February 6, 2025
My Artist Choice for the winter edition of Studies in Photography is Anselm Kiefer’s The Amfortas Wound. This large scale photographic work is part of the ARTIST ROOMS collection jointly held by TATE and National Galleries of Scotland.
My piece explores the work itself and my use of photography as an experimental foundation to explore landscape and memory.
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August 3, 2024
Frontiers
Painting in Scotland Now
Frontiers: Painting in Scotland Now is now open. A vibrant celebration of the medium of painting, the exhibition places paintings by Royal Scottish Academicians alongside other established practitioners and emerging artists, posing the question: what place remains for painting? Are there new frontiers for painting in Scotland?
Works are available to view and purchase both in the gallery and online.
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Exhibition on view:
3 August – 8 September 2024
Royal Scottish Academy, The Mound
Mon – Sat 10am – 5pm, Sun 12 – 5pm | free entry
Royal Scottish Academy of Art and Architecture
The Mound Edinburgh EH2 2EL royalscottishacademy.org
The RSA is a Registered Scottish Charity No. SC004198
June 8, 2024
In the 2023/24 academic year Audrey Grant has been the University Artist in Residence. Throughout her residency she has interrogated the landscape, uncovering undiscovered aspects of a parkland whose primary function is now as a university institution, but whose landscape contains the echoes of the lives of those who have lived and worked within its boundaries.
Developed over her year-long residency, Memoria considers and responds to the visible and invisible traces left in the landscape of the historic Airthrey Estate through various media: photography, film, paint and sculpture.
Galleries 3, 4 and Courtyard, Pathfoot Building, University of Stirling
Open Mon-Fri, 9am – 5pm until 9 August
More information: https://www.stir.ac.uk/events/23-24/art-collection/memoria-exhibition/
August 30, 2023
Award-winning visual artist Audrey Grant has been appointed as the University of Stirling’s latest Artist-in-Residence.
A native of Grangemouth now living in Edinburgh, Audrey’s drawing, photography and site-specific installation work is underpinned by intellectual ideas derived from, and inspired by, poetry, literature and philosophy.
Joining the University of Stirling for the academic year 2023/24, Audrey will be working closely with the University’s Art Collection and colleagues from across the institution to explore the ancient Airthrey Estate near Bridge of Allan, where the University is located. Continue reading here
May 19, 2023
I’m delighted to have been appointed Artist-in-Residence for 2023-2024 at the University of Stirling based within the Art Collection Department. I will be researching the rich landscape of the ancient Airthrey Estate, where the University is located and working towards an exhibition including site specific works in 2024.
For more information about the Residency visit the University of Stirling website here
January 8, 2023
Pleased to have been awarded the &gallery prize at the Society of Scottish Artists 130th Annual Exhibition in the Upper Galleries of the Royal Scottish Academy. Looking forward to exhibiting with the gallery in the near future.
November 24, 2022
Artist Blog from Arcadia Sculpture Centre October Residency 20
17/10/22 – MONDAY
I arrived, accompanied by my partner to Arcadia Sculpture Centre, near Drymen, the old Drumbeg Farm. Unloaded, unpacked and settled into our cabin in the woods.
I have come here with some ideas – the poems about autumn by Rainer Maria Rilke and inspired by lines from the poem Autumn Day – to build a woodland shelter. Something I have never done before but I want to leave something here in this golden landscape from nature, and that would return to nature.
July 16, 2022
RSA Lower Galleries | Free entry
25 June – 24 July 2022
Daniel Cook | Rachel Duckhouse | Audrey Grant | Hannah Imlach | Frank McElhinney | Tim Sandys | Bruce Shaw | Fenris Wolf and Ragnar Thorfinn
This summer we are pleased to present new bodies of work from eight artists supported by the RSA Residencies for Scotland programme. The various artists presented here have each, independently, investigated the breadth of Scottish landscape – from history to physical topography. Viewed together, they portray a rich picture of our country and the numerous locations at which they have been hosted by our partners.
September 3, 2021
The National Galleries of Scotland have acquired Audrey Grant’s two long durational portraits in charcoal on paper, of the crime writer, radio dramatist and broadcaster Val McDermid. Portrait of Val McDermid I (2017) and Portrait of Val McDermid II (2017-2019) were first exhibited in The Long Look | The Making of a Portrait at the Scottish National Portrait Gallery in 2019.
For full details please follow the link to the National Galleries of Scotland recent acquisitions announcements page here
July 5, 2021
Inscriptions in Arcadia is a series of 12 site-specific artworks situated in the beautiful and protected landscape around the Bothkennar Pools, near Skinflats. Visitors are invited to walk on easily accessible paths through this real landscape with its pine trees and lagoons, its reedbeds and fields, and imagine another – the semi-mythical land of Arcadia. You will encounter artworks created from found and made objects placed within elements of the land’s rich industrial and cultural past. Each artwork highlights the unique historical environment of the area, transformed through inscriptions from classical mythology evoking the Gods, the Underworld and the pastoral.
3rd July – 31st August 2021
Please click on my Instagram to see images of the work
Inscriptions in Arcadia was commissioned by Forth Valley Art Beat. For more information about the commission and the artworks please go to: https://forthvalleyartbeat.com/artcycle-project/
