Grace Steinberg – portfolio

Contact the artist

07803 335862
grace.steinberg@lmh.ox.ac.uk

Grace’s work will be exhibited at Rona’s Painting Gallery in Jericho during ArtsWeeks. 

Exhibition information

Grace’s work is shaped by a sustained enquiry into sensation, interiority and the question: how can sensing, or feeling, can become visible? Her practice moves thoughtfully between painting, writing and installation, of which she blurs the boundaries between, as her large paintings often engulf the viewer, mimicking an installation, and she likes to think of words as a spatial installation in the mind.

Grace enjoys embedding contemplative paradoxes in her work, carrying darker qualities that complicate their seemingly-calm surfaces. Central to Grace’s enquiry is the relationship between skin, sensation and the internal awareness of the body, visually investigating the distinction between introspection and interoception. Grace engages with biological and sensory research which informs and expands the visual language of her painting. She has a fixation with the lone contemplative figure whose skin, muscles and body are almost radioactive when viewed through Grace’s lens.

Grace believes artwork should not end at representation, it should continue inside of us, touching and exploring the memory of our bodily proprioception, and be a sensation inside of us that words cannot fully articulate.

What distinguishes Grace’s work is the sensorial realism that differs from conventional hyperrealism in painting. Her interest in abstract illusionism and the solitary figure opens a contemplative space where sensation, perception and quiet observation become the central subject matter.

Artist information

Grace Steinberg is currently in her second year of studying Fine Art at Oxford University’s Ruskin School of Art, following her Art Foundation at Central Saint Martins. Grace has exhibited her work in several exhibitions across London and Oxford, including the Royal Academy of Arts Young Artist’s Summer Show.