Grieve
Joe Grieve
(b. 1997 UK) holds a First-Class Honours Degree from the City & Guilds Art School in London. Grieve currently lives and works in London.
Grieve’s practice is grounded in sustained engagement with the natural world, approached not as subject matter alone but as an active field of forces and relations. Grieve’s Work attends to systems that operate beyond immediate visibility- electromagnetic currents, mycelial networks, and quantum behaviours - considering how these invisible structures underpin lived experience.
Working across expressive landscape and abstraction, his works are informed by a post-impressionist lineage while remaining resolutely contemporary in their inquiry. Intuitive mark-making and layered surfaces register both the physical memory of place and the sensory and energetic conditions that define it.
Rather than representing nature, Grieve’s work proposes painting as a site of translation, where scientific speculation, embodied perception, and spiritual resonance converge. His practice invites reflection on the unseen architectures that shape our relationship to the world, and on painting’s capacity to make those forces felt.
Education
2019 - 2022
2017
First Class Honours Degree from the City & Guilds Art School in London
Art Foundation Degree from the City & Guilds Art School in London
Exhibitions
Solo
2025
2024
2023
2022
2019
Help A Brother Out, Artisan Space, London
Group
2025
2025
2025
2024
2024
2024
2022
2022
2021
2019
Residents, Colstoun, Scotland
LBF Gallery LBF At The Lake II, Muskoka, Canada
Iteration, The Florence Trust, London
LBF Gallery LBF At The Lake, Muskoka, Canada
Apocolyptic Changes of State, BWG, London
BWG Art Unmasked, London
C&G Graduation Show, London - Acquired by The Nixon Collection
Into the Cosmere, BWG, London
C&G Group Show, Art Hill Gallery, London
Awards & Residencies
2022
2022
2022
Azores Residency
Blackwater Residency, Ireland
Colstoun Arts Residency, Scotland