‘My art practice began as a way to confront my own loneliness, particularly through the Covid-19 pandemic. I build collapsible flat-pack sculptures that are easily transportable, allowing my work to move freely and assert its presence in public spaces in a way that is minimally destructive. They also exist as sterile companions, ones impermeable to disease and endlessly restorable. There's a certain queerness to this method, as the sculptures transform and adapt to their new, often hostile, public environments. In a world defined by transience and a constant flood of visual information, I've developed a unique process of "cannibalizing" my older works, collaging them together to create something new. This act of re-purposing gives each figure in my art its own history. This history makes them better companions.’

Born in Brighton, Iris May is a mixed-media artist and curator based in Glasgow. Studying an Art Foundation in Nottingham, gaining an interest in figurative works during the COVID-19 pandemic, she went on to study Painting&Printmaking at the Glasgow School of Art. After taking part in an exchange program to AUArts, she studied a wider range of mediums, resulting in her first solo show in Calgary at Rumblehouse Gallery in 2023. In conjunction with the GSASA, her second co-curated show ‘Unpacking’ opened the following Spring, focused on displacement and raising funds for refugees. After transitioning into collapsible sculptural works and large-scale murals, notable recent exhibitions include a solo-show following a residency with Shift Gallery in May 2026 and being a member of the Germinator programme for selected graduates which concluded in Spring. She was also selected for the RSA New Contemporaries and is one of the two directors of Stuck?Collective CIC, the organisation running the Sculpture Park at 522 Sauchiehall Street.