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Second Person
2026 - ongoing
Photo series

This work is the product of my ongoing attempt to collaborate with my nearly two-year-old daughter. The project will continue for as long as she is willing, adapting to allow for more agency and co-creation.

Against a backdrop of children’s emergent relationships with the reproduction of their images online, the work stages the issue of how a parent chooses to frame and document their child. These intimate drawing-photo hybrids explore boundaries, storytelling and a tussle of wills.

The images are loosely based on scenes from family life. I make large drawings based on imagery from my own childhood photos and then photograph my daughter interacting with them. The resulting montages are in-person fabrications rather than digitally edited collages. They explore a mother-child-camera relationship and how the families we make are haunted by the ones we come from.

I will be showing the work so far at an exhibtion at Mote102 in Edinburgh, 17-26 April 2026. More info here.

The exhibition also features a collaboration with poet Helena Fornells Nadal, whose series of poems in resonse to the work will be published in the exhibition booklet, with a reading in the gallery on Thursday 23 April, 7-8pm. 
Works in progress at Artwalk Porty 
14-15 September 2024
New ceramics, exhibited at Artwalk Porty, more info here.









Slow Edit  
Leith School of Art, Edinburgh
15 September - 14 December 2023

This exhibition of ceramics and accompanying works explores the materiality of domestic space – the walls, wallpaper, and personal paraphernalia that are the stuff of our immediate surroundings at home.

The works invite reflection on how we write ourselves into the spaces we live in and why we keep the things we keep: the hundreds of photos of nameless views; the albums collected from the chemist still in their original packaging; the children’s drawings that make it onto the kitchen wall and stay there.

The starting point for Slow Edit was a stack of 90s paper photo albums from the artist’s childhood and the textured wallpaper that covers her studio walls. With digital technology increasingly replacing the paper trails of lives lived, the works explore how our memories are embedded in the materials around us and within the material culture of our times.



Quick Photo series
2023
Glazed stoneware








Left:
Fingers
 2023
Stoneware with glaze
9x 28cm
Right:
Siblings
2023
Stoneware with glaze
28 x 28cm



House piece (i-iii)
2023
Glazed stoneware with acrylic and varnish
Each 24 x 24cm




Crack
2023
Stoneware with glaze, acrylic and varnish
28 x 38cm




Wrinkle
2022
Glazed stoneware
18 x 24cm


Kitchen Wall
 2023
Stoneware with glaze, acrylic and varnish
20 x 30cm



Worn (i)
2023
Stoneware
30 x 30 x 12cm


Worn (ii)
2023
Stoneware
30 x 30 x 12cm
Left:
Flaking
2023
Stoneware with glaze
30 x 37cm




Right:
Pattern
2023
Plaster
40 x 55cm

Looking through photos
2023
Assorted fabrics
90 x 210cm
Fabrications  
Verdant Works, Dundee
5 August - 26 November 2023

Fabrications is about acts of making and making things up. Often taking a childhood photo as a starting point, Becky Brewis handmakes large, mixed-media jute embroideries which explore the outer edges of memory – where fact becomes fantasy, and the personal becomes mythic.

Jute is tough and hard-wearing but also yielding and easily frayed at the edges, making it an expressive medium for exploring memory, physicality and the passage of time.

These five works are presented in the context of the social history galleries at Verdant Works, where human stories are told through the lens of the jute-making process.


Surgery Waiting Room in about 1995
2020
Mixed media
150cm x 180cm
Shadow
2023
Jute and embroidery silks
12cm x 18cm



Good hair, good teeth, good skin
2019
Mixed media
150cm x 180cm



Legs
2019
Mixed media embroidery
75cm x 150cm





Little Red Riding Hood 
2022
Jute and mixed media
150cm(w) x 185cm(h)