GRACE SAINT
GRACE SAINT
Grace Saint is a multimedia artist navigating what religion means in the modern world. Their work explores and critiques religious iconography, the practice of confession, sacrifice, redemption and piety. There is also a strong theme of rituals around the life and death cycle that continues throughout their practice. Saint has a particular interest in what a 'religious experience' now looks or feels like to those who are deconstructing their faith and how the modern spiritual pick 'n' mix approach to religion bleeds into worship of fame and excess.
Grace Saint's practice includes performance, sculptural installation, painting, photography, experimental video, and curatorial projects. Their work frequently explores the archetypal and symbolic accounts of ritual in Judeo-Christian religion with a particular interest in ways these echo with traditional cultures and spiritual practices throughout the world. Stylistically their work is influenced by and draws on the powerful iconography of their Catholic upbringing that include heightened sensibility in the use of light and use of iconography associated with the Catholic faith. The artists intention is to use their art to contribute to on-going critique of what constitutes an archetypal, transformative, religious experience within dominant Western religion.
- Kathleen Rogers
Curriculum Vitae
Upcoming:
Curator of Pilgrimage Exhibition at Zero Carbon Guildford
Residency and Exhibition re Caesar's Camp
Current Roles:
2022 Founder of Critters, a crit group for graduates
2022 Curator at ZERO, Zero Carbon Guildford - eg. Communion
2020 Photographer, Videographer & Social Media at KaneFM - eg. NYE, Bimonthly Funk & Soul Nights, RSD at Dance2
2020 Photographer, Videographer & Live Cameras at Jelly Tree Productions - eg. Notting Hill Carnival & Haslemere Fringe Festival
2017 Photographer & Videographer Freelance - eg. Reading Festival, Soundcity Liverpool, Feminine Hi-Fi
Previous Experience:
2023 Assistant to Kate Street in 'Body as Language' workshop, at UCA Farnham
2022 Assistant to Tobin Prinz, at Art Space Portsmouth Open Studios
2020 Co-Founder & Curator at Something Presented Virtual Exhibition
2019 - 2020 Co-Curator at Black Box Project Space, Farnham
2019 Assistant Curator at Asking For It Exhibition, London
2016 - 2018 Co-Founder & Music Journalist at Youth Pleasure
Exhibitions:
2022 Scream of the Butterfly at New House Art Space, Guildford
2022 Communion at ZERO, Guildford
2020 UCA Graduate Show, Virtual Exhibition
2020 Something Presented As Culturally Essential, Virtual Exhibition
2019 Milieu? at James Hockey Gallery, Farnham
2018 Portrait Series at Linear Gallery, Farnham
2017 UCA Graduate Show, Farnham
2017 Print Or Be Damned at Elaine Thomas Gallery, Farnham
Press:
2020 SadGrads
2020 Perpetual Existence
2020 Isolation at Asking For It
2016 Cult Clash Artist of the Week
Education:
2017 - 2020 First Class Bachelor of Arts (Honours) Digital Film & Screen Arts, University for the Creative Arts, Farnham
2016 - 2017 UAL Foundation Diploma in Art and Design, University for the Creative Arts, Farnham