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Dreaming of July | Kiera-Grace

£800.00

Kiera-Grace
Dreaming of July, 2025
Acrylic, rhinestones and lace on paper
59.4 x 84.1 cm

Kiera-Grace is a British artist whose work explores memory and the ways it is shaped through cultural transmission, the body, and archival traces. Drawing on the unreliable and sentimental nature of recollection, she creates layered compositions that emulate the distortions and residues of remembering, often allowing fragments of image, texture, and gesture to drift between clarity and obscurity. Her practice is rooted in an interest in how histories are inherited, retold, and carried through both personal and collective experience.

Often centred on scenes within the Black British diaspora, Kiera-Grace employs oil paint, acrylic, collage, image transfer, and material imprints to build surfaces where narrative and movement accumulate over time. Distortion, layering, and repetition recur throughout her work, reflecting the unstable and adaptive qualities of memory itself. Working through a personal yet culturally resonant lens, she investigates how identity can be formed through archives, mythology, family histories, and embodied remembrance. Her paintings and mixed-media works frequently hold a quiet tension between nostalgia and progression, asking how we acknowledge inherited histories without becoming fixed within them. Through these processes, her work reflects on resilience, visibility, and the possibility of carrying memory forward while continuing to live with pride and agency in the present.

Kiera-Grace
Dreaming of July, 2025
Acrylic, rhinestones and lace on paper
59.4 x 84.1 cm

Kiera-Grace is a British artist whose work explores memory and the ways it is shaped through cultural transmission, the body, and archival traces. Drawing on the unreliable and sentimental nature of recollection, she creates layered compositions that emulate the distortions and residues of remembering, often allowing fragments of image, texture, and gesture to drift between clarity and obscurity. Her practice is rooted in an interest in how histories are inherited, retold, and carried through both personal and collective experience.

Often centred on scenes within the Black British diaspora, Kiera-Grace employs oil paint, acrylic, collage, image transfer, and material imprints to build surfaces where narrative and movement accumulate over time. Distortion, layering, and repetition recur throughout her work, reflecting the unstable and adaptive qualities of memory itself. Working through a personal yet culturally resonant lens, she investigates how identity can be formed through archives, mythology, family histories, and embodied remembrance. Her paintings and mixed-media works frequently hold a quiet tension between nostalgia and progression, asking how we acknowledge inherited histories without becoming fixed within them. Through these processes, her work reflects on resilience, visibility, and the possibility of carrying memory forward while continuing to live with pride and agency in the present.

Kiera Grace is a British artist whose work explores memory and the ways it is shaped through cultural transmission, the body, and archival traces. Drawing on the unreliable and sentimental nature of recollection, she creates layered compositions that emulate the distortions and residues of remembering.

Often centred on scenes within the Black British diaspora, her practice employs oil paint, acrylic, image transfer, and material imprints to build surfaces where fragments of narrative and gesture accumulate. Through these processes, her work reflects on how histories are carried forward and asks how we might acknowledge the past while continuing to live with pride in the present.