Winnie Herbstein graduated from Glasgow School of Art in 2014 (Environmental Art). Since then, she has been a Committee Member at Transmission Gallery, Glasgow, and, in 2018, studied at the City of Glasgow College (Women in Construction). She is also a visiting lecturer at Glasgow School of Art.

Winnie’s recent work has focussed upon gendered labour and materials, considering the history of women working in construction and feminist groups, such as the nineties self-build group Take Root. She works across a range of media, from sculpture and text, to drawing and video. The ongoing series Models expands upon skills Winnie acquired on the Women in Construction course, combining construction materials and processes in their formation and showing the imprint of tools, hardware, bodily traces and flora and fauna relating to the environment in which they were made.

Recent solo exhibitions include: Brace (Jupiter Woods, London, 2019), STUDWORK (Glasgow International, 2018) and Riprap, Atelier am Ecke, Düsseldorf. She has shown her work in numerous group shows since 2014 and taken part in the Edinburgh Artist Moving Image Festival and Outpost Open Film. In 2019 the artist was shortlisted for the Margaret Tait Award 2019/2020.

Image: Brace (installation shot), Jupiter Woods 2019. Household plaster, plywood, nails. Film (Minutes), 12 mins. 30secs.