Grace Currie: DASH's first HBSP Artist-in Residence

We were thrilled to welcome Grace Currie as our inaugural artist on DASH's new and pioneering Home-Based Situated Practice programme. In the residency spanning one month (February 2026), we welcomed Grace from her home-studio in North Shropshire.

The residency gave Grace the opportunty to develop a new piece of work which is included in the upcoming exhibition Troublemakers and Prophets: Elizabeth Allen and Other Visionary Artists to take place at Compton Verney from 28 March - 30 August 2026.

HBSP Residency January - February 2026

During the residency, Senior Curator Oli McCall and Folk Art Curator Ila Colley from Compton Verney joined members of the DASH team and artist (previous DASH trustee) Tanya Raabe-Webber at Grace's studio for an in-person visit whilst our Future Curators Programme partners enjoyed a virtual studio tour and Q&A with the artist.

Grace also participated in a 1-1 online mentorship session with artist Corinne, a disabled artist who makes work from their 2 by 1.5 metre artist studio space, their bed.

Digital Commission

Her film Grace Currie Magic Artist: Potions For My Animated Life was made in collaboration with filmmaker Aaron Child (Painted Life). It explores Currie's processes of making large-scale paintings from her home studio, and animating the stories, rituals and characters that influence and evolve from them. The title of the film references the alchemy of her paintings/potions that offer a portal to her autobiographical world.

The film was commissioned by DASH and Compton Verney.

You can hear an audio description of Grace's film with transcript via the Bloomberg Connects website and app.

Watch the film: Grace Currie Magic Artist: Potions For My Animated Life.

Exhibition at Compton Verney: Troublemakers and Prophets: Elizabeth Allen and Other Visionary Artists

Potions For My Animated Life is included in the new group exhibition Troublemakers and Prophets: Elizabeth Allen and Other Visionary Artists at Compton Verney (28 March - 30 August 2026). Below are some installation images that show Grace's film displayed in the second room of the exhibition which was thematically called 'The End of Nowhere.' The film is shown on a loop for the duration of the exhibition, and visitors are offered comfortable bespoke seating designed for the show.

Troublemakers and Prophets features work by

Elizabeth Allen, Eleanor May Watson, Helen Chadwick, George Storm Fletcher, Lou Lou Sainsbury, Grace Currie Magic Artist, Uma Breakdown, Louise Odes Neaderland, Lily van Oost, Sian Newlove-Drew, Jesse Jones, Penny Slinger, Mireille Delice, Suzanne Treister, Saroj Patel, Rebecca Nassauer, Grace Ndiritu, Aradne and the Rita Keegan Archive Project (with patchwork contributions by Ego Ahaiwe Sowinski, Ajamu, Charlie and Kate Boxer, Pat Brown, Althea Greenan, Catherine Grant, Joy Gregory, Anna Harding, Hiroko Hagiwara, Zhi Holloway, Terry Humphrey, Bhajan Hunjan, Symrath Kaur Patti, Amoke Kubat, Samia Malik, Ruth E. Morgan, Virginia Nimarkoh, Georgina Obaya Evans, Elizabeth Oniri, Ingrid Pollard and Olive Pollard, Raju Sachi Singh, Michelle Williams Gamaker, Jacqueline Wright, Keegan Xavi, Rehana Zaman).

EVENT

In Conversation:
Creative Practice in the Home

Saturday 9 May 2026
2pm – 3.30pm

Join the artist Grace Currie, Creative Producer at DASH, Lucy Mounfield and the curator of Troublemakers and Prophets, Ila Colley to discuss the exhibited artwork and Grace’s experiences of a creative practice within the home, and how this relates to Elizabeth Allen.

This is a hybrid event; attend in person at Compton Verney, and join in remotely via Zoom.

Event schedule:
2pm - 2:05pm Settling In
2:05pm - 2:15pm Welcome, introductions and housekeeping
2:15pm - 2:35pm In-conversation with Ila Colley and Lucy Mounfield (in-person)
2:35pm - 2:40pm 5-minute BREAK
2:40pm - 2:45pm Screening of Potions For My Animated Life + visual description of installation at Compton Verney
2:45pm - 3:10pm In-conversation with Grace Currie (Grace will be online)
3:10pm - 3:15pm 5-minute BREAK
3:15pm - 3:30pm Audience Q&A and close

Find out more and book tickets here

Content Warning:
This event may include a discussion of a road traffic accident and include details of a brain injury and other related physical injuries. It may touch on themes such as hospitalisation, pain and medication.

Grace Currie Magic Artist: Potions For My Animated Life has been commissioned by DASH and Compton Verney and generously supported using public funding by Arts Council England, the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art and Compton Verney.

A dark room with a woman in dark clothing is wearing headphones. She is watching a screen showing Grace seated in her studio and drinking a cup of tea. An image to the right is lit up on the wall

A dark gallery space with white doorway to the right. At the centre of the image is a plinth like structure as part of a seat. On it ate a pair of black boots. They are in silhouette against a screen on the far wall, showing Grace working in her studio.

A dark gallery space with an artwork on the wall to the left. Two people wear headphones and look towards a large angular screen depicting one of Grace's painted art works form lockdown; The back of Netty.

A black gallery wall with framed artwork to the right. To the left in white text on the wall are four paragraphs of text about the artist and their work. Above in very large turquoise green handwriting in capitals reads; (THIS END OF NOWHERE)

Artist Update

16 April 2026

Grace has been working on a new large-scale painting in response to a photograph taken on a recent studio visit from Heather Peak and Tanya Raabe-Webber. Tanya has been visiting Grace on a weekly basis to provide one-to-one support. Take a look at the work in progress, and the process Grace uses to transfer the image to canvas using acetate and projector.