Joely Mae Greally’s practice is expansive consulting mediums such as installation, sound, photography, moving image, printmaking and performance as well as writing practices embodying fragmented and fictional romance rooted in truths. Her works attempt to be both fragmented, fabricated, natural and erotic and she uses opposition and polarity as a working tool.
There is a sensibility of emotional resonance within Greally’s practice which creates involved and intense encounters with her audience and works. Her practice is a response and resistance to the imbalance of power within a heteronormative threshold and her world of images, sounds and experience led practice yearn for a queered utopia as reality drawing influence from pop culture and the underground.
Joely also teaches and facilitates curated workshops and research sessions with her mobile community the Arts Culture Commune (formally, ‘It Came In A Dream’). With this initiative Joely has hosted curated events and micro-residencies for artists elevating femme, queer and working class practitioners.
Education & Facilitation
Falmouth University / Falmouth School of Art - BA (Hons) Fine Art - (2019-2023) First Class Honours
Lead director and facilitator of the Arts Culture Commune (2019-)
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
Spit That Out (Home, Marina’s Cinema) - Manchester, UK, 2025
Echoes Soundscapes x Dazed (Jumbi Peckham) - London, UK, 2025
Residencies, Awards & Funded Research
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
Frieze London Queer British Art Research X Queering the Whitworth Research Trip - London, 2024
Features, Press & Stocklist
ICA (Institute of Contemporary Arts)