• Born 1984, Leeds, UK

    Lives and works in London, UK

    EDUCATION
    2010-2011
    MA Fine Art, Wimbledon College of Art, University of the Arts London
    2004-2007
    BA (Hons) Fine Art, Cardiff School of Art and Design, University of Wales Institute in Cardiff
    2003-2004
    Foundation Diploma in Art and Design, Leeds College of Art and Design
  • SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

    2024-26
    Patterns Through Time, St John's Churchyard, Leeds, UK
    2022-23
    Illuminated from Within, Grundy Art Gallery, Blackpool, UK
    2022
    Radiant Auras, SUMMER x The Eye Sees, Lyon, France
    2022
    Capturing Light, Foundry Gallery, London, UK
    2021
    Connection Points, The Art Station, Saxmundham, UK
    2019
    LUX, The Eye Sees, Arles, France
    2019
    Spectra Waves, Brighton CCA, University of Brighton, Brighton, UK
    2018
    Kaleidoscope, Broadgate, London, UK
    2018
    Cross Sections, Glass Cloud Gallery, Camden People's Theatre, London, UK
    2018
    Shadow Play, Chapter Gallery Art in the Bar, Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff, UK
    2017
    Light Shifts, The Tin part of Coventry Biennial, Coventry, UK
    2017
    Fractured Visions, St Marys in the Castle, Hastings, UK
    2017
    The Movements, Adhoc, Bochum, Germany
    2016
    Rendered Invisible, The Art House, Wakefield, UK
    2015
    Tempered Deflections, Footfall Art, London, UK
    2014
    Fields of Light, Barbican Arts Trust, London, UK
  • SELECTED COMMISSIONS

    2024
    Pastilles and Coloured Droplets / Gouttelettes Colorées, L'Hôpital National des 15-20, Paris, France
    2024
    Polygon Shuffle, Glenvale Park Primary School, Wellingborough, UK; commissioned by Midtown Capital with the support of NN Contemporary
    2024
    Rounding the Corner, Vincent Square Eating Disorder Unit, Chelsea, London, UK; commissioned by Nightingale Projects for NHS for Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust
    2024
    Patterns Through Time, St John's Churchyard, Leeds, UK; commissioned by Leeds City Council in partnership with Historic England and the Diocese of Leeds
    2024
    River of Hope, Education Project with 10 schools in Newham, London, UK; commisioned by Thames Festival Trust with support from the British Council
    2023
    Sun-Kissed, Wembley Park Arts Trail; commissioned by Acrylicize and Wembley Park
    2023
    Barbican Confetti, City of London School for Girls, Barbican Estate London; commissioned by the City of London School for Girls
    2022
    Radiant Auras, SUMMER, Lyon, France; commissioned by The Eye Sees More
    2022 
    Triangulations, Guys Hospital Teenage and Young Adults Cancer Ward, London, UK; commissioned by Guy's and St Thomas' Arts NHS Foundation Trust
    2022
    Ripple Effect, St Charles Centre for Health and Well-Being, London, UK; commissioned by Nightingale Projects for Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust
    2021
    Pedestrian Crossing, Pitzhanger Manor and Gallery, London, UK
    2021
    Waves of Light, St Charles Centre for Health and Well-Being, London, UK; commissioned by Nightingale Projects for Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust
    2021
    Kaleidoscopic Prisms, Jubilee Place, Canary Wharf Group PLC, London, UK
    2021
    Meeting Points, The Ridings Centre, Wakefield, UK; commissioned by Art Walk Wakefield
    2020
    Art Deco Paradise, Kensington High Street, London, UK; commissioned by Kensington and Chelsea Council for High Street Windows initiative
    2020
    London Style, Nishura East Headquarters, London, UK
    2020
    Shatterproof, Kings Road, London, UK; commissioned by Kensington and Chelsea Art Week
    2019
    A Glimpse of the East, Watts Gallery Artists' Village, nr Guildford, UK
    2019
    Encased Light, ITV Creates - Week 16, aired nationally on ITV Channel UK
    2019
    Heal's Tottenham Court Road, London, UK; as part of 'Designs that stick' campaign
    2018
    Twister, Haru Showroom, London, UK
    2017
    Natural Triangulations, Walthamstow Wetlands Visitor Centre, London, UK; commissioned by Waltham Forest Council
    2016
    Count the Hours, Scarborough Old Town Prison, Scarborough, UK; commissioned for the 'Prison Drawing Project'
    2015
    Sunrise Shuffle, Jealous Gallery, London, UK; commissioned for Jealous Rooftop Project
    2014
    Parallax, Beacons Music and Arts Festival, Yorkshire Dales, UK
    2013
    Illumination III, Leeds Town Hall, Leeds, UK; commissioned for Leeds Light Night
    2012
    A Field of Light, Deptford Rail Station, London, UK; commissioned by Deptford X Festival
  • SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

