Catriona Gray
II am a photographic artist working with slow processes exploring the physical nature of the photographic surface over time, using destruction and reconstruction. I use waste materials, packaging, wood, concrete, weeds, glue, stitching, soaking and burying.
I love mistakes, I love destruction, I love the unpredictability of alternative processes. I love when you can’t duplicate something.
I’m a Londoner and mother of 2 young children.
I studied Photography at Glasgow School of Art and have worked in photography for 26 years.
Current and Upcoming Shows
‘Incidental Abundance’ - solo show at Spring Up Gallery, Kentish Town, London
‘Symbiosis II’ - group show with London Alternative Photography Collective at Four Corners Gallery, Bethnall Green, London
‘The Entranced Essence’ - Selected for group show at RuptureXIBIT gallery, London
Past Awards and Exhibitions
2024 Awarded a grant to support my artistic practice from the Eaton Fund.
2024 Awarded funding for free space to run photography art workshops for the local community at Old Diorama Arts Centre, Camden
2024 Selected for group show Symbiosis at Hundred Years Gallery, Hoxton. Organised by London Alternative Photography Collective
2023 Selected for group show Lawless Imagination at RuptureXIBIT gallery, London
2023 Awarded first prize Abstract category for New York Center for Photographic Arts
2022-3 Writer contributor for 35mmc photography website
2022-3 - Attended Bloomsbury Beginnings, a business development course specifically aimed at mothers
2015 Winter Show at Rough Print Gallery
2015 My work was featured in magazine Open Central Asia
2015 I delivered a public talk about my work at House of Photography, Tashkent, Uzbekistan
2014 Affordable Art Fair
2014 Shortlisted for the Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize
2013 Joint show ‘Thomas & Paul End of Year Spectacular’
2013 Joint show ‘Connections Between People and Land’ at Oxford House, Bethnal Green
2004 Affordable Art Fair
2000 Runner up in Student category, AOP Awards