Grace Crabtree, based in Dorset, UK, recently graduated from the Ruskin School of Art (2016-19). She explores figurative painting that shifts between historical and contemporary reference points, drawing from the traditions of fresco and icon painting, and from modern culture.
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Website: gracecrabtree.co.uk
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Watch Grace discussing her practice for a recent exhibition, Return of the Natives
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Grace Crabtree (b. 1997, UK)
Currently based in Bridport, Dorset, UK
| gracecrabtree.co.uk
Education
Turps Banana Correspondence Course 2020-21
Ruskin School of Art, University of Oxford, Bachelor of Fine Art, 2016-2019 (First Class)
Falmouth University, Foundation Diploma in Art and Design, 2015-2016 (Distinction)
Selected exhibitions
2021
Life on Venus II: The Human The Auction Collective
Forthcoming in February: Life on Venus III (online)
Forthcoming in February: Return of the Natives II, Bridport Arts Centre (online)
2020
Life on Venus I: The Landscape, The Tub, Hackney, and virtual auction at The Auction Collective
Painters Still Painting, online exhibition at Bridport Contemporary (bridportcontemporary.com)
19+1, online group exhibition and reunion, one year after graduating from the Ruskin (19plus.one)
New Narratives, Literary and Scientific Institute, Bridport
2019
Ruskin Degree Show, Ruskin School of Art, Oxford
Ensemble Fictions, Silvie, Oxford
St Anne's Arts Festival, Oxford
2018
Middle Ground, Oxford
Hogacre Common Art Show, Oxford
2017
St Anne’s Arts Festival, Oxford
Dolphin Gallery, Oxford
Internships
2018
Musée Matisse, Nice, France
John Hansard Gallery, Southampton, UK
Residencies and prizes
2020
Zaratan AIR, Lisbon, Portugal
2019
Shortlisted for the Kevin Slingsby Prize
Draw International Artist-in-Residence, Caylus, France