HBSP Artist-in-Residence Announced

DASH are delighted to announce Grace Currie as the first DASH Home Based Situated Practice (HBSP) Artist-in-Residence. This residency is in collaboration with Compton Verney, Warwickshire and forms the pilot to DASH’s Home Based Situated Practice programme.

The residency with DASH and Compton Verney will run from 12 January - 15 February 2026 culminating in a new digital commission to be included in the exhibition Troublemakers and Prophets: Elizabeth Allen and other visionary artists (28 March - 31 August 2026) at Compton Verney, Warwickshire.

Grace Currie Biography:

Grace Currie is an emerging artist based in Shropshire in the West Midlands, originally from Manchester.

In 2020 Grace graduated from Chester University School of Art with a First-Class Honours degree in Fine art. Her powerful and huge figurative paintings in her Final Show, The Identity Series, invite you into her world to meet its strange inhabitants - more or less human - clearly on the way to the same anarchic party.

In 2010, aged 17, Grace’s life hung by a thread after a serious traffic accident resulted in severe brain injury leaving her with interrelating disabilities and a neurodivergent view of the world. Her work often uses these to challenge viewers; to reflect her resistance to the reductive label ‘disabled’ or the disorientating sense of the fractured self that 24/7 care engenders.

Grace has exhibited nationally at HOME Gallery, Manchester; The Hive, Shrewsbury; The Qube Gallery, Oswestry; Level Centre, Rowsley, where she was the 1st Prize Winner; a recent solo exhibition at Contemporary Arts Space (CASC) Chester and Castlefield Gallery, Manchester’s partner gallery space in 2024. In 2025 Grace has had exhibitions at HOME Gallery, Level Centre, Shrewsbury Art Gallery and a solo exhibition ‘In and Out of Grace (oh, it’s what you do to me)’ at Gateway Gallery, Shrewsbury. https://gracecurrie.art/

About the HBSP programme

Home Based Situated Practice (HBSP) is a year-round virtual residency, commissioning programme and peer-support network conceived and delivered by DASH to nurture, mentor and platform artists who work from home or at a studio space nearby to home.

HBSP will offer 1-month supported virtual residencies for contemporary visual artists who encounter access barriers to ‘traditional’ in-person opportunities offered by brick-and-mortar galleries. Each residency will include opportunity for exhibitions, residencies, commissions, artist development and mentorship support.

For more information about HBSP programme and the collaboration with Compton Verney, please visit the HBSP project page.

HBSP is generously supported using public funding by Arts Council England, the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art and Compton Verney, Warwickshire.