About
Grace Hailstone (b. 1988) is a printmaker working between Suffolk and London, UK. 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, while at the same time, these open spaces contain peripheral forms, grounding the viewer, or even making them aware of a constant looming peripheral threat. 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.
Grace has been artist in residence in Skagaströnd, 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 Hepworth, Henry Moore, Paula Rego and Prunella Clough.
Grace is a gallery and museum professional alongside her practice and is currently Archive Curator at the Curwen Print Study Centre.
In 2023 Grace was selected to help launch the new online 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.
Read more about Grace’s work in a short text by Curator Helen Hillyard called ‘Infinite Terrain’ which can be found on the ‘Work’ pages or via the link here.
Projects & Commissions
2022 - Keane - Assisting with tour merchandise design /original print for Forestry Commission tour
2022 - Captain - Cover artwork for new single, ‘High Beams’
2019 - Shakespeare’s Globe, London, Bankside Banner Artwork for Winter Season 2019-2020
Exhibitions
2024 ‘Glimsen' Group show with Hannah Farthing, Rachel Sodey and Molly Wallis. The Craft House Woodbridge, 20 - 26 March
2024 'Colour & Poetry: The Nomenclature of Colours' Slade School of Fine Art, 20-21 March
2023 Bainbridge Print Open, London, 15 - 23 June
2022 Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair, November 2022
Selected by Guest Judge and renowned British Artist Gavin Turk as a highlight: Read about it on Artsy
2021: Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair, London, 11 - 14 Nov
22 Oct 2021: Online Symposium: Iceland. Mobility, Spatiality, Virtuality. Defining new touristic relationships through remote encounters, distant desires and embodied experiences.
2021 East Kent Artist’s Open House, 25 Hengist Avenue, Margate
2021 Colour and Poetry Symposium and Exhibition, Slade School of Fine Art, UCL
2021 Life on Venus: The Human, The Tub Hackney, London
2020 Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair, London, 12 Nov - 13 Dec ONLINE
2020 Eames Fine Art Christmas Online Auction
2020 Life on Venus: Landscape, The Tub Hackney, London, 10 - 13 Dec
2019/ 20 Bankside Banner Artist, Shakespeare's Globe, London
2019 Colour and Poetry, Slade School of Fine Art, UCL
2018 Real Myth, V22 @ The Old Biscuit Factory, Bermondsey, London
2018 Colour and Emotion, UCLH, London, in collaboration with the Slade, UCL
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
2017 Faith, Austin Forum, Hammersmith, London
2016 Half Moon Studio Open Studios, Dulwich Open Doors Festival, London
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
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
2022 Old Jet Artist Residency, Suffolk, UK
2021 NES Artist Residency, Skagastrond, Iceland
Writing
2024 Pressing Matters, Issue 25, Legacy of a Master Printer
2023 Printmaking Today, Issue 126, Collaboration: Archiving Legacy
Projects
2011 Designer, Mapping Wonderland, Underconstruction Theatre, Oxford
Prizes
2015 - Grand Prize Winner, Art Hub Print Open, selected by Anita Klein & Tricia Gillman
Notable Commissions
2019 Bankside Banner Winter Season Artwork Commission, Shakespeare's Globe.
Read the Globe blog post here.
Education
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)