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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Grace Crabtree (b. 1997, UK)

Currently based in Bridport, Dorset, UK

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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 until 28 Jan at The Auction Collective

Forthcoming: Life on Venus III

Forthcoming: Return of the Natives, 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

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Residencies and prizes

2020

Zaratan AIR, Lisbon, Portugal

2019

Shortlisted for the Kevin Slingsby Prize

Draw International Artist-in-Residence, Caylus, France