Oona Grimes RA Elect (b. 1957)

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Oona Grimes is a London based artist working with drawing, clay making & film. These disciplines - on one hand, flattist collage, print and painting, and on the other, sculptural objects and filmed performance - combine to create an alternative and highly personal world.

Her non-linear library of narratives testifies to an obsession with language - the beginnings & ends of it, learning & losing it, slippage & misinterpretation. Her cast of characters features those who have fallen through the cracks - the unseen and the unlovely. The fuzzy felt drawings wrap violent lives in Commedia del arte slapstick & comic strip.

During Grimes’ 2018 Bridget Riley Fellowship at The British School at Rome she segued from thieving Lorenzetti tartans and cartoon detail from Etruscan paintings, to the appropriation of Neorealist cinema. By means of mis-remembered re-enactments, she physically draws herself into the film frame.

She graduated from Norwich School of Art with a BA in 1986 & The Slade School of Fine Art 1988. She was a Bridget Riley Fellow at the British School at Rome 2018 & was awarded the Bryan Robertson Award in 2022. Grimes has taught widely at key colleges and universities. She was recently an Associate Lecturer at the Royal College of Art, Ruskin School of Art Oxford University & University of the Arts.

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Royal Academician

Printmaker

Born: 1957 in London

Nationality: British

Elected RA: 14 December 2023

Gender: Female

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