Collection: Fiona Grady

(b 1984, United Kingdom. Lives and works in London)

Fiona Grady creates site-responsive drawings on walls; windows and floors using sequences of dispersing geometric shapes. The artworks are spatial systems composed from repeating intervals that expand in proportion or direction. The use of repetition is a means to set in place an unconscious balance or understanding; that can be interrupted by the introduction of a changeable factor. This challenges the viewers reading of the drawing asking them to consider its internal logic. Her practice recognizes the relationship between architecture; installation art and decoration; often using traditional media in a modern context. She plays with light; surface and scale; each piece emphasizing the passing of time and the ephemeral nature of the work. The artworks are imaginings of how light moves throughout a space; however she does not seek to literally map light but instead create rhythms; the blocks of colour act as a vessel that pinpoint the viewers' presence within a particular setting and allows them to contemplate their surroundings. To complement her site-specific artworks; she creates works on paper that explore her artistic process further.