No31 Gallery in Duns is hosting matters and flows, by Edinburgh-based artists Beverley Hood and Catherine Street, in recent collage and painting works that showcase their shared interest in bodily experience and representation.

Beverley’s collages incorporate images of faces and limbs cut from magazines and reconfigured to create complex and unsettling hybrid beings. In other works, she uses collaged generative AI to create beautifully-monstrous renderings of fleshy compositions that bulge and multiply on the page.

Catherine, whose work is pictured at top, paints over pages from medical textbooks, rendering scientific understandings of the body partially-obscured by smears of oil paint and thin trickles of colour, suggesting networks of veins or nerves. Her work on paper also bears a relationship to performance, where drawings become records of specific moments in time.

The new works are on paper, and consider meanings and conditions in our physical relationships with ourselves and others, with society and the environment.