Joely Mae Greally is an artist and facilitator based in the UK working within the field(s) of moving image, performance, video, sound, print, installation & language.
Statement
Joely Mae Greally (born 2001, Manchester) employs a Lo-Fi and D.I.Y way of working which encompasses language, moving image, performance, print, sound and video. Greally’s work inspects the capacity for queered utopias drawing on influences from pop culture and underground scenes. Within her practice, she investigates an incorporeal response to the presence of power within heteronormative thresholds; whilst contemplating matters of pleasure, pain, obsession, care and eroticisms within the parameters of queer embodied experience - both physical and non physical.
Greally draws upon instability in their exploration of the queering of ritual practice, transcendence, failure and duties of the sensual.
What constitutes as the queering of ritual? Where might one unearth queer utopia and eden?
Education, Facilitation & Selected Shows / Performances
Education & Facilitation
Falmouth University / Falmouth School of Art - BA (Hons) Fine Art - (2019-2023)
Selected Shows
It Came In A Dream Debut - Manchester, UK, 2019
Three House Exhibition – Falmouth, UK, 2020
Secret Garden Exhibition – Falmouth, UK,2021
Arts Culture Commune Debut Exhibition – Falmouth, UK, 2021
On Display Artist Moving Image Exhibition (Goldfish Bowl Gallery) - Falmouth, UK, 2021
Womb Rooms Moving Image Exhibition (Belmont Project Space) - Falmouth, UK, 2022
Shapes & Things Exhibition (Ealing Arts Centre) - London, UK 2022
Falmouth Venn Festival - (Falmouth University) - Cornwall, UK,2022
Showcase (Ringling College of Arts) – Florida, USA, 2022
Divinity Studio Scum - (Islington Mill) - Manchester, UK, 2022
I am Difficult to Father Moving Image, Print & Performance Exhibition (Goldfish Bowl Gallery) - Falmouth, UK, 2022
Cornwall Psychedelic Society (Cornish Bank) - Falmouth, UK, 2022
Louder and Softer (Falmouth University) Falmouth, UK, 2023
Visite Festival #11 (HET BOS, CINEMATEK, Royal Belgian Film Archive, School of Arts Ghent) Antwerp, Belgium, 2023
54 Agency Screening (New Cross) Manchester, UK, 2024
Digital Alchemy (Creatives Now) Manchester, UK, 2024
Belonging (The Horsfall) Manchester, UK, 2024
CWYR Issue 2 Launch (Rare Mags) Manchester, UK, 2024
Art Weekend Budapest (Manyi Kulturális Műhely), Budapest, Hungary, 2024
Residencies & Awards
Grosser Garten – Gerswalde, Germany 2020
Parco Andrea Campagna – Milan, Italy 2020
Porthleven Prize Residency – Porthleven, 2022
Cultural Immersion Residency & Study Trip RCAD – Florida, 2022
Back Lane West Artist Residency – Cornwall, 2023
Trabajo Práctico Archive Bootcamp – Valencia, 2024