Your Heart to a Dog to tear

Grace Lee studied BA Fine Art at Goldsmiths and MFA Fine Art at Slade, and was awarded the Prankerd Jones Memorial Prize in 2020 and the Bartolomeu dos Santos Memorial Prize in 2021. They work across painting and animation, and have recently exhibited with South Parade and Huxley Parlour.

 “I'm repeatedly drawn to contradiction, when two seemingly opposing forces exist together. That friction between fear and excitement or nurturing and overbearing, a state that could so quickly tip from one to the other but never fully commits to either side. Animals and objects become the perfect vessel for this ambiguity, under our command but perhaps also entering with an agency of their own. They come with their own struggle for dominance, but one that is frequently humorous in delivery. I think contradiction is a defiant state and so can't help but be cheeky. Everything is a joke, and everything is completely sincere.”

@worstgracescenarios
graceisonline.com


SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

2022. A Ray of Light, Banana Pai, Shenzhen, China (Upcoming)
2022. New Mythologies II, Huxley Parlour, London, UK
2022. Pathways on Paper, South Parade, London UK
2022. Assemble, VO Curations, London, UK
2021. GIRAF Animation Festival, Calgary, Canada
2021. Slade Summer Show, Slade School of Fine Art, London, UK
2021. Reconnecting, Fitzrovia Gallery, London, UK
2021. GLASS Animation Festival, Berkeley, California, USA
2020. Slade Runner, ASC Gallery, London, UK
2018. FBA Futures, Mall Galleries, London, UK
2018. Bristol Film Festival, Bristol, UK
2017. World Art, Cass Art Islington, London, UK
2017. Goldsmiths BA Show, Goldsmiths, London, UK
2017. Bite Me, Marketplace Studios, Manchester, UK
2017. Objects In The Mirror May Be Closer Than They Appear, Lewisham Art House, London, UK
2016. All In One, Piazza Martiri della Libertà, Chiari, Italy
2016. is_this_it_is_this_it 26th Exhibition (online)
2016. What We Saw From The Cheap Seats, The Deptford Project, London, UK
2016. White Dwarf, Red Giant, Supernova, Black Hole, Lewisham Shopping Centre, London, UK
2015. National Open Art Winner’s Exhibition, Pallant House Gallery, Chichester, UK
2015. National Open Art Competition, The Royal College of Art, London, UK
2015. Identity/Memory Part 2, The Gallery on the Corner, London, UK
2015. Summer Salon, Islington Arts Factory, London, UK
2015. Identity/Memory, Frameless Gallery, London, UK

AWARDS

2021. The Barto Dos Santos Memorial Award
2020. The Prankerd Jones Memorial Prize
2015. NOA15 East of England Award
2015. The Worshipful Company of Painters-Stainers Award


This exhibition will donate a 10% of its sales to All Dogs Matter.

“ All Dogs Matter is a dog rescue and rehoming charity working in and around London to transform the lives of unwanted and abandoned dogs. We also rehome dogs in need from overseas.
In 2021 All Dogs Matter rescued and rehomed 330 dogs with new owners. We also found forever homes for 48 unwanted and abandoned dogs from China, Egypt and Italy.”