    2024
    Anonymous Drawings, Kunstraum Kreuzberg, Berlin, Germany
    2024
    Eye Candy, Rabbet Gallery, London, UK
    2024
    Drawing Biennial, Drawing Room, London, UK
    2024
    Colour From Life, First White Cloth Hall, Leeds, UK
    2024
    Art on a Postcard, The Bomb Factory, London, UK
    2023
    Making Connections, The Old Waiting Room, London, UK
    2023
    Definitions of Drawing II, Sunny Bank Mills Gallery, Farsley, West Yorkshire, UK, curated by Courtney Spencer
    2023
    Equilibrium: Spring Arts Trail, Arena Square, Wembley Park, London, UK
    2023
    Side Step, SET Gallery, London, UK
    2023
    Inside a Rainbow: Annual Schools Exhibition, Grundy Art Gallery, Blackpool, UK (Lead Artist)
    2023
    Cure3 Exhibition organised by Artwise Curators, Bonhams, London, UK
    2022-23
    An Exhibition of Small Things with Big Ideas, White Conduit Projects, London, UK
    2022-23
    Front Page, Long Sharp Gallery, Indianapolis, USA
    2022
    Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair, The Fireworks Factory, London, UK
    2022
    40 Years of South Square, South Square Gallery, Thornton, West Yorkshire, UK
    2022
    AORA VI: Light, AORA Gallery, online
    2022
    Rough or Smooth, Coles Gallery, UK
    2021
    Recreational Grounds, The Factory Project, Thames-side Industrial Estate, London, UK
    2021
    Pulp, The Florence Trust, London, UK
    2021
    Close to Home, JGM Gallery, London, UK
    2021
    Cloud Nine, Grey Space Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
    2021
    Recreational Grounds: Off-Site, Thames-side Gallery, London, UK
    2021
    Drawing Biennial, Drawing Room, London, UK
    2021
    Drawing Biennial, Cromwell Place, London, UK
    2021
    The Unfolding Terrace, Passengers, Brunswick Centre, London, UK
    2021
    The Waiting Place, The Art Station, Saxmundham, Suffolk, UK
    2020
    MERRY-GO-ROUND, JGM Gallery, London, UK
    2020
    Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair, online
    2020
    Cure3 Exhibition, organised by Artwise Curators, Bonhams, London, UK
    2020
    Abstract Colour, JGM Gallery, London, UK, online
    2020
    MK Calling, MK Gallery, Milton Keynes, UK
    2020
    London Art Fair, Eagle Gallery Stand, Business Design Centre, London, UK
    2019-20
    Push and Pull, Circus Gallery, London, UK
    2019
    Creekside Open, APT Gallery, London, UK
    2019
    One of One, 163 Gallery, London, UK, curated by After Projects,
    2019
    Drawing Biennial, Drawing Room, London, UK
    2019
    London Art Fair, Flowers Gallery Stand, Business Design Centre, London, UK
    2018
    Small is Beautiful, Flowers Gallery, London, UK
    2018
    Matérias Primas, PADA Gallery, Barriero, Lisbon, Portugal
    2018
    Defining Structure, Cello Factory, London, UK
    2018
    Dialogues: Fiona Grady, Tess Jaray, Bridget Riley and Carol Robertson, Flowers Gallery, London, UK
    2018
    Dentons Art Prize, Dentons, London, UK
    2018
    Shapes: Fiona Grady + Stephen Jacques, ArtMoorHouse, Cannon Place, London, UK
    2018
    Do Re Mi Fa So La Ti, Griffin Gallery Perimeter Space, London, UK
    2018
    Light in Plenty, Shadow in Plenty: Yukako Shibata + Fiona Grady, White Conduit Projects, London, UK
    2018
    The Pink Panther Show, Gallery 46, London, UK, curated by Dateagleart and Evangeline Ling
    2018
    Expanding Systems, APT Gallery, London, UK
    2017
    Notes on Painting, Koppel Projects, London, UK
    2017
    A Many Sided Thing, Wimbledon Space, Wimbledon College of Art, London, UK
    2017
    Mono, Flowers Gallery, London, UK
    2017
    Colour, Order, System, Sid Motion Gallery, London, UK
    2017
    Inside the Shadow, Art House1, London, UK
    2017
    Shaping the Void II, Tannery Arts Project Space, London, UK
