About:
Octavia Greig, (B. 2000, London ) is an English-American artist raised in London and recent graduate of the BA: Fine Art: Painting at Camberwell College of Art. After graduating she relocated her practice to Mexico City at the start of September 2023. For the past 6 months she has been living and making art work inspired by the streets of Mexico. In April 2024, she will begin her Artist residency at Time Square Space in New York City.
Since moving to Mexico City her artwork has transformed with colorful and enigmatic depictions of its streets, a constant source of inspiration. Her paintings are an observation of the urban landscape, how people navigate the city, streets and urban spaces. With the camera as a tool to capture the world, her street photography is the starting point for her artwork.
From photographs she creates unique compositions and narratives by digitally collaging her compositions which are then physically transferred into drawings, paintings, and then layers of intricate photographic collaging. Through this process, she constructs a distinct sense of place, setting and atmosphere. Her compositions feel simultaneously familiar and transformed, like encountering the same people and streets in an altered reality. Her paintings serve as a visual diary of the people and places she has encountered while navigating her surroundings, capturing fleeting moments of the everyday that are often overlooked and slip from memory amidst life’s bustle.
Predominantly working with oil paint she incorporates her photographic compositions through detailed collaging on the canvas, further adding an extra layer of complexity to her work creating visual confusion through these different textures and mediums. She also likes to work from found objects and materials she sees on the streets, with photography, collage and painting always as the key to bind her creation together.
Exhbitions
Royal Drawing School Foundation Show - 2019
Half Way - APT Gallery, 2022
Altar/Alter- Southwark Park Galleries 2023
Camberwell Collage of art BA Graduates Show - 2023
Lux Feminae "Echoes in `Color" - Mexico City, Casa Jarana -2023
Fundation Maceta " Suit No1" Mexico city , Balderas 95 - 2024
Caleta- "Exposición/ Estudios Abiertos" - Dr Alt 62,Santa Maria Ribera CDMX - 2024