Claudia De Grandi

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About me

Biography

Born: 1966 Piracicaba, Sao Paulo, Brazil. Lives and works in the UK
Education: 2009: MA in Theory and Pracice in Transnational Art, University of the Arts, Camberwell/Chelsea, London 2008: BA Fine Art (Hons) Fine Art, University of Greenwhich 1989: BEd Physical Education (Hons) Methodist University of Piracicaba, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Exhibitions:

Solo Exhibitions:

2007: 'TropicaLand' Digital Moving Image installation at the Panic Room Gallery, Kent
2006: 'evoking dance' Site Specific Performance at the Winter Garden, Greenwich, London
2005: Site Specific installation for the Battle Abbey Performing Art Centre, Battle, E. Sussex

Group Exhibition:

2009: Indian Summer Exhibition, Hastings Museum, Hastings
2009: MA Group Exhibition, Camberwell College, Wilson Road, London
2008: The September Art Exhibition, Wadhurst, East Sussex
2008: Degree Show, Empire Gallery, Vyner Street, London
2008: Degree Show, Ashurst Studios, West Kent College Campus, Tonbridge, Kent
2007: BA Contemporary Drawing, West Kent College, Kent
2007: 'Nine Degrees' � BA group show, Chequer Mead Gallery, East Grinstead
2006: HND Final Show, Ashurst Studios, West Kent College, Tonbridge, Kent
2005: Studio Exhibition, Bayham Studios, Sandhurst, Kent

Entries:

2008: Jerwood Moving Image Award Competition

Artist Statement

Working mainly with the medium of painting and drawing I create a verbal-visual language that includes elements of eastern and western poetic expression. Calligraphic mark making and printing designs combined into a multicultural construct that portray a fluid reading of gesture, colour and subtle forms into the canvas and/or the paper. Contextually, this conveys historical and contemporary issues that address art history, globalisation and transnationalism.

Lately, as part of my MA in Visual and Transnational art, I have been researching the process of cultural exchange and multiculturalism influence on western visual art. This research project is about 'locating' the eastern approach to calligraphy and abstraction within the historiography of Brazilian concrete poetry.