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Grace Tobin explores the interdependence between human life and environment, abstracting forms to then reconstruct and challenge our sense of perspective.
Grace Tobin is a contemporary American painter, who has spent the last few years working in London. Through her works, Tobin investigates our relationships to the environments we inhabit and the way these connections impact our sense of self. Her practice circles the idea of space, documenting the physical and emotional impact it has on forming our identity.
The artist is interested in the semiotic value we place on our surroundings. She re-imagines how our space mirrors the psychological and physiological connections we create in our world.
Through her dream-like state of the work pared with graphic stylisation and repetitive patterns, Tobin questions the ways in which our environments display an inner narrative. This style and approach mirror the themes of imperfection and repetition in our lives and routines. She is particularly interested in how physical objects can build and hold emotional value over time to embody memories and a sense of self. What and how these objects and spaces are composed can tell us much about a personal state of being.
Along with her study of environments as made up of objects in the domestic setting, Tobin also considers how this embodiment of the psychological and physiological connections we create in our world can be expressed through abstracted figural and botanical forms.
The artist reconstructs and challenges our sense of space, subtracting material to present a segmented reality. Her work exhibits the speculative, contemplative moments in which we are formed, informed, and reminded by our surroundings over time.
Grace Tobin is a London-based painter, who graduated from the Royal College of Art in 2022. She previously studied fine art in Ohio, USA and Florence, Italy. She has exhibited internationally with Plain Gallery in Italy, Court Tree Collective in New York, as well as London Paint Club, Canopy Collections and Rhodes Contemporary Art in London.
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Works
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Exhibitions
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Project Room: Soft Voices
Grace Tobin 5 - 27 Apr 2024In this series, we see Tobin develop her instantly recognisable monochromatic style in an exploration of collected memories and emotional touchstones. Tobin brings us on a journey across a series...Read more -
Origins
Group Exhibition 1 Dec 2023 - 27 Jan 2024Paper is often the first medium an artist uses when developing their creative process or planning a larger scale piece. It is the works Origin, a sketch or scribble which...Read more
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News
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How Grace Tobin Uses Memory to Create Her Dreamscapes
Exploring Memory with Grace Tobin April 24, 2024Grace Tobin's ‘Soft Voices’ series serves as a profound exploration of memory, inviting viewers to embark on a journey through the corridors of recollection. Memory,...Read more -
Painting in Monochromic Colour.
Exploring The Monochromatic Use of Colour in Works by Grace Tobin, Cathy Tabbakh, Marius Seidlitz, Camille Cottier and Molly Brocklehurst. March 26, 2024When we speak about art with a monochromatic colour pallet, we often immediately think of works in black and white – much like our current...Read more -
RHODES Project Space
Introducing a new exhibition space within our Fitzrovia gallery September 2, 2023RHODES is excited to introduce Projects Space - a new exhibition space within our Fitzrovia gallery, dedicated to giving emerging artists the opportunity to showcase...Read more -
FEATURED ARTIST: GRACE TOBIN
CONTEMPORARY ARTIST GRACE TOBIN SPECIALISES IN A GRAPHICAL PAINTING STYLE. August 5, 2022RHODES is excited to introduce our newest artist, Grace Tobin . Grace Tobin is a British emerging contemporary artist with a passion for pattern, colour...Read more
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