XVA Gallery is thrilled to present LOCAL, a solo exhibition by the Dubai-based artist Jane Beveridge. It explores the textures, rhythms, and everyday encounters that shape life in Dubai, offering a personal meditation on the meaning of place and belonging. The show will be open to the public until 6 April 2026.
In LOCAL, Beveridge turns her attention to the visual language of the city itself. She draws inspiration from the city’s overlooked details: street signage, architectural fragments, weathered surfaces, and the quiet geometries embedded in the urban landscape. Her works transform these familiar elements into layered compositions that move between representation and abstraction. The exhibition highlights how ordinary urban elements can become carriers of memory and identity, encouraging viewers to reconsider the visual environment that surrounds them daily.
Rather than depicting Dubai through iconic landmarks, the exhibition focuses on the more intimate visual language of the street. Beveridge’s artworks evoke the materiality of the city through restrained palettes and carefully constructed surfaces, capturing fleeting impressions of place while hinting at the complex histories embedded within the built environment. The resulting compositions feel both observational and contemplative. They reflect on how memory, movement, and repetition inform our relationship with the spaces we inhabit.
About the artist
Jane Beveridge (b. 1976, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK) is a Dubai-based artist and art educator who grew up in Hong Kong. She studied Graphic Design and Fine Art at the University of Brighton (England, UK), from which she graduated in 1998. Currently, she serves as Head of Art at Dubai College.
Beveridge’s practice is informed by close observation of the city’s visual culture, often drawing from the materials and imagery encountered in everyday urban settings. She employs painting and mixed media to examine how environments shape perception and belonging. The artist translates fragments of the street into compositions that reflect both personal experience and the layered character of contemporary urban life.
To get more information about LOCAL, please visit the official web page of the exhibition.
In addition, you might be interested in attending A Cage Went in Search of a Bird: Architecture as Metaphor, a group show at 1×1 Art Gallery, and Home Is Not A Place by Emilie Dubois.
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