Grant Foster
"By layering my own freehand drawings over pre-existing colouring book pages, I create moments of visual synchronicity. This process extends my interest in Surrealist strategies that disrupt, challenge, and destabilise systems of logic, order, and control. Drawing, for me, is an act of freedom, and this openness allows a wide range of motifs to emerge. These include St Francis—the compassionate saint—a dinosaur positioned beneath the schematics of a military shirt, and self-portraits clad in fetish wear. Together, these seemingly disparate elements create a collision between intention and chance. Through free association, the works become analogue points of contact within a multidimensional and irreverent exploration of the world." (Grant Foster, 2026)
Grant Foster (b.1982, Worthing), is a London based artist who completed a MA in Painting at the Royal College of Art in 2012. Foster’s selected solo exhibitions include: Home to My Teenage Bedroom, Phoenix Artspace Brighton, (2025); Human Made, Exeter Phoenix Gallery, UK (2024); Open to You, Art Lacuna, London (2022); I’m Not Being Funny, Lychee One, London (2019); Trade Gallery, Nottingham (2018); Ground, Figure, Sky, Tintype Gallery, London (2017); Popular Insignia Galleria Acappella, Naples (2016), Salad Days, Ana Cristea Gallery, New York (2015); Holy Island, Chandelier Projects, London (2014).
In 2019 he was International Randall Chair at Alfred University, New York, in 2016 Grant Foster was Fellow in Contemporary Art with The BritishSchool at Rome and in 2007 he was a Prizewinner in John Moores 25. Grant is currently a mentor on The Turps Banana painting program and founding member of audio/visual recording project in a skull.
Selected group exhibitions include: Open Odyssey (Hastings Contemporary), Hastings, UK, (2026); Magpie’s Eye, Hampshire, UK (2025); Funeral, Kingsgate Project Space, London (2025); Somatechnics, The Tagli,London (2024); Standing Ground, Thames-side Gallery, London, (2024); Dancing About Architecture, Hypha Studios, London (2024); 10 Years, Lychee One Gallery, London, (2024); A Painting Show, Staffordshire St Gallery, London (2024); Tell Me Everything You Saw and What You think it Means, w/ Piers Alsop, Tagli Projects, Cromwell Place, London (2024); …freshly as if my eye was still growing, APT Gallery, London (2023); Gutug, Asylum, Suffolk, UK (2023); Scared Back Into Y(our) Body (w/Jamie Fitzpatrick), ASC Gallery London,(2021); Your Foot in my Face and other tectonic strategies, Kingsgate Gallery, London, (2021), When you Waked up The Buffalo, Mihai Nicodim, Los Angeles, (2020); Exeter Contemporary Open, Exeter Phoenix, Exeter,(2019), 1d For Abroad, Tintype Gallery, London (2019); The Book of Dreams, Chapel on The Green, Wales, (2019), Blemish and Beyond, New Art Projects, London, (2019); A Stone in the Mountain (w/Georgia Hayes),Transition Gallery, London, (2018); Frivolous Convulsions, Turf Projects, London, (2108); You see me like a UFO, Marcelle Joesph Projects, London (2017); Mostra, British School at Rome, Rome (2016); Carnival Glass,Block 336, London (2015); Figuratively Speaking (curated by Marcelle Joseph), Heike Moras Art, London (2015);The Threadneedle Prize 2014: Figurative Art Today (Curated Space by Sacha Craddock), Mall Galleries, London(2014); Rx for Viewing (with Jesse Wine), Ana Cristea Gallery, New York (2014); Bloomberg New Contemporaries, Spike Island, Bristol and ICA, London (2013); Implausible Imposters, Ceri Hand Gallery, London(2013); Backwards Man, CGP London (2012); Memory of a Hope, Ceri Hand Gallery, Liverpool (2011); Between a Hole and a Home, James Taylor Gallery, London (2010); John Moores 25, Liverpool (2008).