Lot 273 - Catherine Anyango Grunewald - Clean Yourself Up
Pencil and Charcoal on Paper
2022
A6 (10x15cm) Original Artwork
Signed on Verso
ARTIST INFO
About
Catherine Anyango Grünewald is a Swedish/Kenyan artist. She lives and works in Sweden, having moved from London where she taught for ten years at the Royal College of Art.
Her work uses drawing, film, sculpture and mise-en-scene devices to look at physical or domestic environments being disrupted by emotional, intangible phenomena. Her research focuses on drawing and the materiality of drawing tools to explore meaning, exploiting the physical properties of soap, pencil and eraser on paper to convey sensitive and complex themes. She exploits an excess of mark-making that scars her paper surface, paying homage to her subject whilst representing the violated body and providing evidence of her own artistic process. Her drawings are presented in series, in animations and in graphic novels. The process and labour invested in the work is a direct homage to the subjects, victims of violent domestic or institutional crimes.
Education
University College London 2006 - 2007
(Masters in English Literature: Issues in Modern Culture)
The Royal College of Art 2004 - 2006
(Masters in Visual Communication)
pass with distinction
Central St Martins 2001 - 2004 (BA Hons Graphic Design
and Illustration) - First Class Honours
Central St Martins 2000 - 2001 (Foundation) -Distinction
Select Exhibitions/Awards
2017
Graphic Witness, The Drawing Room, London
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2016
Exhibited, A+: 100 years of Graphic Communication by Women, Central Saint
Martins College of Art and Design, London UK
Exhibited, Prison Drawing Project 2016, Dean Road Prison, Scarborough, UK
Exhibited, Crying Out Loud: Ladies Room, Edwardian Cloakroom, Bristol
Exhibited, Comix Creatrix - Women making Comics, House of Illustration,
curated by Paul Gravett and Olivia Ahmad
Exhibited, Parts & Labor, Animate Projects, Derby QUAD
Exhibited, Wiener Festwochen 2016, curated by Lisl Ponger, Vienna, Austria
Exhibited, 3 881 days, Blank Lab Gallery, Cape Town Art Week, Cape Town
Gallery Representation
Riflemaker Gallery, London
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