Grace Mattingly's paintings are luminously bright and playful. Feminine and gender-neutral figures mingle with animals and creatures in a fantastical, atmospheric universe. Curvaceous landscapes are peppered with cowboy boots and heels, candles, and reptiles. The works exude a sunny warmth and intimacy, with their glowing, citrusy palette, that draws you closer, even whilst their scale is often life-size. Each mark is unrehearsed and dynamic, softly yet decisively applied in oil and watercolor mediums to slick surfaces on canvas, panel, and paper. The works reflect on themes of gender and sexuality, play and improvisation, and fantasy and the unconscious.
Grace Mattingly (b.1991, Chicago) is a London-based artist whose work has been shown internationally in solo and group exhibitions. She is currently working towards a solo with us in Spring 2025.
Solo exhibitions include: Monster Party, Arusha Gallery (Bruton, UK, 2024) Untitled Miami, Huxley Parlour Gallery, (Miami, US, 2022), Yellow Horses, Taymour Grahne (London, UK, 2022), and Secret Sunshines, (Arusha Gallery, Edinburgh, UK, 2021).
Group exhibitions include: Luminous Terrain, Atipografia, (Arzignano, IT, 2023), New Mythologies II, Huxley Parlour, (London, UK, 2022), Four Painters & A Photographer, Grove Berlin, (Berlin, DE, 2022), Intimacy, Taymour Grahne Projects, (London, UK, 2022), Internal Weather, Sid Motion Gallery, (London, UK, 2022), MAMA, Prior Art Space, (Berlin, DE, 2022), Coming In, Coming Out, Prior Art Space, (Berlin, DE, 2022), Dream On, Grove London, (London, UK, 2021), and A Chorus of Bodies, Liliya Gallery, (London, UK, 2021).
Mattingly has been featured in artist publications such as émergent magazine and Art Maze Mag and is a recipient of the Elizabeth Greenshields grant. She holds a BA in philosophy from Columbia University (2014) and an MA in painting from The Slade School of Fine Art (2021).
