Bio

Carrie Grainger is a contemporary artist, film maker and researcher, she was born in October 1991 in Ascot, Berkshire and is currently based near Reading, Uk.


Education

MA in Fine Art (2017) Bath Spa University

BA Hons in Fine Art (2014) University of the Creative Arts, Farnham.



Artist Statement

 Grainger’s practice explores different cultural superstitions, folklores, symbolisms and spectral traces through multiple forms such as mask making, sculpture, drawing and film.
Grainger draws from historic events, myths and narratives largely connected to landscape. She commonly engages with themes surrounding mysticism, concealed societies and animism. Grainger engages with the concept that landscapes and dwellings are haunted by the remains of their past such as hearsays, memories and experience and explores how this notion can be engaged with and illuminated through arts practice. Grainger is interested in the concept of place as a vessel that can be unearthed through storytelling and visual symbolism.


Current or upcoming Exhibitions



Past Exhibitions

2025, We are the witches 11, House Of Smalls Gallery, Edinburgh.

2025, Phantasmagoria (2), Liverpool Hope university, Liverpool.

2024, Wyrding, BACKLIT Gallery, Alfred house, Nottingham.

2024, Braziers International Short Film Festival, Braziers Park, Oxfordshire.
In collaboration with Reading based Film maker Matt Hulse.

2024, Phantasmagoria, Tension Fine Art Gallery, Penge, London.

2024, Extempore 24, Tension Fine Art Gallery, Penge, London.

2023, We are the witches, The house of Smalls, Chippen Campden, Gloucestershire.

2023, Dazzling Demons, Phantasmal Gallery, Online exhibition.

2023, Spaces: Marks: Things, Safe House 2, Peckham, London.

2023, Doll, The house of Smalls, Chippen Campden, Gloucestershire.

2023, Threaded, Fringe Arts Bath, Newark Works, Bath.

2021, Roots: Transplanted, Center for the visual arts, Wisconsin, US.

2021, FLUX Exhibition, The Truman Brewery, London. Online Exhibition.

2020, Isolation, Marvelous Art Gallery, Online Exhibition.

2020, Happenings, Fringe Arts Bath, Online Exhibition.

​2019, All Hallow Tide, The Portsmouth Art Space, Portsmouth.

2019, The immaculate Dream, Collyer Bristow Gallery, Holborn, London.

2019, FAB Bath Open Art Prize, 44AD Gallery, Bath.

2019, Dream states, Hoxton Cabin, Hackney, London.

2019, Bloomberg New Contemporaries, South London Gallery, London.

2018, Bloomberg New Contemporaries, John Lennon Building, Liverpool.

2017, MA Show, Bath Spa University, Bath. 

2017, Someplace, Centrespace Gallery, Bristol. 

2017, Zeitheist: Bath Fringe Arts, Milsom Place Gallery, Bath.

2017, The Future Cant wait, The Black Swan Gallery, Frome.

2017, Walcot Chapel residency, Walcot street, Bath.

2016, Exposed, Ben Oakly Gallery, Turnpin Lane, London.

2016, Chelsea Fringe Festival, Oxford House Gallery, London.

​2015, Beyond, Light and speed, The Strand Gallery, London.

2015, Beyond, light and speed, The A+D gallery, London.

2014, Help! Savages, Bethnal Green, London.

2014, BA Hons degree show, University of the Creative Arts, Farnham.

2013, The Perfect System, The Arch Gallery, London.

2013, Insect, London Zoo, London.

2013, The Case, University of the Creative Arts, Farnham.

2013, Derivative, Farnham Museum, Farnham.

2012, Liquid Brick, Menier Gallery, London