Meet the Artists: ts Beall and Katie Anderson
Remembering Together: Dumfries and Galloway have appointed their artists to co-create memorials with communities. Meet ts Beall and Katie Anderson
dr t s Beall is a socially-engaged artist and researcher based in Dumfries and Glasgow, working with diverse communities on durational artworks which aim to recover and celebrate underknown histories. For the last decade she has developed projects in both rural and post-industrial urban environments, collaborating with under-represented communities across Scotland and internationally. Her work spans a variety of media including performative events, printed matter, and creative interventions in the public realm.
She is currently Lead Artist for WoveninGovan and one of seven commissioned artists in WovenNetwork (Scotland/Sweden/Ukraine) both investigating care/working and women’s care burden during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Dr ts Beall and Katie Anderson (images: Chris Leslie, Galina Walls)
Katie Anderson is a public artist, working across sculpture, installation, sound, lettering, and participatory practice based from her home and studio near Annan. Her practice as an artist is about establishing projects alongside, and as part of, communities – creating work that has its foundations in a sense of place.
For Remembering Together Dumfries and Galloway, artists t s Beall and Katie Anderson are working on a collective project to speak to communities, groups, and individuals across the region - asking what they would like to be remembered, and what form a community Covid memorial for D&G might take.
The project will take place from August to December 2022, and includes a travelling ‘Tree of Remembrance’ sculpture, a programme of creative workshops, and remote postcard and digital activities for those unable to participate in person.
Looking to speak to a variety of people across Dumfries and Galloway, the project will tour and visit public events and community spaces, as well as hosting more intimate conversations and workshops with key groups – including unpaid care workers and NHS staff, young people, those in rural communities, and New Scots.