ARTIST TALK BY BIBO & BRIAN KEELEY
Join us at Moray Art Centre for an illustrated artists’ talk by Bibo & Brian Keeley, whose exhibition The Shared Heart (12 Years) is running in the gallery until 24 January. The artists will discuss their current exhibition, as well as giving an insight into their wider creative practice, much of which is informed by their shared experience of Brian’s heart transplantation.
The artists’ talk will be followed by an informal reception with refreshments.
As an artist duo, Brian & Bibo have had work commissioned and supported by The Southbank Centre, London, the Scottish Mental Health Festival, Edinburgh Climate Festival, Arts Council of England, and others. Their collaborative films have been shown at the CCA Glasgow, and at The University of Aberdeen’s Elphinstone Institute amongst other places.
Dr. Brian Keeley studied Fine Art at the Glasgow School of Art in the 1980s and later achieved a master’s degree in video production from Bournemouth University. He also trained as a teacher of Art & Design at the University of the West of Scotland and, more recently, completed a PhD in Visual Culture from the University of Aberdeen. As well as being an artist and filmmaker, Brian has variously worked in the community arts sector, as a commercial video editor, and as a secondary school teacher of Art & Design. In 2013, Brian suffered a severe heart attack and, after several months on life-support, survived through having a heart transplant. Brian has been a regular speaker to medical students and clinical professionals at The University of Aberdeen, and at Robert Gordon University, and was guest speaker at the 2023 Society of Radiographers national conference. In 2022 Brian was invited to present an artist talk at the University of Torono’s Frictions of Futurity research project.
Bibo Keeley has been a practising artist for over 15 years, graduating with First Class Honours from Gray’s School of Art in 2019. She previously qualified as a teacher in Germany and later obtained a diploma in Animal Assisted Therapy and Education from the Veterinary University of Vienna. Bibo’s work has been exhibited at The Royal Scottish Academy in Edinburgh, and Perth Museum, with solo shows at the Briggait Gallery in Glasgow, Gallery Seventeen in Aberdeen, and at Haddo House Estate. Her work has been included in the Scottish Portrait Awards Exhibitions, and she has been supported with artist commissions and awards from the Tom McGrath Trust and Jerwood Arts, amongst others.