Caroline Beavon
Selected portfolio

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.

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Pinocchio: collage and the unmistakably human

In 2024 I joined a week-long art challenge to reinterpret scenes from Pinocchio.

In a world where AI produces flawless polished illustration, I wanted to make something weird, messy and unmistakably human. The same collage instinct that drives my archive work — layering, rummaging, finding meaning in fragments — is here in its rawest form.