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Caroline Beavon @carolinebeavon.com · 12/08/2026

Plus one day a week will be a field trip - maybe a day out at Tate Modern or a day of back to back films at the cinema. Now, wish me luck, tell me ONE thing I can do to make this better/practical or ONE art or tech course you’d recommend.

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Caroline Beavon @carolinebeavon.com · 12/08/2026

So I find myself at somewhat of a crossroads. I’ve just wrapped some client work, a few recent art opportunities didn’t quite pan out as expected, so I’m now looking down the barrel of ... nothing to do.

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Caroline Beavon @carolinebeavon.com · 13/07/2026

I have NO idea how I'll get on ... I'm pretty hungry to get stuck into some new software which needs darker / blackout space but Im also looking forward to playing with CCTV cameras. Watch this space - and do say hi. #brightonartist #midstreetlab #installationart #digitalartist #mediaartist

Poster for PLAY/RECORD open studio residency by digital artist Caroline Beavon, 19 Jul–14 Aug 2026 at Mid Street Lab, Kemptown, Brighton; shows a smiling halftone portrait, open hours (Wed–Sun mornings and afternoons), QR code and social handles.

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Caroline Beavon @carolinebeavon.com · 13/07/2026

My work may begin in sketchbooks but it ends up on touchscreens, projections and monitors - big and it's hot and a right old faff. The chance to move into Mid Street Lab in Kemptown Brighton for 4 weeks means I can test whether a studio is right for me. www.carolinebeavon.com/play_record/

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Caroline Beavon @carolinebeavon.com · 13/07/2026

The space to play and the time to make What 4 weeks and 40 sq m means to me. The more I've settled into my 'artist' identity, the more I've been frustrated at not being able to actually do it. www.carolinebeavon.com/play_record/

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Caroline Beavon @carolinebeavon.com · 10/07/2026

>>Showreel - this 8 minute looping film captures the other work that doesn't quite fit in ... animations, reels, retro graphics and futuristic noise. Open Wed - Sun 9am - 11am and 3pm-6pm - do pop in! #artexhibition #artinstallation #brightonart

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Caroline Beavon @carolinebeavon.com · 10/07/2026

>>Watch - A collection of broken monitors and old tech, with CCTV cameras nesting in the gaps - the eyes are watching you. #surveillance #glitchart #brokenmonitors

Cluster of malfunctioning computer monitors leaning on the floor displaying colorful glitch patterns and a high‑contrast eye on the central screen, with black‑and‑white printed photos scattered beneath, forming digital decay / glitch‑art installation.

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Caroline Beavon @carolinebeavon.com · 10/07/2026

>> Scrollbook - this is my living digital sketchbook - a playground for weird textures, blended photography and illustration. I"ll be hoping to add more pages to this during the residency. #scrollbook #digitalart

Digital art workspace with multiple monitors and a laptop showing a repeated grainy white portrait beside moon shapes, a large Wacom drawing tablet displaying a colorful glitch-style face, and stacked sketchbooks and notebooks spread across a wooden desk.

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Caroline Beavon @carolinebeavon.com · 10/07/2026

If you popped into our Artist Open House The Imposter Club then you will have seen them there, but if you want a quick run down ... Glitch - a narrative scrollytelling piece about the outsider - I'm SO proud of it and want more people to see it. #scrollytelling

Dark corner turned into a small mystical altar bathed in purple and green galaxy projections on the wall, featuring a lamp, a glowing orb, scattered tarot cards, a dark mannequin head topped with battery candles, and a projected collage of stars and symbols.

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Caroline Beavon @carolinebeavon.com · 10/07/2026

Here's one I made earlier ... I'll be moving into Mid Street Lab gallery in Kemptown Brighton for a month next week to make NEW scrollytelling, interactive and projected work in a studio area. But alongside that will be an exhibition space where my existing work will be on display #brightonartist

Bold neon text reading "HERE'S ONE I MADE EARLIER" overlays a grungy dark-brown background filled with glowing yellow, wire-like plant forms and floating stylized eyes, giving a playful, psychedelic DIY vibe.

