About
Above: 'Drop, Off' installed at The Royal Society of Sculptors Summer Show, 2022.
CV: Ever Grainger MRSS
Elected Member of The Royal Society of Sculptors
Selected Exhibitions:
2022, Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition, London
2022, Royal Society of Sculptors, Summer Show, Cromwell Place, London
2022, Wells Art Contemporary, Wells Cathedral, Somerset
2022, Royal West of England Academy Annual Open, Bristol
2019-2022, works for ‘Ever Garden’ gallery/museum/sculpture garden, Isle of Wight
2018, ‘Building’, with Lisa Traxler, Sculpture Network, Bunker Gallery, Ventnor
2018, ‘Nonsense’, Ventnor Central Hall, Ventnor
2017, ‘Shifting Light’, installation, Yarmouth Gallery, Yarmouth
2017, ‘Cairns’ flash installations, Freshwater Bay and Compton Beach, Isle of Wight
2016, ‘Pair Shaped Show’ self-curated group show, home studio-shed, Freshwater
2016, 'Plinth People' collaboration with Paradox Paul, home studio-garden, Freshwater
2015, ‘Belief’, Foal Arts, Ryde, Isle of Wight
2015, ‘Blancmange by Day, Jelly by Night’, installation, Freshwater Bay caves
2012, ‘Is That It’, Phoenix Gallery, Brighton Photo Biennial Fringe
2012, ‘Bohemian Eight’, (residency solo) Julia Margaret Cameron Trust, Isle of Wight
2012, ‘The World in London’, The Photographers Gallery, London
2011, ‘Print Now’, Bearspace, London
2011, ‘Nine Point Perspective’, Hotshoe Gallery, London
2011, ‘Close Your Eyes and Tell Me What You See’, Gothenburg Museum of Art, Sweden
2011, ‘Within a Mile’, Fitzrovia Photography Prize, Diemar Noble Photography, London
2011, 'Second Nature' Crane Kalman, Brighton
2010, 'Nature Rewritten', Wieden + Kennedy, Jotta Contemporary, London
2010, ‘Re: Landscape’, Viewfinder Gallery, London
2010, 'Summer in the City', The Little Black Gallery, London
2009, MA exhibition, LCC, University of the Arts, London
2008, ‘Spectre’, Brighton Media Centre, Brighton Photo Biennial Fringe
2006, ‘Unravelling Photography’, Quay Arts Centre, Newport
2005, ‘Living Rooms’, (residency solo), ESC Gallery/Cultural City Network, Graz
2005, ‘Urbanbodies’, Occupy my Time, 27 Brick Lane, Whitechapel, London
2005, ‘Last Chickens of Sainsburys’, Glasgow International Art Festival
2004, ‘Curious’, Occupy my Time, Shoreditch Town Hall, London
2004, ‘Imprint of The Orient/The West’, Gallery Works, Osaka, Japan
2004, ‘The Turner Prize Show’, Space Banana, Birmingham
2004, ‘Now You’ve Seen It’, (residency solo), New Art Gallery Walsall
2003, ‘New Contemporaries’, Manchester Cornerhouse & Victoria Miro, London
Prizes/Awards:
2022, Winner Pangolin Digital Sculpture Prize
2011, Finalist, Diemar Noble Fitrovia Photography Prize
2010, Selected, MA Star, Axis Artists
2005-2010, Arts Council and Heritage Lottery funding awards
2003, Selected Bloomberg New Contemporaries
Public Collections:
National Science & Media Museum, Bradford
University of the Arts, London
Education:
2009, MA Photography, (Fine Art) LCC, University of the Arts London
2003, BA(Hons) Fine Art, Birmingham Institute of Art and Design, University of Central England
Other:
Born: 1966, Liverpool, UK.
Name pronunciation: as in ‘Ever since then’ (name adopted 2020).
Pronouns: she/her or they/them.