Studio Sale 2023 | Grace Crabtree

“The three small paintings in this series (Ancient Pathway, Moorland, Upland Stream) were made from a process of cropping and drawing from details of previous paintings. The memories of the colours, forms, textures of the original landscape began to merge and be replaced by those of the paintings themselves, causing the ‘new’ landscapes to become further removed from the source material and have a life of their own.” – Grace Crabtree, 2022

Grace Crabtree is an artist based in Bridport, West Dorset, whose paintings of land and water are grounded in the experience of walking or swimming, and infused with hints of historic or mythic narratives connected to a place. Working mostly in egg tempera, the painting surfaces hold delicate layers and scratched incisions.

Accolades

Education:
Turps Banana Correspondence Course (2020-2021; 2021-2022); Ruskin School of Art, University of Oxford, Bachelor of Fine Art (2016-2019); Falmouth University, Foundation Diploma in Art and Design (2015-2016).

Selected exhibitions:
Vague Terrain, SET Lewisham, London (2022); Evolver Prize Summer Exhibition, ACEarts, Somerset (2022); Cross Pollination, group residency and exhibition at Bridport Arts Centre, Bridport, Dorset (2022); The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog, Turps Correspondence Course 20/21 (online) (2021); SWAc Annual Open Exhibition, South West Academy, Devon (2021); Small Pleasures II, All Mouth Gallery (online), 2021. Life on Venus I, II & III, The Tub & virtual auction at The Auction Collective, (2020-2021); New Narratives, Literary and Scientific Institute, Bridport, Dorset (2020).

Residencies and grants:
Cyprus College of Art, Lempa, Cyprus (2022); Zaratan AIR, Lisbon, Portugal (2020); DRAWinternational, Caylus, France (2019).

Grace has recently received a DYCP grant from Arts Council England for 'The Art of Fresco', a studio and research project with the aim of furthering a long-standing interest in fresco painting, through specialised training and sustained time for making and researching.

www.gracecrabtree.co.uk
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