Staff Profile

Introduction

My work as artist and curator broadly investigates ways language and narrative are used to make sense of the world around us, and how narratives in turn generate worlds of their own. Subjective personal readings and constructions of the world and ways that these might achieve social political and cultural expression are central concerns of my work, alongside a focus on the ways new technologies are both the subject and site of these emergent narratives.

Research Interests

The primary focus is on narratives and fictions in contemporary visual culture -both as an artist and curator - How they are used both to understand the world and model potentialities. The focus is on the subjective and the belief system as sites of opposition to hegemonic capital and commodity, and as a response to the discourses of modernity and enlightenment rationality.

Other Expertise

Artist Curator Writer

Current Work

WSIN. 3D Modelling, Motion Tracking, Digital animation Video Installation, Augmented Reality and sculptural project exploring boundaries between animate and inanimate matter in the 'natural' world

After the Rain. Modelling and representing future landscapes and emergent entities in Digital media, Unreal Engine as well as Fine Art 2D Media including ink drawing and oil panting.

• Artefacts

  • Grayson R. Nothing Can Stop Us Now. London, UK: Dilston Grove/Matt's Gallery, 2014.
  • Grayson R. The Magpie Index. The Magpie Index is a video installation made up of an assemblage of monologues by singer songwriter Roy Harper, where he narrates his history, and his development as a musician and as a leading figure of the sixties and seventies counter-culture in the UK. De La Warr Pavilion. Locus +, 2010.
  • Grayson R. The Golden Space City of God. A video work developed at the International Residency Program at ArtPace San Antonio Texas and Matts Gallery London. The project received funding from ArtPace Residency Program, The Arts Council of Great Britain, The Art and Humanities Research Council, the Elephant Trust, The Henry Moore and Esmee Fairbairn Foundations. The Golden Space City of God investigates the cultural artifact as a carrier and shaper of group and social belief. The research developed a creative context to allow collaborations between artist, composer, choir, choir leader, director and sound designer, to be the central generative dynamic. San Antonio, Texas; London: ArtPace; Matts Gallery, 2009.

• Articles

  • Grayson RM. Nigel Greenwood Ltd. Running a picture Gallery. Art Monthly UK 2016, 398.
  • Grayson R. Their Generation. Post Internet Art and its constructions. Art Monthly UK 2015, (389).
  • Grayson R. An internet of things. Broadsheet Magazine 2015, 44(1), 75-78.

• Book Chapters

  • Grayson R. If It Was A Going Concern. In: Grayson, R, ed. Worlds In Collision. Adelaide Festival of the Arts Australia, 2014, pp.111.
  • Grayson R, Wainwright J, Rees S, Won J. Shaun Gladwell: Cycles of Radical Will. In: Jane Won, ed. Shaun Gladwell:Cycles of Radical Will. UK: De La Warr Pavillion, 2013, pp.144.

• Digital or Visual Media

  • Grayson R. Possessions_inc. London: Matt's Gallery, 2019. 36 episodes posted each month over three years.
  • Grayson R. The Magic Mountain. 2017.
  • Grayson R. Cosmic Joke. Sydney: University of Technology Sydney Gallery, 2015. Hi Def Video installation: Stereo Sound. 25mins duration.

• Edited Book

  • Grayson R, ed. Worlds In Collision. Adelaide International, 2014.

• Exhibitions

  • Brown I, Anderson F, Bam R, Bromwich N, Burton A, Castle A, Clay R, Coupe J, Cuddon K, Easton T, Falecka K, Fox N, Grayson R, Hagan L, Huber C, Jones C, Juler E, Kennedy B, Kogelsberger U, Meikle G, Merrick P, Mieves C, Millican J, Moonie S, Pollard I, Pollock V, Servin E, Shaw T, Smith O, Szemán P, Talbot R, Tofield T, Weeks H, Weileder W, Wilson L, Wilson J. Mirror Neurons: group exhibition of all artists / staff of the Fine Art department, Newcastle University, curated by Alistair Robinson and Harriet Sutcliffe. 2024. Newcastle University: Hatton Gallery, 2.
  • Grayson R. By Our Own Hand. 2018. London: Nine Elms.
  • Grayson R. HYPERactive. 2017. Canberra, Australia: Canberra Contemporary Art Space, 1. In Preparation.
  • Grayson R. Drawing Biennale 2017. 2017. London, UK: Drawing Room, 1.
  • Grayson R. The Horizontal Within, The Horizontal Without. 2017. Lubomirov/Angus-Hughes, London, 1. Submitted.
  • Grayson R. Vordemberge-Gildewart Award. 2016. London, UK: Annely Juda Gallery, 13.
  • Grayson R. Speech Acts. 2015. Sydney Australia: University of Technology Gallery, 5.
  • Grayson R. Worlds In Collision: 2014 Adelaide Festival, Adelaide International Art Exhibition. 2014. Adelaide, Australia: Adelaide Festival.
  • Grayson R. Revolver. 2012. London: Matt's Gallery, 10.
  • Grayson R. Polytechnic. A curatorial project focusing on video, installation and tape/slide work made in the UK in the late seventies and early eighties. Staged at the Raven Row Gallery, London, it featured 12 artists: John Adams, Ian Bourn, Ian Breakwell, Marc Camille Chaimowicz, David Critchley, Catherine Elwes, Roberta Graham, Steve Hawley, Susan Hiller, Stuart Marshall, Cordelia Swann and Graham Young. 2010. London: Raven Row.
  • Grayson RM, and others. This Will Not Happen Without You The first curated exhibition from the archives of Locus +. 2006. John Hansard Gallery, Southampton, 21.11.2006 – 20.01.2007; Hatton Gallery, Newcastle 09.02.2007 – 31.03.2007; The Gallery, University of Ulster, Belfast Campus, 27.09.2007 – 27.10.2007, 200+.
  • Grayson RM. A Secret Service: Art Compulsion Concealment, A curated exhibition with catalogue. 2006. Hatton Gallery Newcastle, 17/9/06-11/11/06, De La Warre Pavilion Bexhill on Sea 27/1/07-15/4/07, Whitworth Gallery Manchester 5/5/07-29/7/07: Hatton Gallery, De La Warre Pavilion , Whitworth Gallery.
  • Grayson RM. Messiah. Two Screen Video Installation. 1hr 10 mins. 2004. 1.
  • Grayson RM. (The World May Be) Fantastic Sydney Biennale 2002. 2002. Sydney: Museum of Modern Art, over 400 works.