About

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Grace Hailstone is an artist printmaker working between Suffolk and London. Her experimental and predominantly abstract practice centres on an emotional response to landscape rather than any form of literal representation. Drawn to the isolated, dramatic and other worldly landscape of Iceland, Grace’s prints encapsulate contrasting earthly forms and expansive skies. Her work seeks to find calm spaces of contemplation, where we can reflect on our connection to nature and our place within it. Her abstract images are based on lived experience, but through the process of making, end up existing as images situated somewhere between reality and fiction. She allows the materials and elements of chance and unpredictability in printmaking guide her work to its final state.

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Grace has been artist in residence in Skagastrond, Iceland and Old Jet, Suffolk. Grace was mentored by the late Master Printmaker Stanley Jones MBE, who collaborated with many artists at the Curwen Studio for over 50 years, including Barbara Hepwroth, Henry Moore, Paula Rego and Prunella Clough.

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Grace has had a career in Galleries and Museums alongside her practice and is currently Archive Curator at the Curwen Print Study Centre.

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In 2024 Grace was selected to help launch the new Old Jet Gallery, which helps support and nurture emerging artists through the Airspace programme. You can read a piece about Grace’s work by author Louise Millar, view the works for sale and videos of Grace in the studio here.

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Exhibitions

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2024 ‘Glimsen' Group show with Hannah Farthing, Rachel Sodey and Molly Wallis. The Craft House Woodbridge, 20 - 26 March 

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2024 'Colour & Poetry: The Nomenclature of Colours' Slade School of Fine Art, 20-21 March

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2023 Bainbridge Print Open, London, 15 - 23 June 

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2022 Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair, November 

Selected by Guest Judge and renowned Artist Gavin Turk as a highlight: Read about it on Artsy

 

2021: Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair, London, 11 - 14 Nov

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22 Oct 2021: Online Symposium: Iceland. Mobility, Spatiality, Virtuality.  Defining new touristic relationships through remote encounters, distant desires and embodied experiences.

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2021  East Kent Artist's Open House, 25 Hengist Avenue, Margate

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2021 Colour and Poetry Symposium and Exhibition, Slade School of Fine Art, UCL

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2021 Life on Venus: The Human, The Tub Hackney, London

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2020  Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair, London,​ 12 Nov - 13 Dec ONLINE

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2020 Eames Fine Art Christmas Online Secret Bid Auction,  3 - 6 Dec

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2020 Life on Venus: Landscape, The Tub Hackney, London, 10 - 13 Dec

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2019/ 20  Bankside Banner Artist, Shakespeare's Globe, London

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2019 Colour and Poetry, Slade School of Fine Art, UCL

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2018  Real Myth, V22 @ The Old Biscuit Factory, Bermondsey, London

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2018 Colour and Emotion, UCLH, London, in collaboration with the Slade, UCL

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2017  The Essence you Leave, Group Show, Art Hub Gallery, Deptford, London 

 

2017  11th Biennial International Miniature Print Exhibition, Centre for Contemporary Printmaking, CT, USA

 

2017  Proof, Art Hub Gallery, Deptford, London

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2017  Faith, Austin Forum, Hammersmith, London

 

2016  Half Moon Studio Open Studios, Dulwich Open Doors Festival, London

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2016  Slade Print Fair, Slade School of Fine Art, University College London

 

2015  Art Hub Print Open, Creekside, London

 

2014  Fusion Arts Pop Up Exhibition, Fusion Arts, Oxford

 

2014  Hubba Bubba, ArtHub Gallery, Creekside, London

 

2013  Slade Print Fair, Slade School of Fine Art, University College London

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 2013  Fusion Arts Pop Up, Fusion Arts, Oxford

 

2012  Perceptions on Landscape collaboration with Hannah Shepherd, Bar Lane Studios, York

 

2012  A/P (Artist’s Proof), Bar Lane Studios, York

 

2012  Summer Open, Bar Lane Studios, York

 

2011  Mapping Wonderland, installation O3 Gallery, Oxford

 

2011  Drawn Together: Artwork by Dulwich Picture Gallery Staff, Jeannie Avent Gallery, London

 

2009  University of Plymouth Fine Art Degree Show, Royal William Yard, Plymouth

 

2008  Big Mouth, Interim Show, Royal William Yard, Plymouth

 

Residencies

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2022  Old Jet Artist Residency, Suffolk, UK

2021   NES Artist Residency, Skagastrond, Iceland

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Writing

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2024 Pressing Matters, Issue 25, Legacy of a Master Printer

2023 Printmaking Today, Issue 126, Collaboration: Archiving Legacy

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Projects

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​2011  Designer, Mapping Wonderland, Underconstruction Theatre, Oxford

 

2011  Co-Designer, Mummers, Michaelmas & the Empress Matilda, Underconstruction Theatre, Oxford

 

Prizes

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2015 - Grand Prize Winner, Art Hub Print Open, selected by Anita Klein & Tricia Gillman

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Notable Commissions

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2019  Bankside Banner Winter Season Artwork Commission, Shakespeare's Globe

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Education

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2010  MA Paris Studies: History & Culture, University of London Institute in Paris

 

2009  BA (Joint Hons) Fine Art & History of Art, University of Plymouth (1st Class hons)