    2017
    A5 x n, dalla Rosa Gallery, London, UK
    2016
    Exchange Rates - a Sluice Project hosted by Arte 3 (USA) / Saturation Point (UK), New York, USA
    2016
    Shaping the Void, Bankley Gallery, Manchester, UK
    2016
    STEAM: Ahead, South Square Gallery, Thornton, West Yorkshire, UK
    2016
    The Overview Effect, Lewisham Art House, London, UK
    2016
    Youth Uncovered, Gerald Moore Gallery, London, UK
    2016
    Prison Drawing Project, Scarborough Old Town Prison, Scarborough, UK
    2015
    Beyond Repetition, Bowery Gallery, Leeds, UK
    2015
    Schichtwechsel, APT Gallery, London, UK
    2015
    The Imaginary Museum: Monuments and Landmarks, Leeds City Museum and Leeds University, Leeds, UK
    2015
    Spatial Centres, Projektraum, Am Flutgraben, Berlin, Germany
    2014
    Again, From Here, Harts Lane Gallery, London, UK
    2014
    A Restless Geometry, Union 105 Gallery, East Street Arts, Leeds, UK, curated by The International 3
    2014
    Geometric Sequences, HUSK Gallery, London, UK
    2014
    Neo:print Prize, neo:gallery, Bolton, UK
    2014
    A5, Lubomirov-Easton, Platform Projects, Art Athina Art Fair, Athens, Greece
    2013
    Leeds Light Night, Leeds Town Hall, Leeds, UK
    2013
    APT Open Studios, APT Gallery and Studios, London, UK
    2013
    Bainbridge Open, Embassy Tea Gallery, London, UK
    2013
    The Revolution Will Not Be Televised, ArtLacuna, London, UK
    2013
    Synesthesia, Darnley Gallery, London, UK
    2012
    Deptford X, Deptford Rail Station, London, UK - curated by Matthew Cooper
    2011
    Postgraduate Printmaking in London, Clifford Chance Gallery, London, UK, curated by Nigel Frank and Jane Hindley
    2011
    Print & Design Now!, SW1 Gallery and BEARSPACE, London, UK
    2011
    MA Degree Show, Wimbledon College of Art, UAL, London, UK
    2011
    Students, Patients, Paupers, St Philips, London School of Economics, London, UK
    2011
    Fly Tipping, The Centre for Drawing, London, UK
    2011
    Unexpected / Unexplained, Acquire Arts, London, UK
    2011
    Futura Oblique, The Nunnery Gallery, London, UK
    2010
    Salad, Wimbledon College of Art, London, UK
    2010
    A Library of Mirrors, Bookartbookshop, London, UK
    2008
    Ex, Leeds College of Art and Design, Leeds, UK
    2008
    UWIC Printmakers, The Millennium Centre, Cardiff, UK
    2008
    UWIC Degree Show, Cardiff School of Art and Design, Cardiff, UK
    2008
    Contemporary Printmaking, The Old Library, Cardiff, UK
  • RESIDENCIES AND AWARDS

    2024
    Retina Residency, Paris, France
    2023
    Developing Your Creative Practice Grant awarded by Arts Council England
    2022
    Time Space Money Bursary award by a-n
    2021
    National Lottery Project Grant awarded by Arts Council England
    2021
    Being in Architecture, Artist in Residence at Passengers, London, UK
    2020
    Arts Council England Emergency Funding Grant
    2019
    Mark Rothko Memorial Trust, bursary and residency at the Mark Rothko Foundation, Daugavpils, Latvia
    2018
    Artist in Residence at PADA, Barreiro, Lisbon, Portugal
    2018
    Griffin Gallery collaborative residency with Charley Peters, London, UK
    2017
    Drawing Connections collaborative residency at Wimbledon College of Art, London, UK
    2016
    Artist in Residence at The Art House, Wakefield, UK
    2014
    Artist in Residence at Beacons Music and Arts Festival, Yorkshire Dales, UK
  • COLLECTIONS

    Bagri Foundation
    Canary Wharf Group PLC
    Guerrini-Maraldi Collection
    Linklaters Collection
    Oakdale Centre Collection
    Paul Smith Ltd
    Tim Sayer Collection (bequethed to Hepworth Wakefield)
    Various private collections in across Europe, North America and New Zealand