About
Ever Grainger extrudes, squeezes and squashes silicone sealant to make oozy, cartoony and visceral sculptures that sit somewhere between homewares, body parts and DIY store displays. Working primarily with an everyday construction material, she exploits its capacity to slump, stretch, coil and accumulate, creating objects that can appear simultaneously familiar and strange.
Her practice brings the language of DIY into conversation with the conventions of sculpture and art history. Working by hand with a sealant gun more commonly associated with kitchen and bathroom installation, Grainger explores the shifting balance between control and unpredictability. Gravity, repetition, compression and the behaviour of the material itself become active participants in the making process. The resulting works play with expectations of form, function and finish, finding humour and ambiguity in the tension between what things are and what they appear to be.
Grainger was born in Liverpool and graduated with First Class Honours in Fine Art from Birmingham City University. Following graduation, she was selected for Bloomberg New Contemporaries, exhibiting at Victoria Miro, London and Cornerhouse, Manchester. She subsequently undertook a residency and solo presentation at The New Art Gallery Walsall.
Her work has since been selected for the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, Samples, curated by Plinth at Cromwell Place, London, the ING Discerning Eye exhibition and the Royal Society of Sculptors Summer Exhibition. She is a member of the Royal Society of Sculptors.
Grainger is currently completing an MA in Sculpture at the Royal College of Art, London, with graduation anticipated in summer 2027.
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