Audrey Grant

Biography: Audrey Grant grew up in Grangemouth and lives and works in Edinburgh. She is an award-winning painter whose practice includes drawing, photography, and installation. Grant trained at Leith School of Art before showing figurative work in Edinburgh from 2011 and at Panter and Hall, London where her most recent exhibition was Paradise in 2020. In 2019 Grant explored the complex nature of long-durational drawing for her collaboration, The Long Look: The Making of a Portrait with the National Galleries of Scotland.
Grant’s work has regularly been selected for the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition and the Royal Scottish Academy (RSA), Society of Scottish Artists (SSA) and Visual Arts Scotland (VAS) Open Exhibitions. She has won a number of awards including the Anne Redpath Award and the W. Gordon Smith Award at the VAS Open, and the Open Eye Gallery and Tatha Gallery exhibition prizes at the SSA Open. In the academic year 2023-24 she was Artist in Residence at the University of Stirling.
All of Grant’s work is underpinned by intellectual ideas derived from, and inspired by, poetry, literature, and philosophy.