BECOMING RED
SOLO SHOW
French Street, Glasgow
2022
Engaging with my own queerness in a body which is other, embracing the odd, the uncanny and the feeling of becoming other. The act of becoming Betty the Strawberry is the act of understanding my own queerness, understanding the issues Betty faces and what others see in them. It’s not easy being red, living life the colour of blood, it’s not easy being red it seems you don’t blend in with other ordinary things.
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This exhibition explores Bry’s ongoing existence as her alter ego Betty the Strawberry, the childhood experiences and supermarket mascot that helped form Betty, and how these channel through Betty to depict Bry’s relationship with her own queerness and the body.
As Betty, Bry explores how the tension between your physical and mental self is pulled farther apart when either experiences sickness or a change of state. Betty provides a vessel for exploring the body as a physical manifestation of being othered - by external sources for living as a queer body and resisting societal norms, as well as internally; othered by your own body and how you perceive yourself within it. Exhibited all together for the first time in Bry's first solo exhibition in the UK, Becoming Red presents an autobiographical archive of Betty the Strawberry, depicted through moving image, print, painting, and performance.
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Text : Cabbage, Jenny Tipton
Exhibition photos : Sean Patrick Campbell
Opening photos : Alexis Galbrun-Thauré
Multilingual
Experimental
Film (2025)
53min
The film delves into the intertwined crises of climate change and chronic illness, drawing connections across three landscapes that hold personal significance: Scotland, Finland, and France. A central question underpins the work: Is the Earth itself chronically ill? Through reflections on my own experience of chronic illness, I explore how ecological fragility mirrors human vulnerability, endurance, and adaptation.
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This piece offers a meditation on the climate crisis and chronic illness, journeying through three countries and the changing seasons. Blending poetry, satire, and science, it creates a space for quiet contemplation, inviting us to recognise our gestures towards ourselves and nature as acts of care. The film follows a solitary character as they engage intimately with their environment, listening to sounds from mountain peaks to lake depths. Their movements echo the tenderness of human connection, though they share it with ferns, water, and an unseen audience, embodying a reverence for the natural world.
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Language: Finnish, English and French
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Research funded by Creative Scotland Open Fund 2023-2024
