School of Fine Art / Painting & Printmaking / Thea Crawford / The Body After the Screen

The Body After the Screen

These installation views document my degree show works in situ, bringing together composite bodies, propositional portraits and 3D work shaped by post-digital painting methods. The exhibition gathers the processes, fragments and surfaces developed across my final year, extending the movement between digital collage, airbrushed painting and sculptural form into a single physical encounter.

This language is developed in dialogue with my dissertation, Vibrant Matters and Rhizomatic Deterritorialisation: Building a Lexicon of Post-Digital Painting, where I began to define terms for the studio logic running through the work. Across the exhibition, a vocabulary of flesh emerges through repeated bodily fragments, substitutions, staged surfaces and visible seams. Terms such as edge discipline and compression aesthetics become ways of naming how the work moves between screen and surface: from hard masked edges and airbrushed gradients to moments of distortion, compression and material translation.

Together, the works reflect on the circulation of femme queer bodies across contemporary image culture, tracing how bodies are fragmented, consumed, recirculated and made visible through digital space. The installation brings these questions into scale, surface and physical proximity, holding the body as constructed, mediated and materially present: partial, exposed, withheld and open to multiple readings.

Installation

Glasgow School of Art Degree Show Install, 2026

Corpus

2026, acrylic on board, 20 x 30 cm

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Corpus (side view)

2026, acrylic on board, 20 x 30 cm

Proxy

2026, acrylic on board, 20 x 30 cm

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Proxy (side view)

2026, acrylic on board, 20 x 30 cm

Effigy

2026, acrylic and modelling paste on board, 20 x 30 cm

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Effigy (side view)

2026, acrylic and modelling paste on board, 20 x 30 cm

Homunculus

2026, acrylic on board, 20 cm x 30 cm

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Homunculus (side view)

2026, acrylic on board, 20 x 30 cm

Three Studies for a Composite Figure I

2026, acrylic on canvas, 120 x 170 cm

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Three Studies for a Composite Figure II

2026, acrylic on canvas, 118 x 170 cm

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Three Studies for a Composite Figure III

2026, acrylic on canvas, 120 x 170 cm

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Installation View

Left: Corpus Right: Three Studies for a Composite Figure I

Installation View

Left: Three Studies for a Composite Figure II Rigt: Effigy

Installation View

Wall: Homunculus Floor: Armature

Installation View

Left: Three Studies for a Composite Figure II Center: Effigy Right: Three Studies for a Composite Figure III Floor: Armature

Armature

2026 mixed media sculpture: morph suit, hollow fibre stuffing, wire, PVA and acrylic

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Armature (close up)

2026 mixed media sculpture: morph suit, hollow fibre stuffing, wire, PVA and acrylic

Armature

2026 mixed media sculpture: morph suit, hollow fibre stuffing, wire, PVA and acrylic