CHATTELS Paul Grellier & Nick Grellier 2022 Photo Hatty Frances Bell
I am a UK based visual artist using detritus found on roads and footpaths as source material, and papers, photographs and textiles from house clearances and family archives as substrates for my work. Employing simple methods and low value materials, the works speak to ideas about hierarchies in art and life and awkwardly funny commonplace scenarios. The simultaneous familiarity and strangeness of found objects and materials, the inherent information held within them and the push-pull relationship between humans and stuff, examined in my works, offer a deadpan reflection on behaviours and responses to the tragicomic state of being human.
I also work collaboratively with Emily Lucas as (both laughing) and with film maker Anna Cady and curate exhibitions and installations.
born Toronto, Canada 1966
UWE Bristol MA Fine Art 2017-20
Chelsea School of Art BA Hons Fine Art 1985-88
Wimbledon School of Art foundation diploma 1983-84
(both laughing) collaborative
Associate Artist Bricks Bristol
Spike Associates Bristol
Stroud Illustration Collective (S I C)
2024
DRAWING THE NIGHT IN Young Gallery Salisbury, curated by Susan Francis & Prudence Maltby open from October 24
REUSE, REINVENT Victoria Works Chalford curated by Charlotte Abrahams SITE FESTIVAL 8/9 15/16 June
TRINITY BUOY WHARF DRAWING PRIZE 2023 touring exhibition The Gallery at the Arts University Bournemouth 2 February to 16 April; The Arts Institute, Plymouth University, 4 May to 29 June;Turnpike, Wigan, 13 July to 14 September ..
RICHARD multi-projection installation Chapels of Rest Stroud, Stroud Film Festival March 16/17 2024
A ROOM OF ONE’S OWN Irving Gallery, Oxford March 2 - April 5
FILM POSTERS REINTERPRETED SIC Museum in the Park Stroud Feb 9 - March 17 & Lansdown Gallery Stroud Feb 28 - March 5 2024
6th JOHN RUSKIN PRIZE Trinity Buoy Wharf Feb 1-17 2024
INSERT ART HERE Lansdown Gallery Stroud Feb 3 -10 2024
2023
ARC Salon Painswick Sept
RWA 170th OPEN RWA Bristol Sept 2023 - Jan 2024
TRINITY BUOY WHARF DRAWING PRIZE 2023 Trinity Buoy Wharf and touring UK Sept 2023 - July 2024
PROTEST POSTERS (both laughing) Collaborative SVA John Street Gallery Stroud Sept
WELLS ART CONTEMPORARY Wells Cathedral Aug - Sept
Artist Curator ‘houseworkwork’ at SITE FESTIVAL (both laughing) Collaborative 9 Church Street Stroud June
OPEN_OPEN Chapel Arts Studios Andover May - June
Artist Curator MY BODY IN MY HANDS exhibition SVA John Street Gallery Stroud May
SFSA DRAWING OPEN 2023 no format gallery London May
SALON FOR A SPECULATIVE FUTURE -’How to be in the future’ WOMEN ARTISTS’ PRINT PORTFOLIO EXHIBITION Publication Launch and Portfolio Exhibition (both laughing) Collaborative MOCA London March
CREATURE FEATURES Film Posters Re-interpreted Lansdown Gallery Stroud and Museum in the Park Stroud curated by Mark Levy and Imogen Harvey-Lewis Feb - April
SWEAR IT ON A DUSTER The Duster Project and Profanity Embroidery Group Twelve Tap Gin Bar Whitstable Kent and HOLD Ramsgate Feb - March
2022
SMALL FRAMES RO Frames Stroud curated by Sacred Thing Barnie Page Dec
SALON FOR A SPECULATIVE FUTURE - WOMEN ARTISTS’ PRINT PORTFOLIO EXHIBITION / IMPACT 12 Multidisciplinary Printmaking Conference (both laughing) Collaborative UWE Library, Bower Ashton, Bristol Sept - Oct
