Beacon Arts Centre to display work by contemporary artists

Beacon Arts Centre is getting ready to showcase the work of Daisy Richardson, Joan McKeeman, and Joanie Jack.

The team at the Beacon say the trio’s creations will take audiences on ‘an engaging journey through painting, drawing and textile-based practice, exploring themes of landscape, materiality, memory and our relationship to place’.

Exhibition curator Fraser Taylor said: “We have a very thrilling exhibition programme to kick off 2026.

“Daisy Richardson, Joan McKeeman, and Joanie Jack are three highly relevant contemporary artists, all working in very different ways and reflecting their personal relationships to the world around them.”

Work by Daisy Richardson (Image: Beacon Arts Centre)

Daisy Richardson’s ‘We were all made in Burning Stars’ will run from January 17 until February 14.

Her work explores ideas of time and space, the formation of the earth, human history and our place within it.

Daisy’s paintings seek to ‘domesticate vast concepts through intimate imagery’, using tables and chairs to represent human presence, stripped-back interiors for fragile environments, and meteorites for symbols of the unknown.

Work by Joan McKeeman (Image: Beacon Arts Centre)

Colourist Light by Joan McKeeman will run from February 21 until April 25.

Joan’s work is ‘rooted in landscape painting, characterised by loose, expressive brushwork and a strong colourist sensibility’.

She is inspired by the west coast of Scotland and since returning to Greenock, she has focused on drawing and painting familiar local places cherished by the community for their beauty, calm and ‘quiet sense of awe’.

Work by Joanie Jack (Image: Beacon Arts Centre)

Joanie Jack’s ‘Beyond Belief’ will run at the arts centre from May 2 until June 27.

Joanie’s work centres on repurposed materials and she uses stitching as a form of drawing to make ‘striking and tactile’ creations – from interactive textiles designed to be worn or handled, to sculptural textile forms intended to be experienced and observed.

For more information about each of the three exhibitions see the Beacon Arts Centre’s website.