Caroline Beavon
Selected portfolio
104 Days Later: A scrollable data story
Commissioned by the University of Brighton’s ART/DATA/HEALTH project, 104 Days Later was designed to capture the UK’s lockdown experience - while we were still in it.
I created five immersive journeys through pandemic data, each one designed to feel like the experience it represented - physical health, mental health, financial health, home life and the experience of Global Majority communities.
The mental health section opened with a bubble chart - ONS figures on stress, boredom, and loneliness. From there, the story frayed into coloured threads: tangled paths of overlapping issues.
Click a face, and you heard a real voice talking about their experience.
This felt like such an important project - capturing a unique moment in time.
Glitch: a queer scrollable journey
Glitch: a scrollable journey through the outsider experience
Glitch is a narrative scrollytelling piece about what it means to live outside the norm — to be watched, othered, masked, and to find community and transformation anyway.
Built from collage, rough graphics and glitchy aesthetics, it layers reals and textures into an immersive journey through surveillance, concealment and rebellion. Queer, trans and outsider audiences have found themselves deeply in it — some have cried, some have come back repeatedly.
Shown at Leonora's Banquet Brighton Fringe 2025, I Am Because You Are at Mid Street Lab Brighton, and The Imposter Club Artists Open Houses May 2026.
MyRoute: bringing archives to life with interaction
MyRoute was an interactive touch table built for Sampad's major Heritage Lottery Fund community heritage project on Stratford Road, Birmingham — documenting the history of the street from the 1940s to the present day.
I wanted people to grab time. To trace their street, their landmarks, their memories — layered across decades. Think: history meets interface. Like flicking through your neighbourhood's photo album, but on a screen you could touch, explore and share.
I led the concept and content — researching and mapping over a hundred homes across five time periods, curating archival material, directing user experience and managing a volunteer team — collaborating with the touch table designer to bring this multi-voiced, multi-decade story to life.
Nearly 25,000 people connected with the My Route experience.
Video credit / with thanks to Sampad South Asian Arts & Heritage
Scrollbook: digital collage and deep worlds
Scrollbook is an ongoing, ever-changing piece of digital work.
It started life as a digital playground - a sandbox for me to test interaction ideas and motion design for client work. Now it's a centrepiece, presented on a large touch screen.
Combining hand drawn elements, sketchbook layering, manipulated photographs and textures, I create non-narrative worlds which take the visitor on a journey through emotion.
Artists Open House 2026: building at scale
My most ambitious installation to date — a single room transformed into a dark space. Blackout blinds, 17 screens, two interactive pieces, analogue CCTV cameras, and Watch running on loop.
I intentionally used borrowed, second-hand and repurposed technology — misusing traditional items for non-traditional ends. Constraints become aesthetic. Old hardware becomes atmosphere.
Visitors moved through the space differently to how they move through a gallery. They stayed longer. They touched things. They came back again later.
Watch: surveillance installation at Artist Open House
Watch: the watched and the watching
Watch is a looping video piece built from old, grainy CCTV footage — an eye that never closes.
It makes people simultaneously uncomfortable and fascinated. Not because of its content, but because of something older — the presence of the lens, the grain, the sense of being observed by something that has been watching for a long time. An old analogue camera unsettles in a way a shiny modern one doesn't. The old one has memory in it.
Shown as part of The Imposter Club installation, Artists Open Houses May 2026.
The Story of Sarga: a marine scrolly
The Story of Sarga is a scrollytelling epic for kids about the migration of the American Eel.
Live audiences watched as our hero, Sarga, swim from the Sargasso Sea through rivers and dams - and cheered her on every step of the way.
In this segment our hero, Sarga, hit a dam - her first real trial. For many eels, this is the end. What will she do?
I used a horizontal scroll right at the moment Sarga’s path was blocked.
The screen shifts. Sarga noses along the dam. You feel the tension. And when she finds a way through - so does the story.
The kids loved it. The client loved it. I loved it.