About
Kiera-Grace is a British artist whose work explores memory and the ways it is shaped through cultural transmission, the body and archival traces. Drawing on the unreliable and sentimental nature of recollection, she creates layered compositions that emulate the distortions and residues of remembering, often allowing fragments of image , texture and gesture to drift between clarity and obscurity. Her practice is rooted in how stories are inherited, retold and carried through both personal and collective experience.
Kiera-Grace employs oil paint, acrylic, collage, image transfer and material imprints to build surfaces where narrative and movement accumulate over time. Distortion, layering and repetition recur throughout her work; reflecting the qualities of memory itself. Working through a personal yet culturally resonant lens, she investigates how identity can be formed through archives, everyday life and embodied remembrance. Her works frequently hold a quiet tension between nostalgia and progression, challenging how we can acknowledge histories without becoming fixed to them. Through these processes, her work reflects on resilience, visibility and the possibility of carrying memory forward while continuing to live with pride and agency in the present, fundamentally exploring: Now that we know, how do we live?
Artist CV:
Kiera-Grace
b. 2002, London
Lives and works in London
Education:
2020-2024: BA Art and Psychology, university of Reading (with inclusive Year of fine art studies at University of Nicosia, Cyprus)
Selected exhibitions:
Conditions Studio group show, Croydon, 2026
Basel Art Summer Camp, Switzerland, 2025
How Do We Reconcile? -RRoWM, Copeland Gallery, London, 2024
โPecknamโ - Peckham festival exhibition, Copeland Gallery, 2024
โMixtapeโ Reading School of Art Degree Show, Reading, 2024
Residencies:
2024-2026: Conditions Studio Programme
2024: Palace of the Dogs, Peckham Festival residency
Press:
Strange Place Gallery: https://www.strangeplacegallery.com/kiera-grace
Subject Matters show: https://artreading.org/2025/12/05/subject-matters/
Degree show: https://mixtape2024rsa.co.uk/