Through making landscape paintings, Grieve finds himself engaging in reveries and nostalgia from remembered landscapes and experiences. They reference actual places merging poetic rural ideals, sometimes underpinned with fragments and marks from urban angles and the sound of the city. In bringing together these elements, Grieve celebrates the unique qualities of painting, constructing illusory spaces through mark-making and strokes of colour.

 

Using primary drawings and found imagery as starting points, these references go through a transformation as the paint takes on a life of its own; the act of painting and its vivacity being key to Grieve's practice. His approach is playful, and often relies on experimental mark making. However, Grieve's aim is to evoke emotions that relate to his experience. He creates work that simultaneously provides a space in which we feel engaged with the familiar, whilst also getting lost within the spectacle of abstract accidents.

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BIO

Joe Bennell 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 held his first Solo exhibition at the Artisan Space (2019). After graduating in 2021, Grieve held his first sell-out solo exhibition Somewhere Near Perception with BWG Gallery. Grieve held a large-scale 73 painting solo exhibition Between Place & Time with BWG Gallery (2023), and has featured artwork in multiple group exhibitions, most recently with lbf Contemporary in their Canadian Summer Show (2024). 2024 also saw Grieve hold a solo exhibition The Other Side at Scotland’s Colstoun Arts. Grieve is currently in negotiations for shows in the USA and Canada in 2025. Grieve attended the Blackwater Valley Residency in Ireland and Colston Artist Residency in Scotland (2022) and has undertaken residencies in Rhode Island, The Azores as well as upcoming residencies in the south of France and Australia. Grieve’s painting is held in collections globally, with artwork on 5 continents and in private collections in over 20 countries.