Catriona Gray
I 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.
I pledge to respect the environment by making my work as eco-sustainable as possible, and to respect people by being inclusive in my workshops.
Current and Upcoming Shows
8th - 31st January 2025 - Group exhibition ‘Abstract’ at Glasgow Gallery of Photography
24th October - 23rd November 2024 - Group exhibition ‘Changing Horses Midstream’ at Hypha, Euston, London
Past Awards and Exhibitions
2024 (May) ‘Incidental Abundance’ - solo show at Spring Up Gallery, Kentish Town, London
2024 (May) ‘Symbiosis II’ - group show with London Alternative Photography Collective at Four Corners Gallery, Bethnall Green, London
2024 (May) ‘The Entranced Essence’ - Selected for group show at RuptureXIBIT gallery, London
2024 - (June) Awarded 2 grants from the Coward Foundation supporting my personal analogue practice, as well as enabling me to run free community workshops for under 25s in Camden
2024 (March) Awarded a grant to support my artistic practice from the Eaton Fund
2024 (Jan) Selected for group show Symbiosis at Hundred Years Gallery, Hoxton. Organised by London Alternative Photography Collective
2023 (Nov) 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 - Awarded an assisted place on 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