Studio Sale 2023 | Grace Crabtree

20 JANUARY 2023 - 08 FEBRUARY 2023
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7. Grace Crabtree

The river’s bend

Signed and dated (on the reverse)
Egg tempera on paper
24 x 32 cm (unframed) 
Painted in 2022

ESTIMATE


£150 - 300

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Studio Sale 2023 | Grace Crabtree (7/14)

Notes


A river’s bend takes its title from the Old Norse etymology for ‘Bowland’, from boga- or bogi-, meaning a ‘bend in a river’. The Forest of Bowland area is characterised by stark, open moorland, a scattering of woodlands, and cut through with dry-stone walls, and roads meandering through the river valleys. This painting began with a view from high up, looking out to the hills and down to a remote farm below. In the high midday sun, the road glistened silver like the slow-moving river it traced in the valley below.” – 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
@gracecrabtree.art

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