BIO:

GRACE CRABTREE (Dorset, UK) recently graduated from the Ruskin School of Art, Oxford (2016-19). Grace's artistic practice focuses on traditional painting technics, weavee with contemporary culture, drawing from a continued exploration of contemporary re-engagements with the mural form. This is examined both in terms of its decline in public spaces in recent years, and with it the loss of the collective, public viewership and dialogue; and in terms of the mural’s connection to the miniature and the scroll, which has the potential to evoke intimate, sacred spaces of encounter. The paintings’ materiality is emphasized through the traditional technique of egg tempera, which involves grinding pigments and layering colour. This slow time of making feeds into the creation of fictional interior spaces of ambiguous time, a muddle of past and present.

PROJECT:

Grace Crabtree explores figurative painting that shifts between historical and contemporary reference points, drawing from the traditions of fresco and icon painting, and from contemporary culture. By playing with form and narrative structure in fragmentary or non-chronological ways, her paintings allow for the viewer’s sense of time to be disrupted or dissolved.
The work created at Zaratan falls between painting and drawing, investigating a fragmentary approach to narrative time and space, in works that evoke elements of the fresco or the miniature. The faces, patterns, and street corners of Double Time explore a state of doubling, which is to be duplicitous, or literally to be twofold. References and allusions lie between the folds, multiplying the possible narrative readings.

PUBLIC PRESENTATION:

OPEN STUDIO, GRACE CRABTREE, "Double Time"
26 February 19H /// OPENING | February 26 at 7pm
27-28 de February 2020, 16h to 20h

ARTISTS TALK: Grace Crabtree + Heather Lyon
7 February, 18h00