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Caroline Beavon @carolinebeavon.com · 07/07/2026

My open hours will be 9am - 11am then 3pm-6pm Wed to SUN PLUS I'm having a dedicated testing and feedback day on Saturday the 8th of August. Are you in? bit.ly/playrecord

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Caroline Beavon @carolinebeavon.com · 07/07/2026

As of next week I'll be holed up in Mid Street Lab in Kemptown making and showing and testing and making and showing some more ... I WANT people to come in while Im messing about with wires .. . I want people to prod and poke and have a go and see what happens. bit.ly/playrecord

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Caroline Beavon @carolinebeavon.com · 07/07/2026

You see. I could wait to let people in only when I have a gallery filled with perfectly glitching monitors, projectors that don't overheat and ancient desktops that NEVER lose connection .. but what would be the fun in that? Instead I'm choosing to create in public (kinda). bit.ly/playrecord

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Caroline Beavon @carolinebeavon.com · 07/07/2026

I'm never going to be ready ... Perfection being the enemy to getting s*** done ... and all that Ok - so I have a 4 week residency coming up in Brighton (I may have mentioned it! haha) and I'm having to do some brain-management.

Bold neon-yellow text reads "BUCKLE UP FOLKS, ITS GOING TO GET BUMPY" over blue-green starry light projections on a dark room wall, creating a dramatic, playful warning.

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Caroline Beavon @carolinebeavon.com · 04/07/2026

Digital isn't scary - it can be human, warm and lovely. So I'm inviting Brighton artists with a discomfort about digital to a play session. Draw on digital tablets, scan in your work and see it animated, layered or projected. Sat 25 July 10-5 - drop in Mid Street Lab, St George's Rd, Kemptown.

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Caroline Beavon @carolinebeavon.com · 04/07/2026

My art does not begin on a screen, it begins in the page of a Moleskine ... all smudged ink water brushes, smeary greasy and random doodles. I'm now more transparent about showing these alongside the finished interactive digital work - it adds context, people understand where it's come from.

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Caroline Beavon @carolinebeavon.com · 04/07/2026

Oil painters refusing to enter a room full of monitors, people freaked out by dead CCTV cameras, passers-by assuming "it's just AI". In a few weeks I'll be holed up in Mid Street Lab gallery in Kemptown surrounded by screens, tablets, cables and projectors + as well as sketchbooks, ink and paint.

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Caroline Beavon @carolinebeavon.com · 04/07/2026

Why can't we all just get along? I've been showing my digital work in group shows on and off for over a year now... and I've noticed something. Some people really hate technology.

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Caroline Beavon @carolinebeavon.com · 02/07/2026

Which is why I'm opening the doors from time to time, so people can check on me. I'll be projection mapping in TouchDesigner, designing for touchscreens and freaking people out with some rusty old CCTV cameras. What this space. #artresidency #artinstallation #touchdesigner #cctvart

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Caroline Beavon @carolinebeavon.com · 02/07/2026

But it's just hit me. I'll be entirely alone in a space for four weeks with no brief, no client work, no deadlines, and no direction. How the hell will I get anything done? My ADHD is gonna flip outl and there's a strong chance I'll fall headlong down some rabbit hole or other. #adhdartist

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Caroline Beavon @carolinebeavon.com · 02/07/2026

Be careful what you wish for ... For a while now, I've been craving some space and time to mess around with my art practice. And when the opportunity came up to borrow Mid Street Lab, in Kemptown Brighton, I jumped at it. www.carolinebeavon.com/play_record/ #brightonartist #scrollytelling

Glitched cyan halftone portrait of a person wearing glasses, overlaid with large neon pink-and-yellow text reading "BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU WISH FOR," conveying a bold warning about unintended consequences amid digital distortion.

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Caroline Beavon @carolinebeavon.com · 25/06/2026

Conference time! I’ll be showing off my super-weird #scrollytelling piece Scrollbook at #evolve26 tomorrow in Brighton. Come and find me and I’ll give you a teeny tiny sticker. + I’m up for chatting about creative projects, collabs, paid work and why you might need a pet artist of your very own

A black background with a cropped piece of pink face, and a whole pink face wearing round sunglasses -= a pink sound file sits in the glasses and across the bottom of the image.