CHATTELS Moveable Objects Chapels of Rest Stroud with Paul Grellier Sept
FREE RANGE London UWE Alumni Exhibition Truman Brewery Brick Lane London June
WORDplay Fringe Arts Bath May - June
SFSA Drawing Open 2022 no format Gallery Deptford London May
A ROOM OF HER OWN Irving contemporary Oxford March - April
THE OUTPOSTED EXHIBITION Three Stories Nailsworth March
WORKS ON PAPER 4 Blue Shop Cottage, London April - August
SPacejUNK drawing project exhibition (solo) SVA John Street Gallery Stroud Jan
2021
NOWHERE SOMETIME online @consciousisolation curated in collaboration with University Of Gloucestershire students
2020
HUMANISING MEDICINE ‘Covid19-Apart But Together’ BEING HUMAN FESTIVAL 2020 Queen Mary University of London Nov
TODAY 366 drawings (solo) SVA John Street Gallery Stroud October
TRINITY BUOY WHARF DRAWING PRIZE 2020 Trowbridge, Dundee, London, Bournemouth www.trinitybuoywharfdrawingprize.drawingprojects.uk October 2020-Spring 2021
EAT, SLEEP, (I CAN’T) BREATHE www.vacantmuseum.com July
THE OUTPOSTED PROJECT www.theoutpostedproject.com summer/autumn
GOOD ON PAPER COVERS EXHIBITION Stroud Brewery Feb
2019
MERCATUS LIBER – VENICE VENDING MACHINE Venice Agendas Hamilton House Bristol Nov
HUMANISING MEDICINE – ‘this time it’s personal’ BEING HUMAN FESTIVAL Bart’s Pathology Museum London Nov
RWA 167 OPEN RWA Bristol
FOAM MA Interim Centrespace Bristol May
80’S FILM POSTERS RE-INTERPRETED Stroud Film Festival SVA John St Gallery Stroud
INCENDIARY SVA & Lansdown Galleries Stroud & Hardwick Campus University of Glos curated by Patricia Brien Feb
GOOD ON PAPER PARTY vol IV Centre For Science and Art Stroud Jan
2018
EVERYONE IS VERY HAPPY AND NOT CONFUSED MA Interim Hamilton House Bristol
LYNN PAINTER STAINERS Mall Galleries London
ART WOMEN AND THE EVOLUTION The Bloomsbury London
2017
RWA 165 Open RWA Bristol
FUTURE GIANTS (solo) The Malthouse for Select Festival Stroud
2016
JERWOOD DRAWING PRIZE London, Bath, Leigh, Bournemouth
ING Discerning Eye Mall Galleries London
BLACKSWAN OPEN Frome Somerset
talks, conferences, events, residencies, reviews
WHAT IS DRAWING RESEARCH? Symposium & exhibition (both laughing) Collaborative UWE BCU Drawing Research Group Birmingham School of Art Nov 2023
PROOF! (both laughing) Collaborative Postgraduate Research Conference UWE Bristol June 2023
(both laughing) Collaborative residency At The Garage March 2022 and Jan 2023
LOCKDOWN 1 Drawing Symposium Pecha Kucha online Drawing is Free / Drawing Projects UK Feb 2022
“Making Their Mark. Why artists draw: an interrogation of drawing as a subjective, autobiographical and emotional act” with Emily Lucas PhD research project 2020
www.a-n.co.uk/reviews/today/ review of TODAY drawings exhibition Artists Newsletter Trevor H Smith 2020
www.studiointernational.com/index.php/trinity-buoy-wharf-drawing-prize-2020-review-cooper-gallery-university-of-dundee-scotland 2020
“A Slight Increase In Happiness : a discussion on constructive thinking via a year of drawing” Bricks Bristol artist talk Jan 2020
“Bad Drawing : intentions for, and status of drawing” artist talk 2020
“Mighty Pencil : drawing and language, the funny and the sad” artist talk 2020
SELECT TALKS producer Centre for Science and Art Stroud 2017-2019
collections
Works held in Tate Archives, RA Print Collection, Gloucestershire Archives, ARC Salon.