Oona Grimes is a part-time lecturer in the Printmaking programme at the RCA, the Ruskin School of Drawing & Fine Art of Oxford University, and the University of the Arts.
Oona Grimes was educated at Norwich School of Art and the Slade School of Fine Art UCL. She is a compulsive drawer and story-teller. Working with books and multiples, etching and mixed media, she embraces redundant print processes; salvaging and recycling discarded and obsolete materials. Narratives gleaned from such diverse lives as William Bligh, Mary Bell, John Dee and Fred West are mapped and served up as cocktail-shaken distillations of individual and collective memory.
Selected recent exhibitions include:
So That I May Come Back, Danielle Arnaud contemporary art, 2010; Tatton Park Biennial, 2010; Rose-Red Empire, Danielle Arnaud contemporary art, 2009; Hidden Narratives, Graves Art Gallery Sheffield, 2009; Riddle Me, Danielle Arnaud contemporary art, 2008; Conversations With Angels, Danielle Arnaud contemporary art, 2007; Uncanny Tales, touring, 2003–7.
Recent publications include:
Sinclair, I. (2009) Hackney, That Rose-Red Empire, Hamish Hamilton
Grimes, O. and Sinclair, I. (2010) Postcards From the 7th Floor, Pighog Press