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Caroline Beavon @carolinebeavon.com · 17/06/2026

Exciting news!! > I'm doing a month long open studio residency at a gallery in Brighton in July. I'll be holed up in Mid Street Lab working on new digital/analogue hybrid artwork ... I'm opening the doors Wed - Sun 9am-11am + 3pm-6pm so do pop in www.carolinebeavon.com/play_record

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Caroline Beavon @carolinebeavon.com · 04/06/2026

Why can’t I just play games as they’re supposed to be played? Instead I’m using @helleborezine Magical Cards deck to conjure a new game: a journey where you travel through the magical sites building an army of supporters .. but watch out for those visions!! #helleborezine #cardgame #gamedesigner

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Caroline Beavon @carolinebeavon.com · 04/06/2026

My work focus album. Probably 100 times a year

Leftfield leftism album cover. Blue background. Shark jaws around a camera lens.

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Caroline Beavon @carolinebeavon.com · 02/06/2026

Dear diary. For years I’ve wanted to start a studio diary / log … a place to publicly jot down what I’m working on, ideas, thoughts etc. without flooding my Substack subscribers + how do you not burn out? do you keep an online diary? Where? Tips and tricks please. #studiodiary #artpractice

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Caroline Beavon @carolinebeavon.com · 02/06/2026

Looking for inspiration … Currently discovering the ‘father of video art’ Nam June Paik as I research artists based on my current practice (old tech, monitors, projection and CCTV cameras …) So, who next? #NamJunePaik #VideoArt #MediaArt #ArtHistory #InstallationArt #SelfTaughtArtist #arthelp

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Caroline Beavon @carolinebeavon.com · 29/05/2026

I'm broken. 17 monitors. 4 CCTV cameras. 4 weekends. One meeting room in Brighton. I built something. Then destroyed it. Four times. Full debrief: carolinebeavon.substack.com/p/the-broken...

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Caroline Beavon @carolinebeavon.com · 05/03/2026

Are you making weird, creative, interactive web content? Getting freaky with digital storytelling or no-code web building tools? Me too. Let’s be friends. Tell me about yourself. #digitalstorytelling #nocodedesign #weirdweb #digitalcreativity #creativefreelancer

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Caroline Beavon @carolinebeavon.com · 11/08/2025

The Skull Birds are hunting again. Scroll decides who survives. I build strange interactive stories - open to collaborations & commissions. #InteractiveStory #Scrollytelling #ImmersiveArt #WeirdArtWorld #DigitalStorytelling #Collab

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Caroline Beavon @carolinebeavon.com · 09/08/2025

LAST CHANCE (for now ... ) GLITCH is still pulsing quietly in the corner at Mid‑Street Lab. If you’ve been meaning to go—this is it. Queer, soft, layered, glitchy, emotional. 📍Open 12–5, Sat & Sun. Ends Aug 10. Info: buff.ly/WN3SApW #BrightonArt #StillIAmBecauseYouAre

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Caroline Beavon @carolinebeavon.com · 06/08/2025

Humpday blues? Come sit with GLITCH. It’s not flashy - it’s just there, gently holding you in the in‑between. Part of Still, I Am Because You Are at Mid‑Street Lab, Brighton. Open 12–5, free to visit. 🌀 Until Aug 10. More: buff.ly/WN3SApW #DigitalArt #QueerRest

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Caroline Beavon @carolinebeavon.com · 01/08/2025

GLITCH has been quietly scrolling in the corner at Mid‑Street Lab all week. Glitchy, emotional digital story about identity and quiet resistance. 📍Brighton. Open until Aug 10. More info: buff.ly/WN3SApW #BrightonArt #StillIAmBecauseYouAre

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Caroline Beavon @carolinebeavon.com · 05/06/2025

Glitch — my first scrollable immersive installation. Inspired by the surrealists as social hackers. Huge thanks to The Writers’ Mark for curating The Leonora Banquet at Brighton Fringe, and to The Regency Town House for hosting. #scrollytelling #immersive #surrealism #neon

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Caroline Beavon @carolinebeavon.com · 22/04/2025

You're invited to Glitch: as part of The Leonora Banquet exhibition at Brighton Fringe 2025. Glitch is an interactive, scrollable adventure through a surrealist world. Find out more + tickets at > www.brightonfringe.org/events/the-l... #leonoracarrington #surrealistart #scrollytelling

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Caroline Beavon @carolinebeavon.com · 02/04/2025

Can I continue to keep my design and art practice separate? They're the same thing right? So why do they belong in different parts of my brain? The creativity from my art practice feeds my commercial work ... which itself pays for time for me to play.

