the prints in visitors homes here: aprintgiveawayproject.tumblr.com Press Release    
- [Block](https://bethshapeero.com/2017/11/23/block/): Block took place in Spring/Summer 2017, beginning at a tenement block in Govanhill and leading to Tramway.  The project engaged with local people and organisations to meet, share food and ideas and create a series of limited edition screen prints exhibited in local organisations forming a walking tour from the block to Tramway. Press Release
- [Bedroom](https://bethshapeero.com/2017/11/23/bedroom/): Bedroom was commissioned by ART PARK at House for an Art Lover as a month long residency/project. Over the month, while the bedroom/show room emerged, visitors dreams were recorded as audio and drawings which played through the lamp like hanging speakers and the bed, and adorned the walls.  The month culminated in a ‘work-in-progress’ exhibition where dreams by visitors and the drawings and paintings by the artist were exhibited as part of an interactive installation. Press release      
- [Blobs](https://bethshapeero.com/2017/07/26/blobs/)
- [Young Empowerment](https://bethshapeero.com/2017/07/18/engagement-projects/): The Youth Led Film-making project was one of many projects run through Glasgow Youth Arts Hub.  Here the youth committee (aged 14-25) developed the idea for a project where they taught a group of young asylum seekers and refugees to make a film in a week. Glasgow Youth Arts Hub’s youth committee continue their work and are now supported by Glasgow Connected Arts Network Roles: GYAH, Connecter (South) and Youth Engagement Team.  GCAN, Youth Arts Co-ordinator (current)        
- [Le Swimming](https://bethshapeero.com/2017/07/18/le-swimming/): Peerless Pools at Le Swimming for Glasgow International 2014, The Underground Car Park. Le Swimming – Press Release      

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- [Home](https://bethshapeero.com/): Recent/Upcoming Projects 9-31st Jan          Gallery Artists Act I, The Vanner Gallery, Salisbury 6 Feb-7 March   Gallery Artists Act II, The Vanner Gallery, Salisbury    28-31st May       Installation Artist, Affordable Art Fair, Vienna 25 June- 25 July Beth Shapeero, Solo Show, The Vanner Gallery, Salisbury 27 June- 26 July Chaos and Control: Printmaking in Scotland Now, RSA, Edinburgh Spring 2027  Two-Step at Edinburgh Printmakers (Edinburgh) Studio image of ‘Lime Dash’ and ‘People’ Outer Spaces Sauchiehall Street (former M&S Department store) 2023
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- [Info](https://bethshapeero.com/info/): Work Available Glasgow Print Studio, Glasgow UK ShapeeroMurray, Glasgow, UK The Vanner Gallery, Salisbury, UK Current/Recent/Upcoming Projects Recent/Upcoming Projects 9-31st Jan          Gallery Artists Act I, The Vanner Gallery, Salisbury 6 Feb-7 March   Gallery Artists Act II, The Vanner Gallery, Salisbury    28-31st May       Installation Artist, Affordable Art Fair, Vienna 25 June- 25 July Beth Shapeero, Solo Show, The Vanner Gallery, Salisbury 27 June- 26 July Chaos and Control: Printmaking in Scotland Now, RSA, Edinburgh Spring 2027  Two-Step at Edinburgh Printmakers (Edinburgh) Solo Exhibitions, Projects and Awards Oct 25. Featured artist, Affordable Art Fair, Battersea, London Nov. 24. […]

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