ARTIST BIO
With many successful exhibitions throughout the island of Ireland and also internationally in the U.K, U.S.A, Philippines and Australia, Grice has consistently challenged traditional arts practices. Often times creating work that evokes both a sense of melancholy and mirth. Blending classical methods with digital new media elements, celebrating extant themes and motifs.Her studio, which has been predominantly based in the west of Ireland has since moved to the midlands. Her practice there continues to engage the wider contemporary arts community with her 2020-2022 exploration into concepts of scientific peculiarities, turmoil, and minutiae.
Aiden Dunne, IRISH TIMES CULTURE
"The exhibit displayed a number of very strong
artists. They included Emma Grice, who used the idea of a motif repeated
indefinitely to create a form or an image quite removed from the
source. Hair, magpies, butterflies and even chicken legs mutate into
intricately patterned forms in her remarkably accomplished drawings,
prints and etchings. It’s striking that the best of the print
work, Grice’s, for example, embraced the strengths of the
medium and also tested its limits."
Bank of Ireland Award Winner
Allied Irish Bank Award Winner
Marshall Hudson Award Winner