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Caroline Beavon @carolinebeavon.com · 31/03/2025

Collabbed on a zine at my monthly digital storytelling night. 2 hours absolute chaos. Would I have done it alone? Nope. Would I do it again? Immediately. Collaboration is weird. Completely worth it. Full story + download here: buff.ly/mM0lobh #ZineLife #CreativeCollab #ExperimentalArt

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Caroline Beavon @carolinebeavon.com · 28/03/2025

Collaboration's kinda a new thing for me . .so I'm still finding my feet when it comes to blending my ideas with someone else's. What if I’d pushed harder? What if I'd shut up and let it happen? Who knows ... Substack: buff.ly/mM0lobh #CreativeStruggles #Collaboration #ArtistThoughts

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Caroline Beavon @carolinebeavon.com · 21/03/2025

I straddle two creative worlds: design and art. One is about solving problems. The other is about exploring them. One pays the bills. The other keeps me sane. They're getting closer together. Will they meet in the middle? Watch this space. #CreativeProcess #ArtVsDesign #FreelanceLife

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Caroline Beavon @carolinebeavon.com · 16/03/2025

Hi - I’m a scrollytelling artist based in Brighton UK. I turn my sketchbook artwork and mixed media elements into interactive web experiences - www.carolinebeavon.com/scrollbook

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Caroline Beavon @carolinebeavon.com · 16/03/2025

Hi - I’m a scrollytelling artist based in Brighton UK. I turn my sketchbook artwork and mixed media elements into interactive web experiences - www.carolinebeavon.com/scrollbook

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Caroline Beavon @carolinebeavon.com · 16/03/2025

Hi - I’m a scrollytelling artist based in Brighton UK. I turn my sketchbook artwork and mixed media elements into interactive web experiences - www.carolinebeavon.com/scrollbook

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Caroline Beavon @carolinebeavon.com · 16/03/2025

Hi - I’m a scrollytelling artist based in Brighton UK. I turn my sketchbook artwork and mixed media elements into interactive web experiences - www.carolinebeavon.com/scrollbook

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Caroline Beavon @carolinebeavon.com · 16/03/2025

Well this is crushingly depressing … but a great example of solid #datajournalism “The right dominates the online media ecosystem, seeping into sports, comedy, and other supposedly nonpolitical spaces” www.mediamatters.org/google/right...

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Caroline Beavon @carolinebeavon.com · 10/03/2025

It’s been ages since I sat and doodled on the beach. Neon oil pastels, Crayola crayons and colour pencil #Sketchbook #artist #art #doodling #artistsonbluesky #oilpastels

page featuring a colorful, abstract humanoid figure with an oversized, swirling head in shades of orange, pink, blue, and purple. The figure has a small bird-like face, a rounded body, thin legs, and is wearing sneakers. The background consists of expressive, swirling lines.

A double-page spread in a sketchbook. On the left, a rounded figure with a long braid, dressed in a robe-like garment, has their head tilted downward. On the right, a hooded figure in a baseball hat stands against a swirling sun-like backdrop in orange and pink. Art supplies, including markers and pastels, are visible in the background.

A close-up of a sketchbook page featuring a ghostly figure, partially outlined in blue. Their face is partially obscured, with pink and blue shading. Jagged, mountain-like shapes in the background, drawn in black and purple, frame the figure. The texture of the pencil and pastel strokes is rough and expressive.

A sketchbook spread featuring two figures. The larger central figure has long, wild orange hair, pointed ears, and sunglasses. They wear a long dress with a structured, almost robotic silhouette. Their outstretched arm appears to gesture or direct. A smaller figure, dressed in purple, stands to their side with a neutral expression. The drawing has strong black outlines with pink, blue, and orange shading, giving it a surreal, layered appearance. Art supplies and pebbles are visible in the background.

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Caroline Beavon @carolinebeavon.com · 06/03/2025

I'm a serial oversharer of my creative output. And sometimes it backfires. So now, I do this: - Am I after feedback or just a dopamine hit? - Wait 48 hrs - am I still excited? Go for it. - Does it need context? - Ask - why do I love it? - Choose my audience wisely. #CreativeProcess #ADHD

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Caroline Beavon @carolinebeavon.com · 26/02/2025

Dress Like You’re Five day comes round quicker every year* #dresslikeyourefiveday #dresslikeyourefive *yes I know .. EVERY day should be Dress Like You’re Five Day

A pair of legs adorned in a glorious grey tulle skirt and a pair of black lace up platform Jaden Dr Martens boots

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