ELAINE GRAINGER | CV | 2024
EDUCATION
2016 – 18 Masters in Fine Art, NCAD.
2013 Painting and Visual Research Methods CEAD, NCAD.
EXHIBITIONS AND PERFORMANCE
2023 HOLDING ON Lightly curated by Julia Moustacchi at The LAB Gallery, Dublin
2023 You observe I observed project with Moa Gustafsson Söndergaard at Juxtapose Art Fair, Denmark
2022 undone A collaborative project with Moa Gustafsson Söndergaard at Körpasstradir Gallery Reykjavik
2021 Visible Island between low tide and sunset, Howth, Dublin
2021 Wall art on Lennox St, curated by Bob Grey, Dublin
2021. Ark Life (online) exhibition/auction Pallas Projects, Dublin
2021. In Between Site // Non Site (online) in conjunction with Limits of my language, Kilkenny Arts Office
2021 Limits of my Language curated by Rachel Botha for Kilkenny Arts Office Gallery
2020. Things that blew in, Industrial Zone Barreiro, Portugal
2020 Not yet, no PADA Gallery, PADA Studios and Residency, Barreiro, Portugal
2020 Stories from Lismore and Beyond, Lismore Castle Arts, Lismore, Co. Waterford
2020 Highlanes Gallery, Open Submission 2020 Exhibition, Highlanes Gallery, Drogheda
2020 Games for Artists and Non Artists workshops and exhibition curated by Brendan Fox, IMMA
2019 Solo Exhibition, The Gap Between Noise, The Complex, Dublin December 2019
2019 The Possibilities of Place, performance, with Julia Moustacchi Temple Bar Gallery & Studios, Studio6
2019 The Possibilities of Place, performance with Julia Moustacchi, Centre Cultural Irlandais, Paris
2019 Finissage: Burning the Bush ‘Cultural think tank,’ Centre Cultural Irlandais, Paris
2019 RHA 189THAnnual Exhibition, RHA
2019 Irish Art Now, Contemporary Art Auction Pallas Project Studios, City Assembly House
2019 Sirens, group performance by Celina Muldoon, Pallas Project Studios
2018 Floats in the Aether group performance by Amanda Coogan, National Gallery of Ireland
2018 Rua Red, Winter Open Exhibition, Dublin
2018 RDS Visual Arts Awards Exhibition, RDS
2018 MFA Graduate Exhibition, NCAD, Dublin
2017 Untitled, live installation/group performance by Celina Muldoon, curated by Roisin Bohan, TBG/S
2017 Time is not a line Elaine Grainger & Michele Hetherington Pallas Project Studios
2017 MFA Interim Exhibition, Eblana House, Dublin
2017 peripheriesOPEN, Gorey School of Art
2017 RHA Annual Exhibition
2017 Detached Solstice Arts Centre, Navan
AWARDS
Culture Ireland International exhibition support 2023
Fingal County Council International exhibition Support 2023
Arts Council Visual Arts Bursary Award 2022
Recipient Fingal County Council Artists’ Support Scheme 2022
Arts Council Agility Award 2021
Recipient Fingal County Council Artists’ Support Scheme 2021
Arts Council Professional Development Award 2020/2021
Highly Commended Award, Janet Mullarney Prize, Highlanes Gallery Open Submission 2020
Winner of the RDS Visual Arts, Centre Culturel Irlandais Residency Award, 2019
RHA Peer Residency Award, 2019
Recipient Fingal County Council Artists’ Support Scheme 2019
COLLECTIONS
The Office of Public Works (O.P.W) private collections in Ireland, U.K and Australia
RELATED EXPERIENCE AND PROJECTS
2024 Selected for SAIKONEON Residency, Mount Fuji, Japan
2022 Selected for SIM Residency, Iceland
2020 Selected for PADA Studio Residency, Lisbon Portugal
2020 Utraviolet Art Talks Season 2, May
2020 Plinth Politics RHA Talk Series, February
2019 Selected Bloomers ‘Out of Body’ Issue 4, Magazine,October
2018 RHA Painters Talking Painting II with Marc Guinan, Glenn Fitzgerald, Jules Michael & Elaine Grainger
2017 Selected for the Apprentice Master, Kunstodium T
2016 Curator at VAI Speed Curating IMMA
2016 Selector for Critics Choice Award, Foundation Arts Festival, Tullamore, Co. Offaly
2015 Established MONTO Arts Group with Artbox, Oonagh Young Gallery The Lab & Fire Station Artist Studios
2015 Curator at VAI Speed Curating IMMA
2014 Speaker at VAI Artist Development workshop Roscommon
2014 Speaker at VAI Artist Development workshop Meath